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Business model, policies and workforce disclosures

Three Comprehensive Module disclosures where maturity is most easily overstated: a repeated activity becomes a policy, an ambition becomes a target, a broad headcount becomes a turnover denominator. The module's climate disclosures are covered in the climate subject.

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