The BE-Cold ESG reporting standard offers significant benefits to Belgian refrigeration and freezer companies by ensuring uniformity in their sustainability reporting, ensuring clarity and comparability between companies. This reduces confusion about different calculation methods and increases the understandability of the reports for stakeholders. The standard contributes to efficiency by completing 80% of the requirements automatically, allowing companies to focus on their company-specific data.

In addition, the joint approach promotes knowledge sharing and saves SMEs time and resources by not having to develop their own methods separately. By working together as an industry, companies can strengthen their relationships with customers, banks and insurers and better prepare for future laws and regulations.