Frequently asked questions
What is Aware Sustainability?
Aware Sustainability is a sustainability reporting platform for Singapore SMEs that tracks carbon emissions, runs a materiality assessment, and drafts an ISSB-structured sustainability report.
It's built for companies without a dedicated ESG team: enter activity data manually or photograph a utility bill for AI-assisted extraction, gather input from stakeholders on which topics matter most, and compile everything into a report structured around IFRS S1/S2's four pillars — Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics & Targets.
Do Singapore SMEs need to file a sustainability report?
No. SMEs are not currently within Singapore's mandatory ACRA sustainability filing scope.
Aware Sustainability is built to support voluntary disclosure — bank financing applications, investor requests, and supply-chain ESG questionnaires from larger customers — not to file with a regulator. Every report generated in the app carries this caveat visibly.
What reporting framework does the report follow?
The report is structured around IFRS S1/S2's four pillars: Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics & Targets.
The materiality assessment also references GRI and SASB topic mappings by industry, and greenhouse gas figures are calculated per the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard (Scope 1 and 2 required, partial Scope 3 -- waste, water, travel, and purchased goods & services -- where available).
Can I just photograph a utility bill instead of typing in numbers?
Yes. Upload a photo of an electricity bill, fuel receipt, or similar document, and AI-assisted extraction reads the figure for you to confirm before it's saved.
You can also submit bill photos over WhatsApp once your company links a number — reply YES to confirm the extracted figure, or NO to discard it, and it's added to your evidence vault automatically.
What if I already have emissions data from previous reporting periods?
You can bring in previous records manually through the migration page rather than re-entering everything from scratch in the calculator.
This is a lean, manual-entry flow for now — AI auto-extraction for migrated historical reports isn't built yet, so figures are entered directly against the periods they cover.
Is my company's data kept separate from other companies using the platform?
Yes. Every company's data — emissions entries, documents, reports, and team members — is scoped to that company alone and is only visible to logged-in members of that company.
Team members are invited individually and assigned a role (admin, editor, or viewer) that controls what they can see and change.