The Czech BCSD and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (“WBCSD“) entered into a license agreement to translate the Global Circularity Protocol for Business, Version 1.0 (“GCP“) into Czech. Consequently, the Czech BCSD is currently seeking sponsors which would cover the cost of professional translation (fully aligned with the terminology of EU legislation, in particular the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ESRS) and graphic works for this prestigious and landmark global 236-page standard for circular economy which will shape the rules of global circular markets for years to come. Its importance for the circular economy is comparable to that of the Corporate GHG Protocol Standard for emission accounting and reporting first issued by the WBCSD and WRI in 1998, which has since become by far the most widely used set of rules for measuring and reporting the emission footprint of corporations, products and projects.

Coordinated and elaborate by the WBCSD in strategic partnership with the One Planet Network (hosted by UNEP), the GCP is a practical framework that helps companies measure, improve, and communicate circularity, using standardized steps and metrics to drive credible, scalable impact across value chains. The GCP represents a unique opportunity to align business, policy, and science around a common framework for circularity. By scaling adoption globally, it can drive measurable environmental, economic, and social benefits at a scale that matches today’s most urgent sustainability challenges.

The sponsor(s) of the translation will be presented with a logo and acknowledgements on the penultimate page of the GCP. In addition, the Czech BCSD would further promote them at all relevant events and links on its website and social networks (e.g. LinkedIn). The standard will be available free of charge on the Czech BCSD website, on the sponsor(s) website and also on the WBCSD website. It is up to the sponsor(s) whether, for example, they would procure a print version and to send brochures as a gift to their business partners, for which the Czech BCSD will provide them with the appropriate license. In addition, in the future, the Czech BCSD expects to train its members and possibly external interested parties in the use of the GCP within the framework of the Czech BCSD Academy. It is estimated that it will be about 3-5 years before the new GCP update, and the current version will be used by Czech companies and public sector representatives who want to seriously deal with the circular economy in Czechia, including those who will report their non-financial performance according to the ESRS E5 (Resource Use and Circular Economy).

For the sake of completeness, we complement that the previous version of the WBCSD methodology on circular economy – Circular Transition Indicators v4.0 | WBCSD – was the basis for the methodology of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for circular audits, see Circular audit | MPO. We assume that this departmental methodology will be aligned with GCP sooner or later. The translation of GCP into Czech should thus contribute to the acceleration of quality circular practices in the Czech Republic and better management of material resources as a prerequisite for the future material resilience and security of Czech industry.

For more detailed terms and conditions of translation sponsorship, please contact Mgr. Erika Duchanová, Secretary General of the Czech BCSD, at + 420 602 525 836 or at duchanova@cbcsd.cz.