What's New in Lucanet ESG Reporting?

A master user can now restore ESG reports that were canceled previously. If a canceled ESG report is restored, the status of the ESG report is automatically set to the one the ESG report had before it was canceled.

All reporting entities that were assigned before cancellation will be assigned to the ESG report again.

ESG Masters and ESG Data Collectors can now open canceled ESG reports at the last status of the report. Canceled reports can be opened in the ESG Reports workspace on the Cancelled reports tab:

Once the Data aggregation step has been finalized, an ESG master can reopen the aggregated ESG report to collect updated values from the assigned reporting entities.

An aggregated report can be reopened from:

• The Data aggregation page
  
  _{Reopening an aggregated report from the 'Data aggregation' page}
• The report overview in the ESG Reports workspace
  
  _{Reopening an aggregated report from the 'ESG Reports' workspace}

When an aggregated ESG report is reopened, its status as well as the report statuses of the individual reporting entities will be set to In Progress and ESG data collectors can edit the values on the ESRS questionnaire and submit the ESG report again. For more information, see Reopening an Aggregated ESG Report.

The configuration of the ESRS questionnaire has been revised. As of now, the questionnaire is displayed in a tree structure to make it easier to recognize which elements (e.g. guidelines, topics, or questions) belong to which superordinate element and the current position of the user in the hierarchy. The various levels can be shown or collapsed individually or completely.

The ESG master can include or exclude various levels of the hierarchy structure from the ESRS questionnaire via a checkbox to show or hide an element in the ESRS questionnaire, i.e. a category, a guideline, a topic, a sub-topic, or a question.

There have been several user interface improvements to enhance clarity as well as the navigation. You can now benefit from the following:

• All actions that are available to you depending on your user role and on the data collection step are now available in an additional column in the ESG Reports and Data collection workspaces, e.g. to show notes or the option to submit or approve an ESG report.
  

• The data collection details of a specific reporting entity are now displayed on a single page instead of one page for ESRS and one page for the emissions module. For easier data collection and data review and a better navigation within the page, the ESRS questionnaire and emissions module are displayed as tabs.

• In the ESRS questionnaire and emissions module, it is possible to collapse the panel on the right-hand side of the screen to gain more space for data collection or review.

• As an ESG data collector, you can now submit your data or, as an ESG master, you can approve or reject data directly in the data collection page of a single reporting entity.

When creating a footprint, the system now automatically uses the latest data version of the emission factor for GHG calculation. The data version used is stored and displayed for every footprint: 

An ESG master can drill down on aggregated data in the aggregated ESG report to display the underlying data that have been submitted by each reporting entity, such as text inputs, answers to multiple-choice questions, or currencies. As of now, it is also possible to drill down on aggregated data displayed in tables to view the data entries of individual reporting entities. 

As of now, a note can be added in the confirmation dialog for certain actions: 

You can also display the notes on the data collection page of a specific reporting entity directly in the panel on the right-hand side. For more information, see General Functions in ESG Reporting.