Aeion ESG for Regulatory Reporting
ESG regulatory reporting is no longer optional. EU CSRD (50K+ companies in scope), California SB 253 (>$1B revenue), SEC Climate Disclosure (large accelerated filers), CDP voluntary disclosure, GRI standards, SBTi target validation. Legacy ESG platforms (Watershed, Persefoni, Sweep, Greenly, Plan A) cost $100K-1M+/year for full Scope 1/2/3 carbon accounting. Aeion ESG auto-captures emissions from fulfillment, SCM, and smart-spaces operational events natively — less manual data entry, a fully traceable carbon ledger, and GHG Protocol / GRI / CDP exports out of the box. Three walkthroughs: global manufacturer, retail chain, financial services firm.
The ESG Regulatory Landscape (2024-2026+)
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Walkthrough — Global Manufacturer (CSRD + SB 253)
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Walkthrough — Retail Chain / Consumer Brand
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Walkthrough — Financial Services Firm (Operational Footprint)
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FAQ
No. Aeion ESG computes a CSRD/ESRS readiness score against your real ledger coverage (E1 climate + E3 water + E5 waste) and generates GRI/CDP disclosure tags — but there's no native XBRL tagging or full ESRS data-point auto-population, and S1-S4/G1 qualitative disclosures aren't covered.
There's no dedicated Watershed/Persefoni connector today. Historical emissions would come in through Aeion Singularity's general CSV/API import tooling.
Supplier Assessments track a 0-100 ESG score (environmental, labor practices, governance) plus emissions data quality tiering (supplier-provided / industry-average / spend-based estimate).
Every carbon-ledger entry carries its source event, source module, and a calculation-details record of the factors and inputs used. There's no separate formal reviewer/approval workflow built into the module.
Aeion ESG tracks a target's baseline year, reduction %, target date, and progress — useful for tracking an SBTi-validated commitment — but there's no submission integration with the SBTi validation body itself.
GHG Protocol, CSRD readiness, GRI 302/305, and CDP Climate Change tagging are native. TCFD, PRI, PCAF, SFDR, and SDR-specific templates aren't — those disclosures need to be assembled from the GHG/CSRD export outside the platform.
Emission factors are named/categorized records (e.g., "US Grid Electricity") with a factor, unit, and source — you can maintain region-specific factors, but there's no automatic per-country/per-grid lookup built in.
Not a dedicated feature. Product-level emissions would need to be modeled as carbon-ledger entries allocated to a product via metadata, not a purpose-built PCF calculator.
Each initiative tracks baseline year, target reduction %, target date, status, and progress %. Cost/ROI modeling for an initiative runs through Aeion Finance alongside it, not inside the ESG module.
Aeion Finance handles the cost side of initiatives; Aeion ESG owns the emissions and target-tracking side.
The audit trail on each ledger entry (source, calculation details, timestamp) is what you'd hand an auditor. There's no built-in assurance-level workflow (limited vs. reasonable) or engagement-letter tooling.
The initiative burn-down view and carbon-ledger data are the inputs; scenario planning and pathway analysis are done in Aeion Finance/BI, not a dedicated ESG scenario-modeling feature.