Whether you are just starting your sustainability journey or already have sustainability reporting and compliance processes and targets in place, MI Sustainability has a flexible package for every stage.
As investors, customers and employees demand tangible action, and sustainability reporting shifts from voluntary to mandatory, it’s imperative that energy-intensive industries like mining and minerals implement robust digital sustainability reporting solutions.
Not only does MI Sustainability address today’s requirements, but it can adapt to future compliance regulations, meet evolving global legislative frameworks, and help set and achieve decarbonisation targets.
MI Sustainability provides a roadmap from ticking sustainability compliance boxes right through to advanced environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities.
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MI Sustainability Standard supports organisations with ESG reporting across major voluntary and mandatory global frameworks and disclosure regulations. It delivers centralised records that capture in-depth ESG data and supports compliance with evolving corporate sustainability reporting requirements. Ideal for:
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On top of centralised data, MI Sustainability Advanced adds automated data capture and data quality reporting. It includes data cleansing, organisation and validation tools (to assess data health and integrity), and advanced visualisation tools to deliver dynamic, accurate and auditable sustainability reports. Ideal for:
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Beyond data automation, MI Sustainability Expert offers finance-grade sustainability reporting and automated validation of ESG data against mining and mineral operations data using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s. It includes intelligent data accrual mechanisms to complete data gaps, built-in alerts and monitoring, custom process optimisation and product carbon footprinting (PCF). MI Sustainability Expert facilitates collaboration with technical teams and alignment of enterprise goals. Ideal for:
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Building on these capabilities, MI Sustainability Enterprise delivers the granular analysis needed to plan, execute and evaluate your decarbonisation roadmap. Running a steady-state simulation of your asset, it uses validated finance-grade production data to enable complex forecasting, transition planning and scenario analysis. You can adjust inputs and compare final production, emissions and consumption with advanced visualisation tools. It also enables your technical teams to collaborate with all stakeholders. Ideal for:
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MI Sustainability Standard supports organisations with ESG reporting across major voluntary and mandatory global frameworks and disclosure regulations. It delivers centralised records that capture in-depth ESG data and supports compliance with evolving corporate sustainability reporting requirements. Ideal for:
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On top of centralised data, MI Sustainability Advanced adds automated data capture and data quality reporting. It includes data cleansing, organisation and validation tools (to assess data health and integrity), and advanced visualisation tools to deliver dynamic, accurate and auditable sustainability reports. Ideal for:
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Beyond data automation, ST Expert offers finance-grade sustainability reporting and automated validation of ESG data against mining and mineral operations data using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s. It includes intelligent data accrual mechanisms to complete data gaps, built-in alerts and monitoring, custom process optimisation and product carbon footprinting (PCF). MI Sustainability Expert facilitates collaboration with technical teams and alignment of enterprise goals. Ideal for:
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Building on these capabilities, MI Sustainability Enterprise delivers the granular analysis needed to plan, execute and evaluate your decarbonisation roadmap. Running a steady-state simulation of your asset, it uses validated finance-grade production data to enable complex forecasting, transition planning and scenario analysis. You can adjust inputs and compare final production, emissions and consumption with advanced visualisation tools. It also enables your technical teams to collaborate with all stakeholders. Ideal for:
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Features
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MI Sustainability Expert |
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| Delivered as a secure cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) platform | ||||
Sustainability reporting consulting (optional)
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| MI Sustainability software licence (including enhancements and updates) | ||||
Selection of software modules
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| Manual and bulk data capture | ||||
| Automated data integration / centralisation | ||||
| Automated data organisation and validation | ||||
| Automated reporting on sustainability indicators as per legislative frameworks | ||||
| Solutions fully configured to the specific processes and chemistry of your plant | ||||
| Automated data validation using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s | ||||
| Automated data gap calculation and analysis | ||||
| Built-in alerts and monitoring | ||||
| Set multiple custom reporting boundaries – e.g. financial, operational control, product-based | ||||
| Adjust reporting to evolving frameworks | ||||
| Product carbon footprinting (PCF) | ||||
| Audit trail to source data | ||||
| Extract data in digital machine-readable format for regulatory submissions | ||||
| Transition planning for decarbonisation targets | ||||
| Scenario analysis for varying decarbonisation initiatives, climate resilience assessments, and forecasting and budgeting | ||||
| Ongoing training and support (optional) |
Unlock best practice sustainability reporting with an MI Sustainability Software-as-a-Service licencing plan. Get all the customisation, security, innovation and insight with the cloud’s scalability, enterprise-wide transparency and flexibility.
Monthly payments avoid the need for up-front capital expenditure and provide a clear line of sight regarding your ongoing expenses.
As a cloud-based platform, updates are made quickly and easily, so you continually benefit from the latest innovations and security.
Robust, intelligent and continually updated cloud security tools to improve your ability to detect and respond to threats.
The platform can be scaled easily across multiple sites, with seamless access to insights from any location or device.
MI Sustainability Expert and Enterprise packages are customised to your plant’s specific processes and chemistry and updated as needed.
Periodic payments avoid the need for up-front capital expenditure and provide a clear line of sight regarding your ongoing expenses. As a cloud-based platform, updates are made quickly and easily, so you continually benefit from the latest innovations. The platform can be scaled easily across multiple sites, with seamless access to insights from any location or device.
Yes, MI Sustainability’s robust, intelligent and continually updated cloud security tools maximise your ability to detect and respond to threats.
