UK S2·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S2 requires absolute gross Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent when those disclosures are provided. The default measurement basis is the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, subject to the Standard’s jurisdictional-method provisions.
Helps you decideHow to define the boundary, measure gross emissions and retain sufficient evidence for each scope.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
Finance should own the conversion of material sustainability conclusions into controlled financial information. The process starts with the same reporting entity and planning horizons used for the financial statements, maps operational transmission channels, tests current and anticipated effects, documents ranges and uncertainty, and reconciles the result to budgets, forecasts, capex plans, treasury assumptions and the annual report.
Helps you decideHow to translate material sustainability matters into finance evidence and annual-report disclosures without inventing precision.
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UK S2·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S2 requires disclosure of each quantitative or qualitative climate-related target the entity has set, and each target it is required to meet by law or regulation. The entity explains the metric, objective, part of the entity covered, target period, base period, milestones, whether the target is absolute or intensity-based and how the latest international climate agreement informed the target.
Helps you decideWhether every material target has a complete, controlled definition and whether performance can be measured consistently and explained fairly.
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UK S2·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S2 requires three connected layers of climate information: cross-industry metric categories, industry-based metrics and the metrics used for climate targets. The cross-industry layer covers Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions; assets or business activities exposed to transition and physical risks; alignment with opportunities; climate-related capital deployment; internal carbon prices; and climate-linked remuneration.
Helps you decideWhich climate metrics must be disclosed, how they are measured and controlled, and how targets and comparatives remain transparent when methods, boundaries or data quality change.
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UK S2·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S2 requires quantitative and qualitative information about how climate-related risks and opportunities affected financial position, financial performance and cash flows in the reporting period, and how those effects are anticipated to develop over the short, medium and long term. Finance teams should trace each material climate matter through business transmission channels to revenue, costs, assets, liabilities, cash flows, financing and investment plans.
Helps you decideWhich current and anticipated effects are supportable, at what level of quantification, over which horizons, and with which assumptions, ranges, controls and connections to financial statements.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S1 does not ask an entity to publish every ESG metric it can calculate. For each sustainability-related risk and opportunity that could reasonably be expected to affect prospects, the entity discloses metrics required by an applicable UK SRS and the metrics it actually uses to monitor the matter, performance and progress towards targets.
Helps you decideWhich metrics are relevant and material, how to document entity-specific measures, and how to report target progress without hiding methods, estimates or missed milestones.
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UK S1·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
UK SRS S1 requires information about both current financial effects for the reporting period and anticipated effects over the short, medium and long term. Finance teams should trace each material sustainability-related risk or opportunity through a business transmission channel to revenue, costs, assets, liabilities, cash flows or financing.
Helps you decideWhat financial effect is supportable, at what level of quantification, over which time horizon and with which assumptions, controls and connected disclosures.
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ESRS·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
Under revised ESRS E1, an undertaking discloses absolute gross Scope 1 emissions, both location-based and market-based Scope 2 emissions, and total and category-level significant Scope 3 emissions. The calculation starts with a documented reporting undertaking and GHG organisational boundary, not with an emission-factor spreadsheet.
Helps you decideESRS Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 Emissions: Boundaries, Methods and Data Controls
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ESRS·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
ESRS S1 combines a people-impact narrative with a tightly controlled workforce dataset. When own-workforce impacts, risks or opportunities are material, the undertaking reports policies, engagement and grievance/remedy arrangements, actions and targets, then provides the applicable worker-characteristic and outcome metrics.
Helps you decideHow to determine the S1 population and control the applicable workforce metrics and narratives.
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ESRS·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
ESRS E5 should be implemented as a controlled physical-flow model, not as a collection of disconnected waste indicators. When resource use and circular economy are material, the undertaking links its policies, actions and targets to resource inflows, product and service outflows and waste outflows.
Helps you decideHow to build a traceable material-flow model and select evidence-ready E5 metrics and targets.
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EU VS·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
Do not use one broad “workforce” denominator. Turnover concerns employees and an average annual employee population.
Helps you decidewhich population belongs in each workforce denominator, and whether a small-population turnover figure is safe to publish
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EU VS·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
Begin with a category screening, not with a request for a single Scope 3 total. Quantify the categories that are significant and for which a reasonable estimate can be supported; explain the methods and limitations.
Helps you decidewhich Scope 3 categories are ready to quantify and publish, and whether your climate ambition qualifies as an established target
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EU VS·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
B3 requires total energy consumption in MWh and, where the necessary information can be obtained, a renewable/non-renewable split for electricity and fuels. It also requires estimated absolute gross Scope 1 emissions and location-based Scope 2 emissions in tCO2e, considering the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard.
Helps you decideHow to construct the energy register, select factors, treat supplier attributes and document estimates.
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ESRS·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
ESRS requires finance teams to explain how material sustainability risks and opportunities affected financial position, performance and cash flows in the reporting period; identify those carrying amounts exposed to a significant risk of material adjustment in the next annual period; and describe expected changes over short, medium and long term given the undertaking’s strategy. Start with the material IRO, translate it into a business driver, map the driver to revenue, cost, assets, liabilities, cash flow, access to finance or cost of capital, and then decide whether a single amount, range, non-monetary quantity, combined effect or qualitative disclosure is decision-useful.
Helps you decideCurrent and Anticipated Financial Effects Under ESRS: A Practical Guide for Finance Teams
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ESRS·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
An undertaking needs entity-specific disclosures when a material impact, risk or opportunity is not covered by ESRS, or is not covered with enough granularity for users to understand the matter and how it is managed. The solution is not to invent an attractive KPI.
Helps you decideWhat additional narrative, metric or target information is necessary for fair presentation?
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ESRS·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
GDR-P, GDR-A, GDR-M and GDR-T form a connected disclosure grammar for material IROs. GDR-P explains policy objectives, scope and exclusions.
