UK S2·Decision guide·Data and evidence
A bank applying UK SRS S2 should begin with a controlled commercial-banking exposure population, not with an emissions vendor file. B62-B62A require absolute gross financed emissions by Scope, industry and asset class; gross exposure in the financial-statement presentation currency; separate full undrawn commitments; coverage and exclusions; methodology and allocation; and a classification system selected for transition-risk usefulness and comparability.
Helps you decideHow to turn the controlled gross-exposure population into emissions, risk, scenario and target disclosures that are connected and reviewable.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
Use the template as a controlled question set. Begin with the Basis of Preparation; then disclose material governance, strategy, risk-management and metrics-and-targets information; explain significant judgements and uncertainty; connect the report to the financial statements and Strategic Report; and end with a statement that accurately reflects the reporting basis.
Helps you decideHow to structure the disclosure so readers understand its basis, material conclusions, financial connections and claim.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
The company secretary and legal team should lock the reporting basis before drafting, build the board and committee route around documented responsibilities, approve the annual-report architecture, test cross-referenced information, and control all public wording through a claim matrix. The final report must distinguish what UK SRS S1 requires, what the entity has chosen as implementation practice, what reliefs it uses, and which regulatory requirements are final, such as the FCA's PS26/19 listing rules, and which remain proposals.
Helps you decideWhere the disclosures sit, how governance and cross-references are evidenced, and what the entity may say publicly about compliance, alignment and assurance.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
Prepare a UK SRS S1 report as a controlled reporting system, not as a late drafting exercise. Fix the reporting basis and intended claim first; identify the complete population of sustainability-related risks and opportunities; assess investor-focused materiality; connect material matters to governance, strategy, risk management, financial effects, metrics and targets; apply UK SRS S2 at the same time unless paragraph E3 is used; build data and control evidence; then draft, challenge and approve a connected report published with the related financial statements.
Helps you decideHow to organise the first reporting cycle and retain enough evidence to support the final report and claim.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
The board should require a clear approval paper that reconciles the public report to the reporting basis, materiality conclusion, financial effects, data and control evidence, reliefs, assurance scope and final wording. UK SRS S1 is available for voluntary use, and the FCA's final rules in PS26/19 apply UK SRS S1 and S2 on a comply or explain basis to issuers in UKLR categories 6, 14, 15, 16 and 22 for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027; a future Companies Act route must not be treated as law until finalised.
Helps you decideWhether the board has enough evidence to approve the report, its cross-references and its public claim.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
A first-time UK SRS S1 reporter is not required to disclose comparative information in its first annual period of application. After the relief ends, paragraph 70 generally requires preceding-period comparative amounts and useful narrative comparatives.
Helps you decideUK SRS S1 Comparatives, Estimates and Errors: First-Year Reporting Guide
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UK S2·Decision guide·Data and evidence
When an entity has a climate-related transition plan, UK SRS S2 requires it to disclose that plan as part of the explanation of how climate-related risks and opportunities affect strategy and decision-making. The disclosure includes the plan’s key assumptions and dependencies and must be connected to business-model changes, direct and indirect mitigation and adaptation actions, target-achievement methods, resources and progress against previously disclosed plans.
Helps you decideWhether the entity has a plan meeting the UK SRS S2 concept and whether its disclosures faithfully explain the plan, its implementation basis and its progress.
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UK S2·Decision guide·Data and evidence
UK SRS S2 requires climate-related scenario analysis to assess climate resilience, but the method is commensurate with the entity’s circumstances. Those circumstances include its exposure to climate-related risks and opportunities and the skills, capabilities and resources available.
Helps you decideWhat scenario-analysis method is commensurate with exposure and available capability, and whether it produces enough evidence to assess strategy and business-model resilience.
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UK S2·Decision guide·Data and evidence
Preparing a UK SRS S2 report is a controlled annual-report project, not a final-stage writing exercise. Start by fixing the reporting basis and applying the relevant UK SRS S1 foundations.