The best option will depend on a range of factors, including your stage of sustainability reporting maturity, the number of sites, the complexity of your processes, the granular detail required to meet sustainability compliance frameworks and more. Contact our team to discuss the options and help you choose the package most suitable for your operation.
The level of data capture – whether manual imports or complete automation – is adaptable to suit your needs and the package you select. The MI Sustainability Advanced package can automate the integration of disparate data sources across the asset, including historians, laboratory information management systems, control systems, environmental systems and enterprise resource systems. With the Expert and Enterprise packages, all your data can be centralised, validated against a mass and energy balance and organised using machine learning.
MI Sustainability can capture and report on data directly related to the operational asset it has been implemented in – including Scope 3 transportation emissions and Scope 3 production emissions. It can also connect to external third-party databases such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and country electricity factors from the International Energy Agency (IEA) to use their emissions factors when calculating sustainability indicators.
MI Sustainability Advanced, Expert and Enterprise packages incorporate increasingly sophisticated tools to help identify missing or overlapping data and fill in data gaps, including data integrity analysis, data health analysis, and automated alerts for missing or unusual data. MI Sustainability can calculate the consumption data in the simulation (mass and energy balance) and compare and analyse this to the actual meter readings and consumption use printed on invoices. Data is tagged according to boundaries, emissions categories and other data points. Each validated data stream is assigned a scope, boundary, category and data type to derive the most accurate activity data throughout the production process. Boundaries may vary between corporate offices and mining and mineral production sites.
The first step is to determine what data is being collected, available and missing, as well as what digital systems and instrumentation are needed to measure activity data, consumption, movements in inventory and emissions, and other sustainability metrics across the entire value chain. MI Sustainability Standard and Advanced includes standard validation as it is validated according to your existing data and not against simulated data. MI Sustainability Expert and Enterprise packages include advanced validation, as it is validated again a second set of data that is generated by the simulation.
While MI Sustainability Standard can meet compliance needs by centralising and reporting ESG data, more advanced packages offer finance-grade sustainability reporting using dynamic simulation to perform an asset-wide mass and energy balance to reconcile your delivery, consumption, inventory and production activity data. Using source data as inputs, the simulated data contextualises your measured activity data for completeness and accuracy. This means your verified sustainability indicators are fully traceable, immutable and unalterable, surpassing rigorous audit tests for complete assurance. Reports can also be delivered in digital machine-readable formats.
MI Sustainability is designed to support all major global reporting frameworks including the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – including the merged Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), NGER in Australia and more.
The MI Sustainability Standard and Advanced packages offer data analysis and visualisation from the data that has been collected and centralised. The MI Sustainability Expert and Enterprise packages offer advanced reporting and analysis visualisations so you can slice and dice the data according to any internal or external sustainability requirements needed. This could be by country, site, site scope, reporting category (such as fuels, reagents, waste, energy and water), and by individual product.
The automated data capture features on the higher packages integrate data seamlessly with existing systems. It’s always available in near real-time and can be compared across rolling periods.
Yes. Once the software is implemented and data sources set up, you can run near real-time advanced analytics with the push of a button and produce the granular auditable reports needed to satisfy evolving global compliance frameworks.
This depends on the complexity of your processes and reporting requirements and how much support your team needs. For the simpler reporting offered by the MI Sustainability Standard and Advanced packages, you can be up and running with sustainability reporting within a short timeframe. The more sophisticated and configurable MI Sustainability Expert and Enterprise packages typically take 2-3 months to fully implement, depending on your consulting, training and data requirements.
Our team’s level of involvement is entirely up to you, depending on your internal resources and expertise. We can offer training on the MI Sustainability Standard package or support you with in-depth consulting through more complex and customised implementations for the higher-level packages.
As much or as little as you need. Training and support are optional across all packages and delivered on a pay-as-you-go basis to meet your internal requirements. With all packages, MI Sustainability is supported by a comprehensive online learning management system with step-by-step on-demand courses to demonstrate every stage in the journey.
From sustainability consulting and operational audits to compliance readiness assessments, we can support you with integrating asset-wide sustainability indicator data, emissions reduction, automation consulting and ongoing process optimisation. Metallurgical Systems is your end-to-end digital sustainability partner. Learn more about our metallurgical consulting and support services.
Yes, MI Sustainability is carbon accounting software. Carbon accounting involves quantifying and tracking the greenhouse gas emissions produced directly or indirectly by an organisation. Another crucial aspect of sustainability reporting is that it provides a view of a company’s environmental impact, particularly its contribution to climate change. MI Sustainability can help organisations measure and report these emissions and identify opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint, set emission reduction targets and demonstrate their commitment to mitigating climate change.
Yes, MI Sustainability is emissions accounting software. Emissions accounting quantifies all emissions produced by an organisation, encompassing not only greenhouse gases but also pollutants and other harmful substances released into the environment. MI Sustainability helps collect this data and allows companies to identify areas for improvement, implement strategies to reduce emissions and transparently communicate their environmental impact to stakeholders as part of their sustainability initiatives.
Yes, MI Sustainability is an ESG reporting software platform. ESG reporting covers the disclosure of an organisation’s environmental footprint, and social and governance (ESG) performance to stakeholders. This critical component of sustainability reporting takes in a broader range of economic, environmental and social impacts. With the help of MI Sustainability, organisations can deliver transparent and standardised information on how a company manages its impact on the planet, society and its governance structures, allowing investors, suppliers, staff and customers to assess its sustainability practices and make informed decisions.
