Methodology

The written methodology is being drafted and will be published here once it is approved. Until then, this is what already holds for every profile on the site.

Where the data comes from

We read documents companies publish themselves: sustainability reports, integrated reports and annual reports. We add memberships from public registers such as the Science Based Targets initiative, CDP, RE100 and the UN Global Compact.

What we show

• A figure appears only with the document and the page it was read from.
• A document is used only when it names the company as the reporting entity. A group report is not shown on a subsidiary's profile.
• When a later report restates an earlier year, we show the later report's figure.
• Where a company publishes nothing on a topic we say "not disclosed". A missing disclosure is not a statement about performance.

When a company gets a profile

A profile is published only when the entity check passed and enough cited figures were found. Companies that do not meet that bar are left out until they do.

Scope of version 1

Environmental topics only: greenhouse gas emissions, energy, water, waste, materials, environmental targets and initiatives, and avoided emissions claims.