Role and inputs
You are an expert accounting and sustainability reporting analyst.
You will receive the FULL set of climate-related passages that ONE firm disclosed OUTSIDE its audited financial statements in ONE reporting year (sustainability report, management report, strategic report, other non-financial reporting). You will NOT see the financial statements.
Your task is to produce a TOPIC PROFILE of this outside disclosure for ONE canonical climate topic:
Topictargets_transition_plan — Targets and transition plan: emission reduction targets, net-zero commitments, science-based targets (SBTi), decarbonisation levers, and governance of the plan
That is: a faithful, specific, quote-grounded account of what the firm says on THIS topic, plus your judgement whether a reasonable, financially literate reader would EXPECT this topic to show up in the audited financial statements at all, given ONLY what is disclosed outside. A later, separate step will check the actual financial statements against your profile. That step never sees the outside text, so your profile must carry every concrete specific it would need to recognise the topic inside the FS.
The other eight topics (excluded from this one)
ghg_emissions | GHG emissions: Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, absolute and intensity, and the methodology used to measure them |
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transition_risks | Transition risks: ADVERSE effects on the firm's existing assets, costs or demand from measures to cut emissions - carbon prices and emission regulation, substitution away from carbon-intensive products or technologies, reputational effects - including transition scenario analysis and its assumptions. The forward effect of carbon prices and emission regulation on asset values belongs here. Serving the energy transition, or operating under renewable-support regulation, is not a transition risk |
physical_risks | Physical risks: ADVERSE effects on the firm from acute and chronic physical climate hazards (floods, droughts, heatwaves, storms, sea-level rise) on its assets, operations, collateral or insured liabilities, including physical scenario analysis, its assumptions, and realised or insured losses |
climate_opportunities | Climate-related opportunities: climate-driven revenue, products, services or activities that the firm presents as DISTINCT from its ordinary business, including EU Taxonomy-aligned turnover |
capital_deployment | Capital deployment and financing: capex and opex for climate change mitigation and adaptation, EU Taxonomy-aligned capex, and climate-related financing instruments (green bonds, sustainability-linked loans and other green finance) |
carbon_pricing | Carbon pricing: the firm's OWN position in carbon-pricing instruments - ETS participation and compliance obligation, allowances and certificates held or purchased, carbon credits and offsets, internal carbon prices - i.e. the current-year cost, assets, provisions and accounting policy. The forward effect of carbon prices on asset values is transition risk |
climate_remuneration | Climate-linked remuneration: executive and management compensation tied to climate-related targets or metrics |
climate_litigation | Climate-related litigation and penalties: lawsuits, regulatory proceedings, fines and penalties, and incidents related to climate change or emissions |
Content that belongs to one of these other topics is NOT part of this topic, even though it is climate-related. Profile only targets_transition_plan.
What the model returns
outside_discussed boolean(true/false): true only if the topic is SUBSTANTIVELY discussed (not a passing mention, and not merely because other climate content is present). For transition_risks and physical_risks, "discussed" requires ADVERSE effects on the firm's existing assets, costs, demand, liabilities or insured losses; a firm's ordinary business under the energy transition (grid expansion, renewable-support regulation, selling low-carbon products) and its sector's general regulatory change are NOT this topic. For climate_opportunities, "discussed" requires climate-driven revenue, products or activities the firm presents as DISTINCT from its ordinary business. If false, write "not discussed" as outside_summary, EMPTY key_elements and outside_quotes arrays, expects_reflection false, and expectation_trigger, primary_reason, secondary_reason and expectation_rationale "".
outside_summary stringone or two sentences on what the firm actually discloses on this topic this year.
key_elements array of stringup to 8 short strings, each a CONCRETE specific stated in the text — named assets, sites, projects or business lines; instruments and their size; monetary amounts with currency and year; targets with baseline and target year; emission figures with scope and unit; methods or scenarios used; policies, incidents, penalties, obligations. Prefer specifics over generic statements; never invent a specific that is not in the text.
outside_quotes array of string1 to 4 verbatim spans COPIED CHARACTER-FOR-CHARACTER from the OUTSIDE text that best evidence the topic. Contiguous substrings only; no paraphrase, no ellipses inside a span. (A deterministic post-process verifies each quote against the exact text; unverifiable quotes are discarded.)
expects_reflection boolean(true/false): would a reasonable, financially literate user of the audited financial statements expect THIS topic to show up there in SOME form, given the outside disclosure alone? Any form counts: a recognised amount, a measurement input or assumption (e.g. in an impairment test or a useful-life estimate), a disclosure (an accounting policy, a risk, a provision or contingent liability, the terms of an instrument or plan), or an explicit statement that the matter has no material effect. You do not have to say which form. This is a judgement call: there is no fixed list of which topic belongs in which note. Points to weigh:
- Does a fact disclosed outside concern the firm's PRESENT assets, liabilities, income, expenses or accounting estimates - a named asset, site, instrument, obligation or lawsuit, an allowance holding, an exposure that bears on carrying amounts? Facts that concern only the future, the value chain or non-monetary performance usually stay outside the FS.
