Assent Releases 2024 Sustainability Report Breaking New Ground in Climate, Equity, and Governance

Business Wire

22-04-2025

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Assent Inc., the leader in supply chain sustainability management, today released its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report, showcasing a year of meaningful progress backed by AI-powered sustainability insights. Assent enhanced climate action, inclusive leadership, and ethical governance while uniting responsible environmental practices and robust business accountability.
The report is centered around the core belief that investing in people contributes to stronger business and long-term global impact. In 2024, Assent made bold strides to turn that belief into action. Alongside major steps like achieving full pay equity and expanding leadership development, the company also deepened its investment in responsible innovation. By embedding AI-driven insights into supplier data and risk management, Assent's leaders are enhancing the customer experience and accelerating progress on its mission to bring responsible products to the world — while laying the foundation for long-term, sustainable growth.
'Our corporate sustainability journey starts with people,' said Keira Torkko, Chief People Officer and Chief of Staff at Assent. 'When our team feels valued, empowered, and united by a shared purpose, innovation thrives, customer trust grows, and our collective impact expands across communities, partners, and the planet. We're building more than a company. We're creating a workplace and a world where responsible innovation, inclusion, and integrity aren't just aspirations; they are expectations.'
Assent's 2024 sustainability report highlights include:
Achieving Pay Equity Milestone: Achieved a 1:1 pay equity ratio, reinforcing Assent's commitment to fair compensation and gender equity across all operations.
Strengthening Information Security & Compliance: Earned ISO 27001 certification and maintained a strong SOC 2 Type II audit outcome, underscoring Assent's rigorous approach to data privacy, risk management, and information security.
Scope 3 Reductions: Introduced new travel guidelines to help reduce Scope 3 emissions and initiated early-stage supplier engagement on climate targets — recognizing that collective action across the supply chain is essential — and reduced Scope 3 emissions intensity from the previous year, reflecting Assent's commitment to engaging suppliers, improving data quality, and advancing decarbonization across its value chain.
As part of its leadership in the sustainability space, Assent voluntarily aligned its reporting with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), demonstrating transparency and accountability to the same standards it helps its customers meet.
Powered by AI at every level of the business, Assent is the only company that unifies platform, people, and supplier intelligence to future-proof supply chains amid global disruption. AI was used in the aggregation and normalization of data to enable clearer reporting on our climate performance, while additional AI tools are leveraged to track and interpret global sustainability regulations, including CSRD, CSDDD, GRI, and IFRS S2 disclosure requirements. Moving forward, Assent will blend insights from its regulatory and sustainability experts with AI models to identify high-risk suppliers based on geographic, operational, and industry factors to empower its sustainability reporting.
To view the full 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report, visit: https://www.assent.com/company/sustainability/
About Assent Inc.
Assent provides the leading supply chain sustainability management solution and is on a mission to become the global platform of record for supply chain sustainability and compliance for complex manufacturers. Founded in 2010, Assent is the only company that unifies platform, people, and supplier intelligence to future-proof supply chains amid global disruption. Powered by AI, we enable faster, smarter compliance — from predictive risk analysis to automated document review — while delivering unmatched speed, cost efficiency, and confidence. With a proprietary supplier engagement engine and deep regulatory expertise built into our platform and services, Assent helps customers navigate complexity, reduce risk, and accelerate growth.