Data processing at the European level in the TERAIN database: A smart dashboard prototype for corporate environmental performance assessment

Abstract

This document explain the methodology (data, variables, calculation, etc.) used to evaluate CEP of European companies. First, section 2 presents an overview of TERAIN Europe, highlighting the main differences with other environmental reporting databases. Second, section 3 details the raw data used to create the TERAIN dashboard of European companies. Section 4 then details the way that we assess the potential harms to human health and the environment depending on the nature of the pollutants. For this purpose, we refer to a series of toxicity weighting factors, explaining how they are established and applied. And finally, section 5 underlines the scores and indexes of TERAIN, as a consultation guide.