Eden is an environmental compliance platform for industry and for the agencies that regulate it. It replaces paper logbooks, scattered spreadsheets and email-based reporting with a single system where companies enter their monitoring data, officers review submissions and conduct audits, and regulators compile the reports they need.

Eden is not written for any one country’s law. Each national environmental agency configures its own: the statutes it enforces, the levels it permits, the questions its officers score on site, the month its reporting year begins, and the currency its penalties are quoted in. Those rules govern that country’s companies and nobody else’s, and no agency can read or change another’s. The first agency to run on Eden was the Environmental Protection Agency in Ghana, and it remains the reference deployment; where this manual names a country, it is as an example.

What Eden Does

• Monthly data capture — Companies enter water quality, air emissions, noise, waste, and operational metrics in a spreadsheet-style pivot grid
• EPA submissions — Period-based reports (monthly / quarterly / termly / annual) auto-compile from monthly entries
• Annual reports — Full Form AER-1 generation including Sections A through F
• Audits — Structured environmental audits with configurable categories, scoring, and multi-auditor support
• Performance evaluation — Gold / Green / Blue / Orange / Red rating, against the limits your own regulator has configured
• Comprehensive reports — System-wide and per-company reports with print-ready PDF output

Who Uses Eden

• Company — Industries holding EPA permits enter their compliance data and submit reports
• EPA Staff — Officers reviewing submissions and conducting audits
• EPA Admin — Administrators running one country’s agency: its companies, its officers and its own rules

Receiving Your Account

Companies request access via the Request Account page. After payment proof is uploaded and an Admin approves the request, login credentials are emailed to the contact address provided.

EPA Staff and Sector Heads receive accounts directly from their own EPA Admin via the User Management interface, and join that administrator’s agency automatically, so they see their own country and no other. Staff access itself is granted by Wisdsol.

Logging In

Navigating Eden

Every page has three areas:

• Sidebar (left) — Main navigation grouped by function
• Top bar — Your username, role badge, and a sign-out shortcut
• Main area — The current page content

Eden can be installed on your phone, tablet or computer like an ordinary app. It opens in its own window from your home screen or desktop, starts faster, and keeps itself up to date. No app store is involved and nothing extra is charged.

Android phones and tablets

iPhone and iPad

Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook

In Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar, or choose Install app from your user menu (top-right) inside Eden. On a Mac using Safari, choose File → Add to Dock.

Eden has two sidebars, because it is really two things: the monitoring system a company files its returns through, and the sustainability suite it manages everything else in. The Sustainability Suite link moves between them.

The monitoring sidebar

Grouped into Workspace, Monitoring & data, Reporting and Organisation. Which sections you see depends on your role.

The suite sidebar

The suite holds every module your organisation has switched on — from Places & indicators and compliance to biodiversity, water, projects and the assistant; see Choosing Your Modules. The switcher at the top moves between them, and every module follows the same three-part shape:

• The module’s own pages — its overview and working screens, ordered from what you open daily to what you consult occasionally.
• Working groups — the records behind those pages, grouped by subject: Safety, Chemicals, Health, Contractors, and so on.
• Reference — always last. Lookup tables set up once and rarely touched.

Every screen appears in one place only. Where a page and a records table cover the same thing — incidents, devices, risks — the sidebar lists the page, because it filters and summarises; its header carries a link to the full table for adding and editing.

Working with the sidebar

• Fold a section by clicking its heading; Eden remembers your choice on this device.
• The section containing the page you are on always stays open. If it is folded, an amber dot marks it.
• Collapse the whole sidebar to icons with the Collapse button, or press [.
• On phones and small tablets the sidebar folds away; a bar along the bottom of the screen holds Home, Modules, Go to and Menu, which slides the sidebar in.

Go to: any screen by name

To reach a screen in another module, press Go to… on the top bar, or press / anywhere (Ctrl K also works), and type part of its name — permits, water, surveys. It searches every module your organisation has switched on, plus your own menu, and lists the screens you opened recently. On a record’s page, the link above its title goes one level up.

Eden holds permits, monitoring results, audit findings and payment records. Everything in this chapter is on one page: your avatar → Security & sign-in.

Your first password

New accounts receive an email with a link to choose their own password. The link works once and for three days; after that, use Forgot your password? on the sign-in page. If an administrator gave you a first password, Eden asks you to choose your own before anything else. A password must be at least 12 characters and cannot be a common password, numbers only, or too like your username.

Wrong passwords

After the third wrong password, sign-in to that account is held for 15 minutes — even the right password is refused. Wait, or reset your password: a new password lifts the hold at once. Three wrong two-factor codes hold the account the same way.

Two-factor sign-in

After your password, Eden asks for a 6-digit code from an authenticator app on your phone. Required for Eden's own administrators and regulator administrators; recommended for everyone.

Lost your phone and your codes? Ask your platform administrator to reset your two-factor sign-in.

How long you stay signed in

A sign-in ends after 30 minutes without activity and at most 12 hours after you signed in. Sign out everywhere else on the security page signs out every other device at once.

Each Eden account has a single role that determines which pages and actions are available.

