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Domain B

Sustainability Context and Subject-Matter Literacy

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Analyse the organisation's sustainability context and apply sufficient subject-matter literacy to identify reporting information needs, challenge inputs, understand cross-topic relationships and communicate information accurately, while recognising and controlling the use of qualified specialist expertise.

Core question
Does the practitioner understand the organisation, value chain and sustainability matters well enough to structure, question and integrate reporting information while recognising the limits of their expertise and using specialist input where required?
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Area B-CA1 · Sustainability context, business model and system relationships

Analyse the organisational and external sustainability context, business model and value chain, and distinguish and connect impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.

IDCompetency unitStatus
B.1Analyse sustainability context and environmental, social and economic system relationshipsWorking Draft
B.2Map the business model, activities and value chainWorking Draft
B.3Distinguish and connect impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunitiesWorking Draft
Area B-CA2 · Environmental reporting literacy

Apply sufficient climate, greenhouse-gas, nature, pollution, resource-use and circularity literacy to structure reporting work, challenge evidence and identify specialist needs.

IDCompetency unitStatus
B.4Apply climate and greenhouse-gas reporting literacyWorking Draft
B.5Apply nature, water, pollution, waste, resource-use and circularity reporting literacyWorking Draft
Area B-CA3 · Social and governance reporting literacy and cross-topic integration

Apply sufficient workforce, human-rights, social, governance and business-conduct literacy and integrate specialist evidence and cross-topic relationships into reporting work.

IDCompetency unitStatus
B.6Apply workforce, human rights, affected communities, consumers and wider social reporting literacyWorking Draft
B.7Apply corporate governance and business-conduct reporting literacyWorking Draft
B.8Integrate cross-topic analysis and specialist inputWorking Draft