14 April 2025
More and more companies are asking: can a third-party environmental certification help with sustainability reporting—especially in light of the new EU requirements? The short answer is: yes.
The HI label (Hållbar Interiör’s third-party certification) can be used in different ways depending on where you are in your sustainability journey. It can serve as a clear milestone in an action plan, as proof of achieved sustainability goals, or as a practical guide to ensure you’re moving in the right direction.
To better understand how a certification like HI can be integrated into your sustainability reporting, it’s helpful to look at it from three key perspectives:
1. The Internal Perspective:
How does certification impact our own sustainability efforts? Which parts of the process—such as material choices, circularity, or social responsibility—can we highlight as concrete actions in our sustainability report?
2. The Value Chain:
How are our customers and suppliers affected by our certification? The HI label becomes a tool for setting clearer requirements both upstream and downstream, helping to strengthen sustainability throughout the entire value chain.
3. The Financial Dimension:
How does certification influence our company’s valuation and contractual agreements? A third-party environmental label demonstrates that our sustainability work is serious, structured, and independently verified—something that can carry weight in investor assessments and public procurement processes.
Want to hear more?
In a panel discussion from Dagens Industri’s webcast Sustainable Business – What Happens After Omnibus?, three experts discuss how third-party certification can support a company’s sustainability reporting. Listen to Emilia Hagberg (Head of Sustainability, Specialfastigheter), Per Callenberg (Head of Sustainable Business Development, Sveaskog), and Sara Lindahl (Sustainable Finance, Danske Bank) as they reflect on these three perspectives.
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