Sustainability Business Information Model: AI-Ready Edition

Sustainability Business Information Model: AI-Ready Edition sets out the information the sustainability function works with, so architects and transformation leads in financial services firms can see what an AI agent would read and how carefully it must be handled: 14 subject areas, 100 entities, 674 key attributes and 346 relationships. Every entity and key attribute has a sensitivity class, the AI uses it serves and the data-quality requirements an agent relies on. It is the information model inside Sustainability Business Architecture Package: AI Transformation Blueprint, sold separately.

Subject Areas

14 subject areas group the 100 entities.

• Sustainability Strategy, Materiality & Finance (8 entities). Scope: The direction and funding of sustainability: the ambition, the roadmap initiatives that deliver it, the topics judged material and how they were assessed, the program budget, and the sustainability inputs to Finance's decisions (the internal carbon price proposal, capital appraisal effects and financing support).
• Targets, Governance & Policy (6 entities). Scope: What the organization commits to and how it is governed: targets with their baselines and every change to them, the objectives cascaded to business units and sites, the bodies that oversee sustainability, and the policies and public commitments.
• Emissions Inventory (8 entities). Scope: The records behind the emissions inventory: the operating sites and inventory boundary, the emission sources, the activity data, the emission factors and calculation methods approved for reported figures, each calculation and the inventory for a reporting period.
• Emissions Reduction & Energy (6 entities). Scope: How emissions and energy use come down: the decarbonization pathway, reduction opportunities and the projects admitted to the reduction program, energy use by site, energy efficiency measures and renewable energy agreements.
• Climate Risk & Adaptation (5 entities). Scope: Climate risk and adaptation: the hazards sites and suppliers are exposed to, transition risks and opportunities, the plausible climate futures the organization chose to test against, the modeled results and the adaptation actions that follow.
• Carbon Credits (5 entities). Scope: Carbon credits from policy to retirement: the credit policy, the projects considered, their quality assessments, purchases and retirements.
• Water, Waste, Nature & Environmental Impact (11 entities). Scope: Water, waste, nature and environmental impact: water risk and use, wastewater discharges, waste streams and where waste goes, nature impact and dependency assessments, habitat actions, land clearing checks on sourced materials, environmental assessments of projects, site environmental plans and significant incident reviews.
• Products & Circularity (7 entities). Scope: Products and circularity: the products in scope, the product and packaging sustainability criteria, the footprint method and released footprints, substances of concern, end-of-life plans and circular offers such as repair, resale and take-back.
• Suppliers & Sourcing Requirements (9 entities). Scope: What suppliers are asked to meet and how they are assessed: supplier conduct expectations, category criteria, material origin records, risk ratings, data requests, assessments, corrective actions and referrals to Supply Chain.
• Human Rights & Concerns (5 entities). Scope: Human rights in the value chain: salient risks, impact assessments, concerns raised by value chain workers and community members, their resolution and the remedy for people harmed.
• Stakeholders & Communities (8 entities). Scope: Stakeholders and communities: stakeholder groups and dialogue, information requests and questionnaires, sustainability partnerships, the communities around sites, community investment programs, grants and social impact evaluations.
• Sustainability Data & Assurance (9 entities). Scope: The governance of sustainability data: measure definitions, data source owners, measure values with their basis, estimation rules, data quality issues, data controls designed with Finance, evidence records, assurance engagements and their findings.
• Disclosures & Claims (6 entities). Scope: Disclosures and claims: the disclosures the organization makes, the content items in each, restatements of reported figures, environmental and social claims, the evidence reviews behind them and their corrections.
• AI & Digital Labor Governance (7 entities). Scope: The governance of sustainability's AI: the AI systems and agents in use, their action logs, the decisions they supported, validation records, human reviews and the authority limits each agent works within.

In the Download

Three files carry the same model: the full model in Word, a workbook for analysis and a guide.

• For each of the 100 entities: definition, typical system of record, sensitivity class, AI uses and data-quality requirements
• 674 key attributes rated for sensitivity and AI relevance, and 346 relationships with cardinality
• The capabilities that need each entity and the agents that read it, by name and ID
• Business Data Model (Word), every subject area and entity in full
• Workbook (Excel), with subject areas, entities, attributes and relationships to filter and extend
• Guide (Word), covering the scales, the data foundation and the license
• Corrections free of charge, and new versions free for 180 days after purchase

Your organization's name and license ID are printed in every file.

Who It Is For

Data owners and stewards, data architects, and the AI and analytics engineers who decide what an agent may read, how sensitive it is and what quality it needs first; and architects connecting capabilities to data.

With the Other Editions

The capabilities listed under each entity are defined in the Sustainability Capability Matrix: AI-Ready Edition. Sustainability Business Architecture Package: AI Transformation Blueprint contains this model, specifies the agents and adds the value streams, use cases, controls, operating model and roadmap. The Sustainability Value Stream Catalog is sold on its own as well.