Helps you decideHow to Prepare a UK SRS S2 Climate Report: Complete Step-by-Step Guide
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UK S2·Decision guide·Data and evidence
A UK SRS S2 checklist should cover more than the climate paragraphs. It should include the UK SRS S1 foundations that govern materiality, reporting entity, connected information, sources, timing, location, judgements and compliance; the four UK SRS S2 pillars; scenario analysis and resilience; current and anticipated financial effects; Scope 1-3 and financed emissions; cross-industry, industry-based and entity-specific metrics; targets; UK provisions; NFSIS, SECR and current regulatory overlaps; evidence and control testing; and management, committee, board and release approval.
Helps you decideWhich rows are complete, which are gaps or provisions, what evidence and remediation are required, and whether the intended compliance claim can be approved.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
A UK SRS S1 disclosure matrix should trace each disclosure decision from source requirement to material risk or opportunity, annual-report location, evidence, control owner, relief status and approval. It is not just a paragraph checklist.
Helps you decideCan each disclosure be traced to a requirement, evidence source, owner and approval point?
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
UK SRS S1 requires sustainability-related financial disclosures to be reported at the same time as the related financial statements and for the same reporting period. They form part of the entity’s general purpose financial reports.
Helps you decideWhere the complete disclosure set will sit, how it will be released simultaneously with the financial statements and whether any cross-reference or separate document meets UK SRS S1 conditions.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
UK SRS S1 is the UK's general standard for sustainability-related financial disclosures. It requires material information about sustainability-related risks and opportunities that could reasonably be expected to affect an entity's cash flows, access to finance or cost of capital over the short, medium or long term.
Helps you decideUK SRS S1 Explained: What It Requires, Who Can Use It and How to Start
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UK S1·Decision guide·Data and evidence
UK SRS S1 contains targeted proportionality mechanisms, not a general exemption for smaller or less mature entities. 'Undue cost or effort' applies only where the Standard expressly uses that phrase, including the use of reasonable and supportable information to identify risks and opportunities and determine value-chain scope, and in preparing anticipated financial-effect information.
Helps you decideUK SRS S1 Proportionality: 'Undue Cost or Effort' and Commensurate Approaches
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GRI·Explainer·Data and evidence
GRI 102: Climate Change 2025 is effective for reports or other materials published on or after 1 January 2027, with earlier adoption encouraged. It withdraws GRI 201-2 and GRI 305-1 to 305-5 for climate reporting and introduces ten disclosures covering mitigation and adaptation plans, just transition, targets and progress, gross Scope 1-3 emissions, intensity, removals and carbon credits.
Helps you decideWhich legacy climate disclosures change, what data and governance are newly needed, and how to prepare the 2026-2027 transition.
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
Revised ESRS E3 distinguishes water withdrawal, water discharge, water consumption, recycled or reused water and water stored. For own operations, E3-4 requires total consumption, consumption in areas of water stress, total withdrawal, total discharge, recycled/reused water and stored water, expressed in cubic metres.
Helps you decideESRS E3 Water: Withdrawal, Consumption, Discharge and Water-Stress Reporting
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
Revised ESRS E2 applies when pollution-related impacts, risks or opportunities are material. The undertaking identifies material subtopics - pollution of air, water or soil, primary microplastics, and substances of concern including substances of very high concern - and connects them to policies, actions, targets, metrics and financial effects.
Helps you decideESRS E2 Pollution: Air, Water, Soil, Microplastics and Substances of Concern
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
For most SMEs, the controlled dataset should come first and the designed report should be treated as one output. The 2026 Voluntary Standard is intended to serve counterparties, banks and investors as well as internal management, and it allows the report to be public or counterparty-focused.
Helps you decideDecide why a controlled dataset normally comes before graphic report design.
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
Every reported datapoint should have a controlled evidence record showing what was reported, which paragraph or subpoint it relates to, where the source came from, who owns it, which period and boundary it covers, how it was calculated or judged, who reviewed it, whether the evidence is confidential and whether the datapoint is approved for release. The 2026 Voluntary Standard does not prescribe a named “evidence register”, but it requires information to be faithful and verifiable.
Helps you decideDefine the minimum evidence record behind each metric and narrative statement.
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
The 2026 EU Voluntary Standard allows or anticipates estimates in some areas - most clearly for Scope 1 and location-based Scope 2 greenhouse-gas emissions - but it does not provide a general “data unavailable” exemption for every essential and applicable datapoint. A missing value must first be tested against the selected module, an explicit voluntary category, an “if applicable” condition and the limited omission permission in paragraph 22.
