Core principle
Every number should lead back to its evidence.
AWE retains the source, original unit, date, reporting boundary, location and verification context wherever available. A file hash can identify a retained document; it cannot prove the document’s contents are true.
Three questions
Never collapse unlike things.
Environmental performance
What changed in emissions, water, waste, land or another environmental outcome?
Evidence confidence
How traceable, specific and independently checked is the evidence?
Data coverage
How much of the information needed for comparison is available? Missing does not mean zero.
Public confidence language
Plain words, visible uncertainty.
Strong evidence · Moderate evidence · Limited evidence · Claim not independently verified · Conflicting evidence · Insufficient evidence · Unknown.
Future layer
No premature precision.
AWE is not publishing a numeric environmental score in this release. Environmental Evidence Profiles will mature before scoring, with transparent methodology, governance and independent review.
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