Company Company

Used by industrial facility staff. Can:

• Set up and manage their company profile
• Create monitoring years
• Enter monthly monitoring data and operations / waste data
• Submit reports to EPA (monthly, quarterly, termly, annual)
• Build the Annual Environmental Report (Form AER-1)
• View their own dashboards and reports

Companies cannot see other companies' data or any permissible parameter limits.

EPA Staff EPA Staff

EPA officers assigned to specific companies. Can:

• Review submissions from assigned companies
• Approve, reject, or request revisions
• Conduct on-site audits using the structured audit tool
• View company reports and historical data for their assigned facilities

Sector Head Sector Head

Senior officers overseeing all companies in a specific industry sector. Same capabilities as EPA Staff plus:

• Sector-wide dashboards and analytics
• Cross-company comparisons within the sector
• Sector-specific report generation

EPA Admin EPA Admin

Runs one country’s agency, with full read/write access inside it and none outside it. Can:

• Manage the companies operating in their own country, their own officers, and EPA assignments
• Configure their own country’s laws, limit values and reporting year
• Set up their own audit sections, questions, answers and point values
• Generate reports and evaluations for their own jurisdiction
• Bulk-upload their own audit setup

An Agency Administrator does not administer the platform: the shared reference data, the agencies themselves and another country’s anything are all out of reach.

Each subscriber works in a private workspace. Your monitoring data, submissions, reports and suite records are visible only to:

• You, the account owner;
• Your team members — colleagues you invite, with the permissions of the role you assign them (see Team Members in the sidebar);
• Your appointed consultant, if you work with an environmental firm through Eden;
• EPA regulators in the course of their oversight — they review your submissions and compliance records.

No other subscriber can see your data, even by guessing a web address. Every page checks who you are before showing a record.

Inviting your team

Your workspace page

Open My workspace from the user menu. It lists the companies in your workspace with their plans and user seats, your team size, and who can see your data. Account owners can set a display name, logo and contact email.

• Company groups — one workspace can hold a parent and its subsidiaries. The group owner sees every company; each subsidiary keeps its own login and subscription. Eden support sets groups up.
• More than one workspace — switch between them on the workspace page.

Language & region

Choose Language & region in the user menu to set the language Eden speaks to you in and the time zone for dates and times. The choice follows your account to any device.

Creating Your Monitoring Year

Eden organises all data by monitoring year. Before entering any data, create a year for the calendar year you're reporting on.

Customise how your company appears on every PDF report Eden generates.

Uploading Your Logo

1. Sidebar → Branding.
2. Under Company Logo, click Choose File and select your logo image.
3. Click Save Logo.

Square format (400×400 px) works best. PNG with transparent background looks cleanest. The logo appears in:

• Cover pages of all PDF reports
• Running headers (top of every report page)
• Environmental Performance Certificates

Cover Image

Upload a wide hero image (16:9, recommended 1600×900 px) of your facility. This image becomes the front-page background on comprehensive reports. Pick something representative — a photo of your plant, operations area, or facility from the outside.

Removing Images

Click the small Remove button below any uploaded image to delete it. Reports will fall back to a default Eden-branded cover.

Manage your subscription plan and payments via Mobile Money.

Viewing Your Subscription

Sidebar → My Subscription. The hero panel shows your current plan, status, and days remaining.

Choosing or Upgrading a Plan

Pending & History

While a request is awaiting admin review, you cannot submit another. The bottom of the page shows your last 10 subscription requests with status pills, amounts, transaction references, and review notes.

The Data Entry page is a pivot grid: parameters as rows, all 12 months as columns. You can enter any combination of values across any subset of months.

The Pivot Grid Workflow

Adding a Custom Parameter

If a parameter you need isn't in the system list, click + Add custom parameter at the top of the pivot grid. Enter:

• Name — e.g. Lead Concentration
• Unit — e.g. mg/L
• Type — Toxic / Non Toxic
• Min / Max limits — optional permissible range

The new parameter is saved permanently and immediately appears as a row in the grid.

Eden organises monitoring locations into three categories, each with a distinct regulatory purpose:

Why it matters: The same parameter can have different readings at different points (pH at Outfall A vs Outfall B in the same month). Eden stores them as separate readings, enabling proper multi-point monitoring required by most permits.

Defining a Sampling Point

1. Open Sampling Points from the sidebar.
2. Enter a clear name (e.g. "Outfall A", "Stack 1", "Boundary North").
3. Pick the category — make sure permit-required points are marked Compliance.
4. Optionally add description and GPS coordinates for traceability.
5. Click Add Sampling Point.

You can also add points on the fly from the data entry page using the Quick Add button.

Editing/Deleting: If a sampling point has measurements attached, deleting it disables it instead — preserving data integrity. Disabled points won't appear in pickers but historical data remains.

The Operations & Waste page collects monthly quantified data for AER-1 Sections C, D, and E.

