From Sustainability Program, you can add topics for specific Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or sustainability factors to track or report. For example, an Environmental topic of your Program may include topics for Energy and Waste, or a Social topic may contain topics like Diversity & inclusion (D&I) and Human rights.
From a topic, you can add metrics for the values to disclose in your reporting, send tasks to collect metric values, and track their data collection.
Manage a topic's metrics by collection period
From a topic, you can view its metrics, grouped by the frequency of their values' data collection — Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly — for the Program year. To track or manage the data collection of only values for a specific time frame within the year, select the start and end months in Reporting period.
When you select a reporting period, the topic only displays metrics' statuses and sends tasks or reminders for only data collection within the range.
Rename a topic
You can edit the name of a topic from the Program outline or from the topic itself.
From the outline:
- Double-click the topic, or right-click the topic and select Rename .
- Enter the topic's new name.
Select Rename from the topic's menu, and enter its new name.
Delete a topic
If you no longer need a topic and its metrics, you can delete it from the outline or the topic itself.
Note: When you delete a topic, you also delete all of its metrics' values, and cancel any data collection tasks.
To delete a topic:
- From the outline, right-click the topic, select Remove , and click Remove.
- From the topic, select Delete topic from its menu, and click Delete.