Energy, Water, Waste & Biodiversity
Measure and manage energy, water, waste, pollution and nature with correct aggregation, worked examples and assurance-ready indicators.
- Last updated 12 Nov 2026
- English
- Intermediate
- 7 CPD hours
What you’ll learn
- Apply correct aggregation rules for flows and stocks and compute environmental indicators from approved totals
- Convert energy use to GJ and calculate renewable shares of electricity and of total energy
- Build a water balance and identify withdrawal in water-stressed areas
- Classify waste under the waste hierarchy and GRI 306 and calculate diversion rates
- Estimate key air pollutants and describe discharge quality reporting
- Screen sites for biodiversity sensitivity and explain the TNFD LEAP approach
Course content
6 sections · 23 lessons · 6h 37m total length
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The environmental pillar is more than emissions
Climate gets the headlines, but the environmental pillar of ESG also covers how a company uses energy, water and materials, what it releases into air, water and soil, and how it affects ecosystems. For many businesses in MENA, Africa, Southern Europe and Latin America, these topics are as financially material as carbon: water scarcity can stop a plant, waste rules can change packaging costs, and biodiversity impacts can delay permits or close export markets.
How frameworks organise the topics
Topic ESRS (EU) GRI Energy (within climate) E1 Climate change GRI 302 Energy Pollution E2 Pollution GRI 305-7 (air pollutants), effluent disclosures Water E3 Water and marine resources GRI 303 Water and effluents Biodiversity E4 Biodiversity and ecosystems GRI 304, being replaced by GRI 101 Biodiversity Circular economy and waste E5 Resource use and circular economy GRI 306 Waste Regional frameworks draw on the same building blocks. Egypt's FRA ESG KPI form includes environmental indicator groups (E1 to E5), the Saudi Exchange guidelines and GCC unified metrics include energy, water and waste, and the Nairobi Securities Exchange manual covers resource use.
Why these topics are material
- Cost: energy and water bills, waste disposal fees.
- Continuity: water shortages, power cuts, permit suspensions.
- Market access: EU buyers ask about packaging, recycled content, deforestation and pollution.
- Licence to operate: communities and regulators react to pollution and water competition.
- Finance: lenders apply environmental and social risk categories and covenants.
Vignette: a Jordanian food processor
A food processor near Amman faced a water allocation cut during a dry summer. It had no metering below the main connection and could not say which lines used the most water. A simple sub-metering programme found that cleaning-in-place systems used 40% of the site's water. Re-programming cleaning cycles and reusing final rinse water cut withdrawal by a fifth, and the company now reports water withdrawal, discharge and consumption monthly.
What you will learn
- How to collect and aggregate environmental data correctly (flows versus stocks, indicators, logic checks).
- Energy accounting in GJ and renewable shares.
- Water withdrawal, discharge and consumption, and water risk.
- Waste, diversion and the circular economy; pollution.
- Biodiversity, protected areas and an introduction to the TNFD.
Examples show how Phi stores these figures as ESG data metrics with unit conversion, evidence and maker-checker approval, each linked to a pillar and an ESRS topic so it follows the materiality assessment.
· Article Preview 20:00 - Flows, stocks and the rules of aggregation · Article 22:00
- Building a reliable environmental data process · Article 20:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 03:00
- Energy accounting in gigajoules · Article 22:00
- Renewable energy share and how to claim it · Article 22:00
- Energy management systems and efficiency · Article 22:00
- Linking energy, cost and emissions in decision-making · Article 20:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- Withdrawal, discharge and consumption · Article 24:00
- Water stress and water-related risk · Article 22:00
- Water efficiency, reuse and discharge quality · Article 20:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- Waste classification and the waste hierarchy · Article 22:00
- Waste metrics and the circular economy · Article 22:00
- Pollution: air, water and soil · Article 22:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- Biodiversity and business · Article 22:00
- Introduction to the TNFD and the LEAP approach · Article 22:00
- Sites in or near protected areas: screening and reporting · Article 20:00
- Assembling the environmental indicator set · Article 22:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- Final assessment · Quiz 12:00
Requirements
- Basic familiarity with ESG reporting concepts
Who this course is for
- Environmental, health and safety (EHS) managers
- Sustainability and ESG reporting teams
- Facility, operations and energy managers
- Consultants supporting environmental disclosure
Description
The environmental pillar of ESG goes far beyond carbon. For companies in water-stressed MENA, fast-growing African markets, drought-hit Southern Europe and nature-rich Brazil, energy, water, waste, pollution and biodiversity are often just as financially material as emissions.
This intermediate course teaches the practical measurement and management of each topic: converting energy to gigajoules and calculating renewable shares, building a water balance of withdrawal, discharge and consumption, classifying waste and calculating diversion rates, estimating air pollutants, and screening sites near protected areas. It introduces the TNFD and its LEAP approach, and maps every metric to GRI and ESRS.
A recurring theme is data discipline: flows versus stocks, computed indicators that are empty rather than zero when data is missing, and logic checks that catch impossible numbers before they reach a report.
Your instructor
Sustainability, governance and investor-relations faculty at Corprise.ai
- 0 students
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Corprise Academy is the teaching team behind Phi and Corprise IR. Our courses are written from real reporting projects in Egypt, the Gulf, North Africa and Europe.
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