Organisations report on indicators that reflect their objectives and that are relevant to stakeholders. ISA provides a suite of over a thousand detailed indicators. However, if you or your stakeholders do not require this amount of detail, you can choose aggregate indicators. For example water use can either be reported on as a single (top level) indicator or it can be broken down into the categories mains water, self-supplied water, and reuse water.
Other indicators in the ISA suite have far more detail. For example the indicator energy consumption includes more than 480 separate components aggregated into 28 categories that can be accounted for either at the top level (energy consumption), aggregate level (e.g. black coal) or individual component level (e.g. black coal, Kilns) if necessary. The level of detail you choose will reflect the needs and interests of your organisation and its stakeholders. The ISA reporting framework has over a thousand detailed indicators aggregated into over 180 categories which in turn are aggregated into more than 20 top-level indicators like water use and energy use. Top-level indicators include such items as: imports, employment, greenhouse gas emissions, land disturbance, land use and material flow.
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