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Target setting and tracking

Use the IBM® Envizi ESG Suite Target setting and tracking module to capture and track sustainability performance targets at any level of your organization. You can compare the performance of consumption, costs, emissions, and energy use that are associated with various types of activity data over time to a set of target values. You can set targets to match your goal setting and performance management practices and to meet voluntary or compliance reporting needs.

Here are some examples of targets that an organization might want to set:
  • Reduce annual CO2 emissions by 1000 kilotonnes (kt), compared to a baseline of the organization's CO2 emissions for the previous year
  • Reduce electricity consumption to a maximum of 10,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month by the year 2028
  • Reduce water consumption to less than 10,000 gallons per day over a two-year period
  • Divert 75% or more of waste away from landfill to recycling or composting by 2026

In the performance dashboards, you can compare actual data to a target. For example, you might have a target to reduce monthly electricity consumption at a particular location. In a performance dashboard, you can review whether the location is on track to meet the target. You can view a chart that compares the actual monthly electricity consumption over the previous year with the target consumption.

Target structure

You configure targets in two parts:
Target
The target is the folder or container that contains the target data. The target has a set of parameters that control the type of target data that can be captured, such as the period it covers and the type of target that is being tracked.
Target data
The target data is located in the target. The target data is recorded as monthly values against various data types or data groupings and against different levels of the organization hierarchy. One target can have thousands of points of target data.

Managing target data

With a small number of targets, you can manage target data manually within the platform. For a larger set of targets, it can be more efficient to use a target data template to upload and update target data.