Ferramenta de extração e visualização de indicadores a partir de relatórios de sustentabilidade

Abstract

Due to increased concern about environmental, social, and economic balance, society, inves- tors, and regulatory bodies have been demanding more transparency and good practices in the socio-environmental context of companies. This scenario has led companies to adopt the practice of producing sustainability reports, prepared based on standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), with the purpose of boosting transparency and disclosing actions and indicators in the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) areas. In this work, a tool was proposed and developed for extracting and visualizing sustainability indicators from reports that follow the GRI guidelines, using Python libraries and the CRISP-DM methodology to structure the process, in order to facilitate the visualization and comparison of indicator data from companies in the same sector. During testing, it was found that the automatic extraction presented limitations, mainly due to the lack of contextualization of the data. This resulted in the adoption of manual extraction to ensure the reliability of the information. The manual extraction of indicators in banking sector reports revealed challenges such as a variety of formats, different units of measurement, temporal inconsistency, and the use of text instead of tables. As a result, several interactive dashboards were developed in Power BI, distributed across eight pages and organized in an integrated way in a single report to facilitate navigation and comparative analysis of the indicators. This report presents the selected indicators in intuitive graphical and visual representations, making it easier to compare companies in the banking sector. In conclusion, although the proposal generated significant results, it was possible to identify that the lack of standardization in sustainability reports continues to be an obstacle to more effective comparative analyses, reinforcing the importance of greater methodological alignment between companies.