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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting

Make Scope 3 category 3 easier to check if it's calculating correct or not.

Currently GHG Inventory Scope 3 cat.3 Fuel and energy related figure cannot be trusted. It shows only two bulk figures that cannot be cross checked with inventory data. For us it currently shows emissions that are over 3 000 000 tCO2 where as othe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Submitted

Add Land Sector and Removals Standard Formatting Requirements

GHG Protocol just released a new land sector and removals standard that requires new GHG reporting requirements for scope 1 and scope 3. It would be nice to have a standard report or power report that allows to report in that new format. In additi...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Planned for future release

Urgent enhancement request to support Japanese IDEA coefficient

Dear Envizi Support Team,Would like to have an urgent enhancement request to support Japanese IDEA coefficient built-in as standard for Japanese SSBJ (Sustainability Standards Board of Japan) framework by end of June 2026.SSBJ and IDEA coefficient...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Future consideration

Monthly Data Summary Report for Scope 3 Emissions

There are little to no reports available for Scope 3 (other than dashboards and PowerReports). Can you please create a Monthly Data Summary Report for Scope 3 Emissions report (excel, not dashboard or PowerReport) which would be required for an au...
8 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Not under consideration

Add Canada-Based Intensity Factor Sets for Scope 3 Estimates

Our understanding, from speaking with IBM, is that it is possible for Envizi to estimate Scope 3 (tenant) emissions, for portions of locations where energy data is not provided. However, it is also our understanding that these estimates are made u...
9 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Future consideration

Ability to categorise Meter Data under Scope 3

Currently, Envizi does not allow the Scope 3 categorisation of meter data. For example, Water Data if sourced via a meter cannot be captured as Scope 3 Cat 1 - Purchased Goods and Services, but it can be if captured via an account. This prevents t...
10 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Functionality already exists

Allow choosing the scope category where indirect emissions calculate in custom factors or make extra field for Scope 3 cat. 1

There are raw materials and ancillary materials that cause scope 1 emissions when used but they also have upstream emissions (scope 3) which should be taken into account too. Currently indirect emissions in custom factors seem to calculate to scop...
10 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Functionality already exists

Separate FERA emissions into component parts (WTT, T&D, WTT of T&D)

It is currently not possible in Envizi to view the emissions of the component parts of FERA; they are calculated and reported together as the 'indirect' emissions of scope 1 and 2. This is an issue for several reasons: The latest version of the SB...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Future consideration

EcoInvent - Average Data Emission Factors

Hi, We have clients that are using EcoInvent emission factors and they would like to use those factors in Envizi as well. Can we have EcoInvent database integrated into Envizi? Thank you in advance.
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Future consideration

Provide contextual information for the AI model to use to refine its suggested categorisation for spend based.

I have recently tried to use the AI for categorisation of data for hospitals and it's a mixed result. I have tried steering the results towards medical related classifications but this tended to reduce the accuracy. If the model processed each lin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting Future consideration