What is the Statement Editor?

The Statement Editor enables you to create and work with your company's sustainability statement. All data from both automatic and manual consolidation is structured according to ESRS guidelines and Position Green's in-house Advisory expertise. The standard allows you to present information in a relevant way, rather than strictly following a datapoint-by-datapoint format.

Getting started with the Statement Editor

1. Ensure that consolidation of data is complete and you are ready to generate a statement

2. Go to the ESRS menu, click Sustainability Statement, and start the statement generation by Clicking Get started. It will take a moment to load while it imports the consolidated responses. 

We recommend consolidating as many disclosures as possible before generating the statement, since adding data in the Data Reporting view, and running the consolidation again will overwrite your existing narrative, unless you've already edited it from the Statement Editor. 

Features in the Statement Editor

The Statement Editor has many features available as in online word editors, and allows you to freely edit the contents of the sustainability statement.

Here are a few useful features in the Statement Editor that we would like to highlight:

Collaboration

The Statement Editor allows for simultaneous editing, you will be able to see who else is editing the statement in the upper right corner of the Statement Editor.

Add comments 

The Statement Editor allows you to comment on selected texts and then track those comments and changes.

Hide/ show questions and instructions

Questions and instructions have been added to the Statement Editor to help you understand how to structure your report and ensure consistency across your reporting. These texts are visible while working in the Statement Editor but can easily be hidden when not needed, just clicking on the “Show questions and instructions” icon, located in the statement toolbar.

You can decide whether you want to include the questions and instructions when exporting your statement. When exporting a statement to Word, a pop-up window appears with export options. Use the toggle switch to choose whether to include or exclude questions in the export

Revision history

This allows you to save a current version of the sustainability statement also revisit previous versions.

Export to Word

This feature makes it possible to export to Microsoft Word and continue working in that application. Any comments made in the Statement Editor will also be visible in the exported Word-file.

You will then be asked if you want to include the questions and instructions in your export as mentioned in the above section. 

Update the statement

When a consolidated response has been updated in Consolidate Data you will need to click Update in the statement editor for this change to be included in the Sustainability Statement.

Keep in mind that Update button will replace outdated consolidated responses in the statement with updated ones, excluding any text that has already been edited directly in the Sustainability Statement.

Delete the statement

If you would like to delete the existing statement and start over, you can do so by going to the 3 dots in the upper right corner and clicking "Delete". Before deleting the statement it's recommended to download it as a Word-file.