What's New in Lucanet ESG Reporting?

As an ESG Administrator, you can now add custom questions to the Questionnaire Builder that go beyond the standard ESRS or VSME reporting standards. This allows the collection of organization-specific metrics, voluntary disclosures, or internal KPIs within the same ESG data collection workflow.

The Add custom question button is available at disclosure requirement level. The following question types are available:

New custom questions are assigned to all reporting entities by default, and are hidden automatically if their parent disclosure requirement is hidden.

For more information, see Adding Custom Questions.

As an ESG Administrator, you can now export emission data directly from the aggregated report page. A new Export Emission Data option is available in the Export menu, alongside the existing Export Questionnaire Data option.

For more information, see Exporting Data.

When selecting an emission factor for a footprint, the factor list is now automatically narrowed to the factors relevant to that scope. The list is filtered by the footprint's GHG scope — and, for Scope 3, additionally by its GHG Protocol category — so that only applicable factors are offered.

The filter dropdowns (Location, Sector, Sub-sector, and Unit Type) now show only options that return at least one result in the current context, and you can apply them in any order. Changing or removing one filter refreshes the other dropdowns and the factor list without clearing your remaining selections.

For more information, see Filling Out the Emissions Module.

Moreover, when creating a custom emission factor, a new GHG Scope & Category field lets you define the scopes and categories the factor applies to. This way, custom emission factors are included in the same filtering and only appear where they are relevant. Leave the field empty to make the factor available across all scopes and categories.

Until this release, it was difficult to get an overview of which documents, if any, were attached to answers. This information was only available in the Attachments three-dot menu, which had to be opened for each answer individually. As of this release, the questionnaire now clearly shows when one or more documents are attached to an answer. This lets you identify answers with additional attachments at a glance without having to open the Attachments menu of each answer individually.

When you hover over the Completed icon of an answer in the questionnaire, the tooltip now shows who marked the question as complete and when, i.e. the name of the user, followed by the date and time. Previously, the tooltip displayed only Completed.

For more information, see Editing Data.

The ESG Reporting user interface has been modernized to ensure a more consistent experience; the available functionality is unchanged.

You can now use our AI-supported workflow to import GHG data saved in an MS Excel table. The imported GHG data is generated as footprint suggestions in the Emissions module by AI. After the import, you can review and either accept or reject the footprint suggestions.

For the review, you can access the following:

You can then either accept or reject individual footprints or multiple footprints at once, or make adjustments before accepting the footprint suggestion, such as to the Scope and Category mappings, footprint name, location, sector and sub-sector, etc.

When editing a footprint, you can refer to the source Excel row number and sheet name. After having finished the edits, you can confirm the review to create your footprints, or save the review as a draft to continue later.

For more information, see Filling Out the Emissions Module.

ESG Administrators can now add company-specific, additional notes on questions in the Questionnaire Builder, both when configuring the Questionnaire and during data collection. Customized additional guidance is displayed for ESG Data Collectors as well as Reviewers alongside the standard guidelines, and a visual indicator distinguishes company-specific notes from standard guidelines.

Additional guidance is preserved when an ESG report is duplicated.

When an ESG Administrator adds or modifies additional guidance after a reporting entity has already submitted their ESG report, or the ESG report has been approved, the ESG report reverts to the In Progress status.

For more information, see Using the Questionnaire Builder.

Previously, when reopening an ESG report after it had been approved to enable one reporting entity to change and re-submit their report data, all other reporting entities also had to submit their report data. As of this release, ESG Administrators can reopen an ESG report for specific reporting entities. The option is available in the Data Collection page and restores edit access for the assigned data collector(s).

For more information, see Reopening an ESG Report.

It is now possible to export EU Taxonomy reports. ESG Administrators can export EU Taxonomy reports as Excel files directly from the desired report page in the Reports and Activities workspace. The export functionality generates an Excel file containing four worksheets:

The exported file follows the EU Taxonomy reporting template structure, includes the reporting period and currency from master data, and consolidates activities with the same EU Taxonomy code into single rows. When the export is complete, the file is automatically downloaded in your browser.

For more information, see Exporting Data.

When creating a new ESG report in the master data configuration, you can now choose the ESRS 2.0 reporting standard as a third option alongside ESRS and VSME. ESRS 2.0 is based on the draft published by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). As the final version is not yet released, you can use this reporting requirement for now to test and prepare for these requirements, if needed.

ESRS 2.0 provides the same questionnaire structure as the standard ESRS hierarchy: General Disclosures, Environmental, Social, and Governance. However, compared to ESRS, the ESRS 2.0 structure is shorter and less complex.

The process of data collection, aggregation, and reporting is the same as for ESRS, except for the fact that it is not possible to map the Double Materiality Assessment results.

For more information, see Creating an ESG Report.

The following translations have been added for the VSME report guideline: Spanish, Polish, and Dutch. Additionally, the ESRS report guideline is now available in Italian.

The text fields for collecting data for the ESG report questionnaire or the EU Taxonomy report now support 1,000 characters instead of 500 characters, i.e., you can now enter explanatory text containing up to 1,000 characters for your collected data.