Data governance
Build sustainability data that is controlled, traceable and usable
Carter Sustainability Consulting can help organisations improve the governance of carbon, ESG and sustainability data. Many organisations can calculate sustainability metrics but lack clear ownership, control and traceability over the underlying information. Figures are produced, but nobody can say with confidence where they came from, who is accountable for them or what changed between one reporting cycle and the next.
Data governance
Build sustainability data that is controlled, traceable and usable
Carter Sustainability Consulting can help organisations improve the governance of carbon, ESG and sustainability data.
Many organisations can calculate sustainability metrics but lack clear ownership, control and traceability over the underlying information. Figures are produced, but nobody can say with confidence where they came from, who is accountable for them or what changed between one reporting cycle and the next.
Good sustainability reporting depends on knowing where the data came from, who owns it, how it was changed and why it can be trusted.
Services may include
- Sustainability data governance frameworks
- Data ownership
- Roles and responsibilities
- Data stewardship
- Source-system mapping
- Data lineage
- Reporting controls
- Data-quality rules
- Validation processes
- Approval workflows
- Master-data issues
- Classification standards
- Calculation governance
- Methodology governance
- Change control
- Evidence retention
- Audit trails
- Documentation standards
- Reporting calendars
- Governance across finance, procurement, sustainability and technology teams
Typical outputs
- Data-governance framework
- Structure, principles and controls for carbon, ESG and sustainability information.
- Responsibility matrix
- Clear ownership and accountability across sustainability, finance, procurement and technology.
- Source-to-report data map
- How each reported figure traces back through systems to its source.
- Data-quality control framework
- Validation rules, checks and thresholds applied through the reporting cycle.
- Reporting process map
- The end-to-end process, handovers, approvals and reporting calendar.
- Governance recommendations
- Practical changes to ownership, control and oversight.
- Methodology-control documentation
- How methodologies are defined, approved and changed over time.
- Remediation roadmap
- Prioritised actions to close governance and control gaps.
Related services
Most sustainability challenges span more than one discipline. These services are often relevant alongside data governance.
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