Helps you decideUnderstand why estimation is sometimes acceptable but unavailability is not a general omission reason.
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
ESRS S4 should be organised around the product or service and the people who use it. When consumer or end-user impacts, risks or opportunities are material, the undertaking explains the affected products, services and user groups through three lenses: information-related impacts, including privacy and access to information; personal safety, including health, child protection and personal security; and social inclusion, including access, responsible marketing and non-discrimination.
Helps you decideWhich product/user impact pathways are material, and how complaints, incidents, privacy, access and product evidence are controlled.
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
ESRS S3 begins with places and rights, not with a generic list of stakeholders. When affected-community impacts, risks or opportunities are material, the undertaking identifies the communities and locations connected to operations and value-chain activities, explains relevant civil, economic, social, cultural and Indigenous Peoples’ rights, describes policies, engagement and representative or proxy arrangements, channels and remedy, actions, incidents and targets.
Helps you decideWhich communities and rights are connected to material impacts, and how engagement, grievance, remedy and evidence are controlled.
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
ESRS S2 is impact- and relationship-based, not a supplier-audit checklist. When workers in the upstream or downstream value chain are connected to material impacts, risks or opportunities, the undertaking explains the affected worker groups and locations, its policies and supplier expectations, engagement or credible-proxy arrangements, channels and remedy, actions and leverage, incidents, targets and the entity-specific metrics needed to show progress.
Helps you decideWhich worker groups and relationships are material, what evidence is proportionate, and how action, remedy and outcomes are demonstrated.
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ESRS·Explainer·Data and evidence
Read ESRS as a hierarchy, not as a spreadsheet of isolated fields. Start with the disclosure objective and the material topic, then read the full Disclosure Requirement (DR), break its “shall” clauses into distinct datapoints, apply the related Application Requirements (ARs), check defined terms in the glossary, and finally test whether the resulting information is material and supports fair presentation.
Helps you decideESRS Disclosure Requirements, Datapoints and Application Requirements: How to Read the Standards
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
A useful first C4 disclosure is specific, traceable and proportionate - not necessarily model-heavy. Identify the hazard or transition event, the exposed site, activity or value-chain node, the reason it is sensitive, the relevant time horizon, the potential operational or financial channel, and the action or control.
Helps you decidehow far to take scenario work in a first climate risk disclosure, and what a risk statement must name to stay traceable
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
The safest C2 rule is simple: the noun in the report must match the evidence behind it. A repeated activity is not automatically an approved policy.
Helps you decideWhich evidence category supports each claim, and what status language is accurate at the reporting date?
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EU VS·Comparison·Data and evidence
Choose the Basic Module when the organisation needs a reliable core report, is building its first repeatable data cycle or mainly answers proportionate customer and management questions. Choose Basic plus Comprehensive when banks, investors or corporate clients need additional information on strategy, policies, Scope 3, GHG targets, transition, climate risks, workforce depth, human rights, sensitive activities or governance diversity - and the organisation can complete and evidence the full Comprehensive Module.
Helps you decideWhich module best fits company size, information users, data maturity, climate needs and upgrade plans.
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EU VS·Decision guide·Data and evidence
Use the voluntary standard as a controlled data and evidence model. Start by triaging the requester, entity, purpose, period and intended use.
Helps you decidewhich approved answers may be reused exactly as they stand, and which have to be re-derived for this requester, period and purpose
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EU VS·Explainer·Data and evidence
A strong EU Voluntary Sustainability Report should be built as three connected outputs: an approved report or counterparty-facing document, a controlled disclosure index and response pack, and a restricted evidence room. The report should identify the undertaking, reporting period, perimeter, Option A or Option B basis, paragraph 22 omissions and applicable B/C disclosures; explain methodologies, boundaries, estimates, changes and limitations; and use a disclosure index that points to precise locations.
Helps you decideEU Voluntary Sustainability Report Template: Structure, Disclosure Index and Evidence Pack
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EU VS·Explainer·Data and evidence
The Comprehensive Module adds C1-C9 to a completed Basic Module. It is designed to address information needs commonly raised by banks, investors and corporate clients.
Helps you decideEU Voluntary Standard Comprehensive Module: Complete Guide to C1-C9 Disclosures
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