Tools

The Ideas Compass is a web-based tool, where small and medium-sized companies can find inspiration to innovate and evolve. The focus of the website is on CSR-driven innovation (corporate social innovation - CSI) – an innovation process focusing on current social and environmental needs which gives companies an opportunity to develop sustainable products or services.

Doing good business and doing good for the world need not be mutually exclusive. In fact more and more companies are making the world's problems their business. The Ideas Compass aims to help companies realise their particular potential.

The Ideas Compass was launched in 2010 and is run by the Danish Business Authority under the Ministry of Business and Growth. The tool was developed with support from Region Zealand, the Nordic Innovation Centre and TrygVesta.

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The Climate Compass is a web-based tool that offers inspiration in terms of preparing a climate strategy to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Compass can help you calculate your company’s carbon footprint, preparing a climate strategy and reducing emissions and costs.

The tool was created in cooperation with The Confederation of Danish Industry.

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The People and Profit guide was made to help prepare small and medium-sized companies for working with voluntary environmental and social issues.

The guide is a reference guide and a workbook which allows your business to:

• Identify the CSR activities which are strategically relevant to your business in particular
• Find out more about the relevant activities
• Find guidelines and inspiration for getting started.

• Read the guide (PDF)
• Visit the People and Profit website

Take your company’s UN Global Compact temperature! Using the Global Compact Self Assessment Tool you can go through a simple self-assessment to find out how your company is doing in all areas of the UN Global Compact. The tool is designed for companies who are committed to upholding basic social and environmental standards in their operations.

The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool is a partnership between the Danish Ministry of Business and Growth (the then Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs), The Confederation of Danish Industry, The Danish Institute for Human Rights – Human Rights and Business Project, The Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries and the UN Global Compact.

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