Helps you decideHow to structure policy, action, metric and target disclosures around the IRO.
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UAE·Toolkit·Metrics and methodologies
One file and five guides. The workbook holds the readiness and MRV controls in editable form — and the five Knowledge Hub guides from the same package cover who counts as a source, what the federal decree-law requires, when designation attaches, the MRV and data-retention duties, and where implementation now stands.
Helps you decideWhich package files and related guides belong to this toolkit?
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TNFD·Toolkit·Metrics and methodologies
Two files and four guides. The toolkit comes as a PDF to read and a Word document to fill in — and the four Knowledge Hub guides from the same package cover governance disclosures, nature-related risks, nature-related opportunities, and the strategy disclosures built on DIROs.
Helps you decideWhich package files and related guides belong to this toolkit?
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GRI·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
GRI 102: Climate Change 2025 requires gross Scope 3 emissions to be reported by each of the 15 GHG Protocol categories, together with the consolidation approach, methods, assumptions, emission-factor sources and relevant base-year information. A first-year reporter should therefore screen every category, calculate material or high-priority categories with the best available data, use transparent estimates for the rest, and record a time-bound improvement plan.
Helps you decideGRI 102 Scope 3 Reporting: Categories, Data Hierarchy and Supplier Estimates
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TNFD·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
A credible TNFD nature target identifies the material dependency, impact, risk or opportunity it addresses; the locations and value-chain boundary covered; the baseline and reference condition; the metric and method; the target date and interim milestones; the actions and resources expected to deliver the result; and the governance process for monitoring, revision and missed performance. Organisation-wide targets can support strategic direction, but they should not replace location-associated targets where the nature issue is local.
Helps you decideTNFD Nature Targets: Baselines, Locations, Value Chains and Progress
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TNFD·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
TNFD does not ask organisations to publish every nature metric they can calculate. Its architecture distinguishes core global and core sector disclosure metrics, additional global and additional sector disclosure metrics, and assessment metrics used internally.
Helps you decideTNFD Metrics and Targets: Core Global, Sector and Additional Metrics Explained
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UK S1·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
“May refer to and consider” means that UK SRS S1 does not require an entity to consult or apply SASB as the mandatory specific source when no topic-specific UK SRS exists. The entity can use SASB, adapt relevant SASB information, use other eligible sources or develop entity-specific information.
Helps you decideWhether SASB, another recognised source, peer practice or an entity-developed measure provides relevant and faithfully representative information for the entity’s industries and material matters.
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UAE·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
Start by defining what the verifier is being engaged to verify. Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024 does not itself state that every Source must appoint an external verifier: Article 6 places verification of data accuracy and compliance with the Ministry or competent authority.
Helps you decideHow to Choose a UAE GHG Verifier: Accreditation, Competence and Conflicts of Interest
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UAE·Comparison·Metrics and methodologies
There is no single 0.5 million tCO2e threshold that determines whether the UAE Climate Law applies. Three questions must be separated.
Helps you decideIs There a UAE Climate Law Emissions Threshold? Article 6 vs the 0.5 Million tCO2e Registry Test
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UAE·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
A quarrying or construction-materials inventory should be built around the actual extraction-to-product chain. Typical sources include diesel used by drills, excavators, loaders, haul trucks and generators; electricity used by crushers, screens, conveyors and batching plants; refrigerants; contractor equipment; and process emissions where the operation actually includes calcination or another GHG-generating transformation.
Helps you decideWhich extraction, mobile, fixed-plant, contractor, purchased-energy, fugitive and process sources belong to the designated reporting perimeter.
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UAE·Comparison·Metrics and methodologies
Use the authority's accepted criteria first. Where those criteria are not yet clear, either GHG Protocol or ISO 14064-1 can support a robust provisional inventory, provided the method choice, boundary, factors, estimates, evidence and gaps are documented.
Helps you decideWhich method will structure the provisional inventory, which elements must remain configurable, and what evidence is needed for authority and verifier review.
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UAE·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
Do not infer a filing deadline from the law's effective date, the 30 May 2026 Article 18 adjustment date, the annual national data-analysis cycle or a portal used in another jurisdiction. For each Source or facility, obtain a dated written basis confirming the competent authority, designation, reporting period, frequency, deadline and time zone, portal, account and identifiers, current form version, attachments, verification requirement, correction route and evidence of successful submission.
Helps you decideUAE Climate Reporting Periods, Platforms and Filing Deadlines: What to Confirm with Authorities
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UAE·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
Start with any emission factor, GWP set and calculation basis expressly prescribed by MOCCAE or the relevant competent authority. Where the authority permits choice, prefer UAE-, emirate-, utility-, fuel- or technology-specific data that match the activity, reporting year and unit basis.
Helps you decideEmission Factors for UAE Climate Reporting: Local Data, IPCC, DEFRA and Supplier Factors
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UAE·Decision guide·Metrics and methodologies
“Scope 1” is a useful GHG Protocol label for direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by the reporting organisation, but it is not a term defined by Federal Decree-Law No. (11) of 2024. For UAE Climate Law readiness, first identify the designated Source or facility and the competent authority’s required perimeter.
Helps you decideIdentify all direct emission sources within the approved perimeter and select a traceable calculation or measurement route for each.
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UAE·Explainer·Metrics and methodologies
A defensible UAE Climate Law gap assessment compares a dated, route-specific requirements matrix with operating evidence - not only with the current sustainability report. Score maturity separately across legal status, boundary and source mapping, data and evidence, methods and factors, internal controls, verifier readiness, reduction/adaptation plans, and registry/filing governance.
Helps you decideUAE Climate Law Gap Assessment: Applicability, MRV, Verification and Reduction Readiness
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