Environmental, Social, and Governance metrics
The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics capability helps you compute quantitative ESG metrics that meet disclosure reporting requirements, such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and others. You can visualize the trendlines and explore the computed metrics through interactive dashboards.
External applications can access the computed metrics data for scenarios, such as data audits and CSRD report generation.
The items that deploy with this capability include pipelines and notebooks that compute and store ESG metrics data based on standardized ESG data models. The capability also includes dashboards to visualize and analyze the ESG metrics.
All resources that this solution deploys are prebuilt and deployed into your Fabric workspace. The resources are open, and you can customize them to meet your needs.
This capability requires that you deploy the ESG data estate capability first. If you don't deploy the ESG data estate first, then when you deploy the ESG metrics capability, the system automatically deploys the ESG data estate.
ESG metric
An ESG metric consists of a metric definition and output. A metric definition consists of the following components:
Name of the metric - For example, Scope 3 category wise emissions - Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol
Sustainability area - For example, emissions or social
Computation logic - The aggregation, filtering, or calculations that are involved in computing the metric
Labels - For storing contextual information of a metric to help in discoverability, such as mapping the metric to the disclosure standards and disclosure datapoints that require that metric’s output
Metric output is the datapoint that contains a value and dimensions. The dimensions provide the context for the value, such as Total scope 1 emissions by reporting year, where reporting year is a dimension.
You can run computation logic that's captured in a metric’s definition on a dataset to generate metric output data.
You can use these metrics, or key performance indicators (KPIs), as follows:
As quantitative datapoints that sustainability reporting standards require for disclosure, such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) or Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
To monitor sustainability KPIs that an organization takes.
The Environmental, Social, and Governance metrics (preview) capability provides a library of prebuilt ESG metric definitions. The ConfigAndDemoData_LH resource deploys the prebuilt definitions as a JSON file (metrics_definitions_config.json) along with the ESG metrics capability deployment. You can select and compute the prebuilt metrics by using the prebuilt notebooks and pipelines that deploy as part of this capability.
You can extend the capability for defining and computing custom metrics by following the same pattern that's used for prebuilt metrics.