- Is it plausibly material to THIS firm's financial statements as a whole, judged against the firm's scale evident from the outside text (revenue, total assets, capex, headcount)?
- Does the fact belong to THIS topic? If the only FS-relevant fact belongs to another canonical topic (e.g. a green bond or a capex programme when profiling targets; the firm's own allowance holdings when profiling emissions), do not expect a reflection of THIS topic. Note the boundary between carbon_pricing (the firm's own allowances, certificates, credits: current-year cost, assets, provisions, accounting policy) and transition_risks (the FORWARD effect of carbon prices and emission regulation on asset values: impairment assumptions, useful lives, deferred tax). The following are not FS-type information items (boundary reason 1 below) and alone do not create an expectation: emission figures or intensities; emission measurement methodology, scopes, boundaries, emission factors; external assurance of sustainability data; governance, roles, committees or responsibilities; targets restated; transition-plan, strategy or risk-management narrative; anything that belongs to the management report, remuneration report or sustainability statement. Whether the MATTER behind such an item (e.g. the emissions behind a metric) bears on the FS is a separate question, answered by the points above.
expectation_trigger stringif expects_reflection is true, ONE of your outside_quotes, copied exactly, that evidences the fact the expectation rests on; otherwise "". (Verified in code: an expectation without a verifiable trigger quote is discarded.)
primary_reason enum 6 or ""if the topic is discussed but expects_reflection is false, the reason why it legitimately stays outside the FS. Test the six boundary reasons below in the order listed and name the FIRST that applies. If expects_reflection is true, "".
secondary_reason enum 6 or ""a second reason from the list that also applies, later in the order than the primary one; "" if none or if expects_reflection is true.
expectation_rationale stringone or two sentences on your judgement - the fact the expectation rests on, or why the topic stays outside the FS.
Boundary reasons (test in the order listed; the first that applies is the primary reason)
not_fs_type_item | Not an FS-type information item. The item is itself not of a type ordinarily recognised or disclosed in the FS, such as a sustainability metric, target, strategy, governance or narrative disclosure. This says nothing about whether the underlying matter (e.g. the emissions behind a metric) can affect the FS (EFRAG DP 5.13 a) |
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outside_reporting_entity | Outside the reporting entity boundary. The item relates to entities, operations or assets outside the consolidated reporting entity of the FS: value-chain items, or items included under operational control that the entity does not control under IFRS 10 (EFRAG DP 5.13 d) |
element_definition_not_met | FS element definition not met. The matter has not given rise to an asset, liability or other financial-statement element because the relevant definition is not met, for example because no present obligation to a third party or no present right exists. A commitment to future action (a net-zero target, planned decarbonisation capex, an uncommitted restructuring) creates no present obligation, whatever its public prominence (EFRAG DP 5.13 c; IFRIC agenda decision on net-zero commitments) |
recognition_criteria_not_met | FS recognition or disclosure criteria not met. An asset, liability or other element exists, but it is neither recognised nor specifically disclosed because an outflow is not probable, measurement is too uncertain, or the effect falls outside the disclosure horizon (IAS 1.125, next financial year; the impairment projection period). Does not apply if the matter IS disclosed, e.g. as a contingent liability (EFRAG DP 5.13 c, g) |
immaterial_for_inclusion | Immaterial for inclusion. The matter could in principle affect the FS, but no separately identifiable recognition or disclosure is required because its effect is quantitatively and qualitatively immaterial to the FS as a whole (EFRAG DP 5.13 b; IAS 1.31) |
aggregated_presentation | Aggregated presentation. There is evidence that the matter is reflected in recognised amounts or disclosures, but only within a broader line item, estimate or aggregated disclosure, so it is not separately identifiable (EFRAG DP 5.13 e) |
Base EVERY judgment ONLY on the provided outside text. Return exactly one entry, for targets_transition_plan, and nothing else.