Tour of ESG and Carbon

Steps

1. 1

   Choose ESG and Carbon in the left menu

   In the left menu, scroll down to the Sustainability group and select ESG and Carbon. ESG stands for environmental, social and governance: how a company affects the environment, how it treats people, and how it is run. The module opens on its Dashboard.

   • Select ESG & Carbon
2. 2

   Open the reporting year list

   The box at the top right is the reporting year. Select it to see the years you can choose, from 2020 to 2027. Everything on the screen is for the year chosen here. It opens on the current year, 2026.

   • Select 2026
3. 3

   Keep 2026 selected

   Choose 2026 to close the list. To look back at an earlier year you would choose it here, and the dashboard, lists and reports would all change to that year.

   • Choose 2026
4. 4

   Find your way with In this module

   In this module lists the twelve sections. Applicability shows which rules apply. Emissions, Targets and Offsets hold the carbon data. Social and Governance hold the people and management figures. Materiality decides which topics matter. Insights and Rating Agencies show gaps. Reports holds the disclosure reports, and Access shows who may do what. The numbers beside some names count the records for the year; they are all zero for now.

5. 5

   Read the ESG Configuration box

   The first box on the Dashboard is ESG Configuration. It shows two settings that every new entity starts with: MOCCAE Designation, which is whether the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment has named the company as a reporting source, and GHG Boundary Approach, which is the rule for deciding whose greenhouse gas emissions count as yours. The Configure button changes them; the next lesson uses it.

6. 6

   Read the headline carbon figures

   The four tiles show the year's emissions in tonnes of CO2e, carbon dioxide equivalent. Scope 1 is fuel and gases the company burns or releases itself. Scope 2 is energy it buys. Scope 3 is everything else in its value chain, such as water, waste and business travel. They read zero until records are entered.

   

7. 7

   Read intensity and disclosure

   The next row shows emissions for each million dirhams of revenue and for each square metre of floor area, which let you compare years fairly. Both show a dash, with a hint to set revenue and floor area in the configuration. Disclosure is the share of emission records that a second person has checked and marked Verified.

8. 8

   See the chart and the industry benchmarks

   Scroll down. Emissions by Scope will draw a bar for each month once there are records. UAE Industry Benchmarks lists typical emissions per employee for seven sectors, including Retail at 8.5 tonnes. The Your Entity column divides this entity's emissions by its declared headcount of 420, as the note under the table says; with no records yet it reads zero.

9. 9

   See how complete the data is

   Scroll to Data Completeness at the bottom. It counts how many of the expected fields are filled for Environmental, Social and Governance, ten each, and names the critical ones still missing. On a new entity everything is at zero percent.

10. 10

    Open the Insights panel

    Scroll back to the top and select Insights at the top right of the page. A panel opens on the right. Carbon footprint repeats the scope totals, Emissions intensity the ratios, and Readiness shows how many records are verified, how many reduction targets are active and how many reports are marked as submitted. The note at the bottom puts the same figures into a sentence.

    • Select Show insights panel
11. 11

    Pin the panel, then hide it

    Select Pin to fix the panel beside the page so it stays in view in every section. Select Hide when you need the full width for a wide table. The rest of this course keeps it hidden unless a step says otherwise.

    • Select Pin insights panel to the page
    • Select Hide insights panel
12. 12

    Open a section

    Select Emissions in the In this module list. The list of emission records for the year opens. It is empty, and the line in the table tells you how to start: upload a utility bill or add a manual entry. The other sections open the same way; the rest of this course goes through them in turn.

    • Select Emissions0 (0)