Our commitment to ESG

ESG
ESG

The healthcare sector is responsible for about 4,4% of greenhouse gas emissions and 5 million tons of waste worldwide each year. Although healthcare is meant to improve health, the current significant impact on the environment creates a paradox. 

As a leading distributor of medical solutions in Europe, Duomed plays an important role between production and consumption. Our unique position gives us the opportunity to make the healthcare market more sustainable. We are committed to taking responsible business action to break this healthcare paradox and create the healthier and more sustainable world we all want.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Since March 2023, Duomed Group is a proud member of the United Nations Global Compact, aligning our operations and strategy with their 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Within our 3 ESG pillars below, we contribute to 7 topics of their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For the assessment and management of our sustainability practices, we plan to work with the EcoVadis platform. EcoVadis will help us manage ESG risk and compliance, meet our corporate sustainability goals, and drive impact at scale by guiding the sustainability performance improvement of our company.

We are proud to have attained EcoVadis certification for Duomed France Endoscopie (Gold), Duomed France Solutions (Bronze) and Duomed Scandinavia (Gold) and aim for certification for Duomed Group by 2024.

ESG Pillars

Duomed Belgium

Sustainability and corporate responsibility drive our business and are an integral part of everything we do. We are committed every day to making our contribution by conducting our business activities in a sustainable manner. In 2022, sustainability was officially defined as one of Duomed Belgium's four strategic milestones. Reducing our ecological footprint is an ambitious goal that must be achieved not only by the company, but also by each employee.

Since 2023, we aim to obtain EcoVadis certification to improve our sustainability practices - environmental, social and ethical. We have set ourselves a number of internal concerns and guidelines. Where applicable, these measures are also included in the processes and work instructions of the quality management system, which is ISO-13485 certified.

Green deal

Green Deal Duurzame Zorg

Duomed is one of the signatories of the Green Deal Duurzame Zorg (Sustainable Care). With more than 150 partners, we are committed to using concrete actions to make the healthcare sector more sustainable and to share knowledge.

The Duurzame Zorg Green Deal defines five overarching objectives:
• Make the care and social support sectors more sustainable

• Promote the ‘One Health’ principle
• Establishment of a learning network
• Improve knowledge of sustainable care and well-being
• Develop coherent and harmonized policies that promote sustainability in the care and social assistance sector.

Green deal Signs

Aside to our own efforts, we also work closely together with our suppliers to find new and innovative solutions to reduce and find more sustainable packaging and product materials. We encourage our partners to put sustainability high on the agenda, we promote ISO 14001 and FSC certification* (some are already certified) and ECO-label and encourage them to set goals for how they will reduce their carbon footprint and contribute to a circular economy model.

We want to help accelerate the transition to more sustainable healthcare. Therefore, in collaboration with the ‘Green Care Academy’, we organize webinars for Green Teams in the Belgian hospital sector, during which the following points are discussed in detail:

• Explain the concept of Green Team

• Green Deal and good practices in healthcare in Belgium

• Life Cycle Analysis

 

Get in touch

Do you have additional questions or would like to provide feedback? We believe in continuously learning and growing as well as listening to our customers and partners' challenges and needs. 

Do not hesitate to contact us by clicking the button below, we are more than happy to address your questions and discuss how we can contribute to your ESG goals.