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The ESG Report Builder is a self-guided tool to build your ESG report across industry-leading frameworks. We guide each topic with the unique ability to customize your report by mixing and matching across frameworks, sectors, and industries.

With an extensive library of worksheets, topic-level project management, and data collection by users and non-users we streamline and simplify the process.

Features & Frameworks

• Mix and match frameworks to create a customized report
• Supported frameworks: CSRD, SASB/ISSB, GRI, TCFD, UN SDGs and WEF
• Guidance on each industry and framework topic
• Project management for requesting data & assigning users
• Audit trails with workflows and approvals

The ESG Reporter

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Reporter

Mandatory reporting

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), proposed by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), was adopted in July 2023. Implementation will begin in January 2024 for the reporting year 2025. Reporting will be on a rolling basis depending on the size and location of companies.

In 2025, 50,000 European companies will have to comply with the CSRD. One of the key aspects of the CSRD is the concept of “double materiality”. Double materiality refers to the intersection of issues that hold economic significance for a company and those that are pertinent to external stakeholders.

Seamless integration

ESG Playbook’s CSRD Reporter is included in the ESG Report Builder so companies can mix and match their reporting frameworks. The CSRD Reporter is also integrated with the Double Materiality Assessment for seamless material topic selection.

Features

• Extensive guidance on the regulation
• Ability to add additional frameworks to report
• Master mapping to other frameworks
• Gap analysis on key policies, targets & KPIs
• Automatic flow of topics from Double Materiality Assessment to report
• Project Management for users

• CSRD Dashboard

Double materiality defined

Double materiality is a concept which provides criteria for determination of whether a sustainability topic or information has to be included in the undertaking’s sustainability report.

Double materiality is the union (in mathematical terms, i.e. union of two sets, not intersection) of impact materiality and financial materiality. A sustainability topic or information meets therefore the criteria of double materiality if it is material from the impact perspective or from the financial perspective or from both of these two perspectives.

Source: ESRS

CSRD vs NFRD

The CSRD will replace the existing Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) that has been in effect since 2018. Similar to the NFRD, the CSRD outlines reporting obligations for companies regarding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects.

Its objective is to substantially broaden the scope of the NFRD, expanding both the reporting entities and the required reporting content. In the coming years it is expected that the CSRD will roll out industry sector-specific reports and reporting for companies operating in the EU, who will also have to report.

Double Materiality Assessment

Assess your double materiality with the Double Materiality Assessment Module and engage with your internal and external stakeholders. Extensive tools to determine your double materiality topics for your business in line with GRI and CSRD (European Regulation).

With the EU’s CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) requirements soon coming into force, double materiality reporting is set to become mandatory for approximately 50,000 organizations.

Use ESG Playbook’s materiality assessment tool to identify the sustainability topics that matter most to your organization. Get a list of priority actions for each topic based on your maturity level.

Features

Engage With Your Stakeholders On ESG Material Topics

• Perform double materiality assessments compliant with CSRD regulations
• Improve risk management, annual reporting, and Board oversight by incorporating material issues from 3,000+ ESG risk factors
• Industry-specific guidance
• Ability to customize your own topics
• Analyze your materiality assessment by stakeholder groups
• Survey manager to track your progress
• Climate Risk Scenario Analysis provided by third-party vendors to automatically map your risks and opportunities due to climate change
• Extensive tools to assist with understanding and tracking your materiality with assurance and audit steps built-in
• Integrate with your policies and recommendations with the Goals module

Materiality Matrix Dashboard

What is Double Materiality?

What Exactly Does Double Materiality Mean?

The double materiality concept has to do with the ESG-related information a company reports. Particularly, it involves expanding the scope of information that is considered ‘material’ or important.

With traditional materiality reporting, information is only considered material if it is related to factors impacting a company’s financial performance. When using double-materiality reporting, information relating to how a company impacts the world is also considered material.

Basically, double-materiality reporting involves reporting on ESG-related matters that affect a company’s well-being and reporting on how the company’s actions affect people and the environment.

Carbon Reporter

The Carbon Reporter is your tool for carbon emissions management. We calculate scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, providing a comprehensive understanding of your carbon footprint. Identify key areas for emission reduction and create effective strategies.

Track your progress towards net zero emissions, utilize facility mapping, and calculate actual and projected carbon offset prices.

Features

• Scope 1, 2 and 3 (all mandatory GHG reporting scopes)
• Audit-ready, verifiable, traceable
• API for importing data
• Heat map to identify carbon hot spots
• Survey manager to streamline data collection
• Carbon tax Modeling
• Net-Zero Reporting
• Email reminders to aid with data collection
• Ability to filter data on a consolidated or entity basis
• PCAF for compiling financed emissions

Track Carbon Reduction Trajectory

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

DEI is fundamental in understanding Social impact and assuring that businesses act in a manner that benefits society. The DEI module helps companies understand their performance, demographics and measure sentiment analysis across their employees and Board.

Features

• Customizable questions for demographics and sentiment criteria
• Peer comparison and score card on an industry level
• Quickly tabulate your DEI data with surveys
• Trend analysis for year over year changes
• Shift mindsets, behaviors, and practices so everyone in your organization attains their full potential
• Survey manager for board and employees
• Understand the risk in your employee base with sentiment questions
• Compare your results with Industry benchmarking from 2,000 companies
• Customize your own dashboard

DEI Dashboard

Diverse Teams Drive Better Performance

Use our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion solution to help you shift your culture

Multiple studies have proven that diverse teams drive better business performance and organizations with greater diversity become more resilient and innovative. And inclusion is required for diverse groups to thrive.

To see real, sustainable change, and to leverage the full potential of all their talent, organizations must go beyond diversity and inclusion to focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.