Quality, review and assurance
Build confidence in your sustainability data.
VerdaMetric brings data quality, review activity and supporting evidence together, helping you identify potential issues before they reach the reporting stage.
Assess the quality of individual records, keep reviewer comments connected to the data they relate to and maintain clearer audit trails to support reporting, verification and assurance.
Improve confidence in the data behind your reporting
Sustainability reporting relies on information collected from different sources, sites and people. Missing information, inconsistent data and gaps in supporting evidence can make the review process more difficult and create additional work when preparing for reporting or verification.
VerdaMetric brings data quality checks and review activity into the same environment as the underlying sustainability data. Automated warnings can highlight potential issues, while record-level review keeps comments, flags and supporting information connected to the data being assessed. This creates a clearer record of how sustainability data has been collected, checked and reviewed throughout the reporting process.
Key capabilities
Assess individual records against PEF/ILCD data quality criteria, providing a consistent way to understand the quality of data across your inventory.
Identify missing quantities or units, low-quality data, outliers, spend-based proxies and potential coverage gaps before reporting.
Raise comments and flags against individual records so review activity remains connected to the exact data being assessed.
Keep reviewer conversations and their history together, providing a clear record of how questions and issues have been resolved.
Maintain visibility of calculation and data changes throughout the reporting process, providing clearer history behind reported results.
Bring activity data, emission factor mappings and supporting evidence together in one pack to support third-party verification.
Identify data quality issues earlier
Understanding the quality of sustainability data before reporting can help focus review activity where it is needed most.
VerdaMetric’s PEF Data Quality Rating assesses individual records against defined data-quality criteria, providing a consistent way to evaluate the quality of information within the inventory.
Alongside this, exception flags and warnings identify records that may need attention, including missing quantities or units, spend-based proxies, outliers and potential coverage gaps.
Keep review activity at record-level
Reviewers and authorised auditors can raise comments and flags against individual records, keeping questions and responses connected to the data being assessed.
Review threads provide a record of the conversation around each entry, making it easier to see what has been queried, what requires attention and how an issue has been resolved.
This keeps review activity within VerdaMetric rather than relying on separate spreadsheets, email chains or disconnected review notes.
Keep evidence connected to the data it supports
Reviewing sustainability data often means going back to the information behind the original entry.
VerdaMetric allows supporting evidence to remain connected to individual activity records, making it easier for reviewers to access the information behind the data without searching across separate files and systems.
Invoices, meter readings and other supporting documents can be stored against the relevant activity record and reporting year.
Maintain a clear audit trail
As sustainability data moves through calculation and review, maintaining a record of what has changed and why becomes increasingly important. VerdaMetric maintains calculation and change audit trails alongside review activity, helping provide visibility of the history behind reported results.
Together with supporting evidence and record-level review, this provides a clearer trail from the underlying activity data through to the final calculation and reporting process.
Prepare data for verification and assurance
VerdaMetric can also support Tunley Environmental's limited assurance service. Where this service is commissioned separately, Tunley and the client can use the platform's assurance review functionality to review information, raise queries and manage the assurance process within VerdaMetric.
This keeps the review activity connected to the underlying sustainability data and supporting evidence, rather than managing the assurance process separately.
VerdaMetric keeps the information needed for review and verification connected throughout the reporting process, including activity data, supporting evidence, emission factor mappings, calculation trails, data quality records, review comments and approval history.
For third-party verification, a verification audit pack can bring activity data, emission factor mappings and supporting evidence together for export, reducing the need to reconstruct these records when data comes under review.
