Global status in 2025

The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 places SDG 12 among the goals with 40–42 per cent of measurable targets off track, noting rising fossil-fuel subsidies and insufficient progress on waste reduction and sustainable resource management.

Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025.

European and Albanian context

The EU's circular-economy agenda and the ESRS/CSRD reporting regime are converting responsible consumption from voluntary practice into compliance expectation. For a services organisation, the material levers are procurement choices, paper use and the integrity of published sustainability claims.

NOVARIC® implementation commitments

  • Operate paperless-first workflows across recruitment, training and administration.
  • Source PEFC-certified paper and materials wherever physical procurement is unavoidable.
  • Apply the Responsible Procurement Standard, including supplier sustainability assessment, to all significant purchasing.
  • Enforce anti-greenwashing claims discipline: every public sustainability statement must be specific, evidenced and verifiable.

Key performance indicators

Measured through the Manual's 90-indicator register (browse the full register):

  • ENV-05 Paperless workflow coverage
  • ENV-07 Certified-materials share
  • SUP-01 Supplier assessments completed
  • GOV-13 Claims-substantiation review pass rate
Case study — from the Manual, Part III

NOVARIC®'s anti-greenwashing protocol requires every public sustainability claim to be logged with its evidence source before publication. Claims that cannot be substantiated to the defined standard are withdrawn — the same discipline this website is held to.

Related framework

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