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# Sustainability analytics

> Sustainability analytics in Business Central covers ways to analyze sustainability data: ad-hoc Data Analysis, financial reports, standard sustainability reports, external ESG reporting for CSRD, and the Power BI sustainability app. It answers questions about which tool to use for emissions, CO2e, carbon fee and ESG analysis.

Path: [Business functionality](../../business-functionality.md) > [Sustainability management](../sustainability-management.md) > Sustainability analytics · tier official · system sustainability · narrative reviewed (checked by Opus)

## Overview

This area groups the analysis and reporting options for sustainability data in Business Central. Some work inside the client: Data Analysis on list pages for sustainability ledger entries, financial reports that mix sustainability, carbon fee and CO2e data with financial and statistical data, and standard reports with the Role Explorer.

Other pages cover external reporting and dashboards. The External ESG reporting page describes CSRD-oriented reporting through Dataverse integration, assessments and posted reports. The Power BI sustainability app subtopic (13 pages) covers the app, its reports, the semantic model, and the KPIs and measures.

To start, pick the page that matches the task. For quick exploration, use ad-hoc analysis. For reports built on accounts, use financial reporting. For dashboards across emissions, water, waste, social, target and baseline data, go to the Power BI app. For CSRD compliance, go to External ESG reporting.

## Key points

- Ad-hoc analysis uses the Data Analysis feature, with pivot mode, on sustainability ledger entries from list pages.
- Sustainability financial reporting uses row and column definitions to show sustainability accounts, carbon fees and CO2e next to financial data.
- The Track Item of Concern report monitors inbound and outbound transactions of items marked with the Item of Concern field.
- The Role Explorer and the Sustainability FastTab support emissions analysis and high emission tracking.
- External ESG reporting for CSRD needs Dataverse integration, assessment templates, data source configuration, ESG data synchronization and report calculation.
- ESG reports are posted, and posted reports can be reviewed afterward.
- The Power BI sustainability app has reports for emissions, water, waste, social (ESG), targets and baselines, plus a documented semantic model and KPIs.

## Subtopics

- [Power BI sustainability app](sustainability-analytics/power-bi-sustainability-app.md) (13 pages)

## More Learn pages

- [Ad-hoc analysis of sustainability data](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/ad-hoc-analysis-sustainability): Learn how to use the data analysis mode to analyze sustainability data.
- [Handle External ESG reporting](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/sustainability-esg-reporting): Learn how to set up, run and export External ESG reports.
- [Sustainability financial reporting](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/sustainability-fin-reporting): Describes how to use financial reports to create various views and reports for analyzing sustainability performance data.
- [Sustainability reports and analytics](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/sustainability-reports): Explore the sustainability reports and analytics in the standard version of Business Central.

## Videos, posts and code changes

Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item's summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated.

- [#10311 [Master] - Slice 640778: [Sustainability] Sustainability Entries should be more easy to find like other entries across BC](../../../../changes/bcapps/10311.md) (code change): "Sustainability entries can now be found more easily through a Find"
- [#12053 Remove-Sustainability-CLEAN27-tags-for-Wave2-2026](../../../../changes/bcapps/12053.md) (code change): "Removes code marked for cleanup in version 27 from the Sustainability, Power BI Reports"

## Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub's Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

- [Page 104 "Account Schedule"](../../../../objects/page/104.md) · captioned "(Financial Report) Row Definition" · on [Table 85 "Acc. Schedule Line"](../../../../objects/table/85.md)
- [Page 108 "Financial Reports"](../../../../objects/page/108.md) · on [Table 88 "Financial Report"](../../../../objects/table/88.md)
- [Page 490 "Acc. Schedule Overview"](../../../../objects/page/490.md) · captioned "Financial Report" · on [Table 85 "Acc. Schedule Line"](../../../../objects/table/85.md)
- [Page 6220 "Sustainability Ledger Entries"](../../../../objects/page/6220.md) · on [Table 6216 "Sustainability Ledger Entry"](../../../../objects/table/6216.md)
- [Report 6210 "Emission By Category"](../../../../objects/report/6210.md)
- [Report 6211 "Emission Per Facility"](../../../../objects/report/6211.md)
- [Report 6212 "Total Emissions"](../../../../objects/report/6212.md)
- [Report 6221 "Sust. Adjust Emissions"](../../../../objects/report/6221.md) · captioned "Adjust Emissions"
- [Page 36951 "PowerBI Reports Setup"](../../../../objects/page/36951.md) · captioned "Power BI Reports Setup" · on [Table 36951 "PowerBI Reports Setup"](../../../../objects/table/36951.md) · via [Power BI sustainability app](sustainability-analytics/power-bi-sustainability-app.md)

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