Dagmar Klamminger  |  Policy consulting and project development

A clear starting point for circular action

Green Score is the core concept for an assessment tool being developed through consulting and project development. Used at the first stage of Circular Ecosystem Management, it establishes the sustainability and circularity baseline of a company, organization or other actor before defining a Circularity Objective.

Why Green Score

Circular action needs a clear starting point. Green Score brings existing practices, strengths and gaps into one profile, helping actors identify where they can contribute and where cooperation is needed. Green Score provides a graduated assessment of how far a company, organisation or other actor has developed in sustainability and circularity. Rather than assigning a simple “sustainable or not” or “circular or not” label, it makes different levels of development visible across the assessment areas. It identifies existing strengths, areas for improvement and a starting point for circular action. Repeated assessments show how this position changes over time.

Green Score assesses how far companies, public institutions, NGOs and political actors have developed in sustainability and circularity, taking their different roles into account. Alongside resource use, lifecycle impacts and circular practices, it considers how actors enable circularity through policy, organisational decisions, advocacy, education, funding and cooperation. The assessment reflects each actor’s responsibilities and scope for action, making both direct practices and contributions to wider circular change visible.

What it looks at

Companies
Lifecycle impacts, resource and energy use, durability, repairability, reuse and material cycles, alongside transparency and cooperation with other actors.

Organisations and public institutions
How circularity is embedded in procurement, infrastructure, everyday operations and organisational decisions, including responsibilities, staff involvement and cooperation.

NGOs and civil society organisations
How advocacy, education, community initiatives and practical activities support circularity, enable participation and connect actors, alongside the organisation’s own resource use.

Political actors and policymakers
How policies, funding, regulation and public investment create conditions for circularity, including coordination, equitable participation and implementation.

Across these actor groups, Green Score assesses the degree of development in relation to each actor’s role and responsibilities, using transparent evidence and repeated assessment to make change visible.

Green Score  →  Circularity Objective  →  CEco Management

The baseline informs the Circularity Objective. CEco Management then connects the actors, contributions and conditions needed to achieve that objective across the ecosystem.

From practical use to a scalable tool

Initial use in CEco Management will collect anonymous data to evaluate and refine the core concept. This practical evidence will inform the final Green Score and a project design for scaling it up. The tool will therefore develop from real application. Repeated assessments using comparable scope and criteria will show development over time.

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