Environmental, social, and governance metrics
The Environmental, social, and governance metrics capability helps you compute quantitative environmental, social and, governance (ESG) metrics that meet disclosure reporting requirements such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive 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 Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) report generation.
The items deployed in this capability include pipelines and notebooks that compute, and store ESG metrics data based on standardized environmental, social, and governance 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 the ESG data estate capability to be deployed prior. If the ESG data estate isn't deployed, then when you deploy the Environmental, Social, and Governance metrics capability, automatically the ESG data estate is deployed.
ESG metric
An ESG metric consists of a metric definition and output. A metric definition consists of:
Name of the metric - For example, Scope 3 category wise emissions - Green house Gas (GHG) protocol.
Sustainability area - For example, emissions or social.
Computation logic - The aggregation, filtering, or calculations involved in computing the metric.
Labels - For storing contextual information of a metric to help in discoverability. For example, 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. For example, Total scope 1 emissions by reporting year, where reporting year is a dimension.
Computation logic captured in metric’s definition can be run on a dataset to generate metric output data.
You can use these metrics, or KPIs as follows:
As quantitative datapoints required for disclosure by sustainability reporting standards such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
To monitor sustainability KPIs taken by an organization.
The Environmental, Social, and Governance metrics (preview) capability provides a library of prebuilt ESG metric definitions. The prebuilt definitions are deployed in the ConfigAndDemoData_LH as a JSON file (metrics_definitions_config.json) along with the ESG metrics capability deployment. You can select and compute the prebuilt metrics using the prebuilt notebooks and pipelines deployed as part of this capability.
You can extend the capability for defining and computing custom metrics by following the same pattern that is used for prebuilt metrics.