E
Environmental Impact & Innovation
Your outcomes for climate and nature.
- Carbon intensity & transition planning
- Nature & biodiversity
- Environmental innovation
- Climate & nature risk management
The EARTH Framework. Evaluating Adaptable Responsible Tomorrow-focused Harmony.
A structured way to evaluate how an organization affects the environment, its people and its own future, across every industry, measured on one scale and built on evidence.
A
Adaptability & Resilience
Your ability to absorb shocks and change course, including how you manage risk across your value chain.
- Business model flexibility
- Supply chain resilience & due diligence
- Crisis management & continuity
- Future-proofing
R
Resource Stewardship
How you manage the materials, energy, water and waste that flow through your operations.
- Material efficiency & circularity
- Energy management
- Water stewardship
- Waste management
T
Team & Community Wellbeing
How you treat the people in your own operations and the communities around them.
- Employee development
- Work quality & wellbeing
- Community impact
- Human rights & fair treatment
H
Holistic Prosperity
Economic durability, the value you create for stakeholders, your social return, and how you're governed.
- Financial health
- Stakeholder value
- Long-term value
- Social impact
- Governance & accountability
How scoring works
Every metric converts to the same 0–100 scale. Metric scores average into areas, areas into pillars, and the five pillars, each worth 20%, into your overall score.
Measured metrics
Score against five thresholds, with partial credit between them.
Practice metrics
Score by level: None, Committed, Written, In practice, Checked.
0–39
Needs Improvement
40–59
Developing
60–74
Progressing
75–89
Advanced
90–100
Industry Leading
The rules that make a score trustworthy
No documented monitoring, no points.
Two kinds of zero: no evidence, or measured.
Not applicable means excluded, never zero, and every N/A needs a written reason.
Self-assessed and verified are always labeled. Only a verified score may be presented publicly.
Two depths
EARTH Core
42 metrics, one measured result and one practice per area. Built for small and mid-sized organizations and nonprofits.
EARTH Full
Every metric in the framework, for the complete picture.
Sector variants add sector-specific measures on top of either depth. The first, for food security and food sovereignty, is in development.
Built to work with the standards you already report to.
EARTH is independent, and it aligns with the frameworks your stakeholders already recognize, so your evidence works twice.
- GHG Protocol
- IFRS S1 / S2 (ISSB)
- GRI
- ESRS
- TNFD
- ISO 22301
- ISO 45001
- UN Guiding Principles
- ILO core labour standards
- IRIS+
- Social Value International