What's Captured

Section C — Operations & Production

• Production output volumes
• Operating days and plant utilisation
• Raw materials, fuel, and process water used

Section D — Waste Generation & Management

• Solid waste — municipal, industrial, construction
• Hazardous waste — chemical, used oil, medical, e-waste
• Waste recycled / recovered
• Waste disposed — landfill, incineration, composting, wastewater discharge

Section E — Environmental Incidents & Compliance

• Incidents — spills, fires, oil volume, area affected
• Complaints — community, odour, noise, dust
• Violations — permit violations, fines, enforcement notices
• Corrective actions — actions completed, remediation cost, days to remediate

Each sub-section has a pivot grid with months as columns, just like main data entry. Values save automatically as you type. The data flows directly into the Annual Environmental Report.

EPA Submissions package your monitoring data into formal reports for specific reporting periods.

Reporting Periods

• Monthly — one specific month
• Quarterly — Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 (3 months)
• Termly — First / Second / Third term (4 months)
• Annual — all 12 months

Creating a Submission

Submission Statuses

• Draft — not yet submitted, you can still edit
• Submitted — sent to EPA, awaiting review
• Under Review — an EPA officer is examining it
• Accepted — approved with EPA reference number
• Rejected — returned with reason; create a new submission with corrections

Printing a Submission

From the submission detail page, click Print. A landscape A4 layout opens with the print toolbar at the top — click Print / Save PDF or use Ctrl+P.

What Gets Locked

When you submit a Monthly, Quarterly, Half-yearly, Termly, or Annual report, all monitoring data covering those months becomes read-only for you. Specifically: any submission with status Submitted, Under Review, or Accepted locks the underlying months.

What This Looks Like

• The data entry page shows an amber lock banner at the top listing locked months.
• Locked month chips display a 🔒 icon and cannot be selected.
• Server-side enforcement: any attempt to save a value for a locked month is rejected with a clear error.
• The submission detail page shows a "Data Locked" notice.

Who Can Edit Locked Data

Only EPA staff and admins can modify locked data, and only after review with proper justification/proof. If you discover a genuine error after submission, contact EPA to request a correction.

Rejected Submissions

If EPA rejects a submission, the underlying data is automatically unlocked so you can correct and resubmit. Read the reviewer's notes carefully before editing.

The Annual Environmental Report is the formal year-end return, submitted to your national regulator. Eden builds it from your monthly data plus a few narrative fields. The AER-1 layout Eden ships with is Ghana’s; other countries name and lay out their return differently, and your regulator will tell you which form it expects.

The Six Sections

Building the Report

Every PDF report Eden generates now starts with a professional cover page featuring:

• Company logo and cover image (uploaded by company in Branding)
• Report title, year, and submission period (e.g. "Q2 2025")
• Permit number, file number, sector, undertaking type
• Issuance metadata and confidentiality notice

Subsequent pages have a running header (company logo + name + report type, with year/quarter on the right) and a footer (Eden attribution, generation date, page X of Y).

This applies to:

• Comprehensive Environmental Reports
• Company Full Reports
• Evaluation Reports
• EPA Submission printouts (monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, termly, annual)

The Environmental Performance Certificate retains its purpose-built single-page design (with the company logo embedded in the spine).

The Company Dashboard is your daily overview — what's been entered, what's pending, and how compliance looks.

Welcome Bar

Top of every dashboard. Greets you by name, shows your current company and undertaking type, and offers quick links to Data Entry and Reports.

Stat Cards

• Total entries — how many MonitoringData records exist for the year
• Compliance rate — % of values within permissible limits (visible only to EPA, not companies)
• Submissions — count of EPA submissions made
• Reports — count of AER-1 reports drafted

Compliance Ring

A circular progress ring showing overall compliance %. Tooltip explains the calculation. Companies see their data completeness; EPA sees compliance vs limits.

Recent Activity

Latest data entries, submissions, and audits in a single timeline.

Every company on Eden carries one colour for each reporting year. It is the single figure a regulator quotes, a bank asks for and a buyer checks, and it appears on the evaluation register, on the certificate and at the top of every report.

Best to worst. Gold, green and blue are compliant. Orange and red are not.

What each band means

The colour is the worst of eight, not an average

Eden grades eight indicators separately, each getting its own colour, and the company takes the lowest of the eight.

One toxic exceedance grades red

The rule works from the readings, not from an officer's opinion, and it overrides everything else. Which parameters count as toxic is set by the regulator on the parameter record; heavy metals, cyanide and arsenic typically do, while dust, BOD and noise are ordinary banded parameters.

The same colour everywhere

The band on the certificate, on the evaluation register, on the full report and on the comprehensive report is one and the same figure. If they ever disagree, that is a fault worth reporting — they are all reading the same evaluation.

The supporting breakdown

Beneath the band, each document shows three supporting figures, each on its own 0–100 scale: your compliance rate (readings within their permitted limits), your data completeness (entries filed against entries due so far this year) and your audit result. Together they produce the weighted score shown beside the band.

They are supporting analysis, not the rating — the rating is the band, and the band is the worst of the eight indicators. Improving a supporting figure without lifting the lowest indicator moves the score and not the colour. Where a company has not been audited at all, the audit part is set aside rather than counted as zero.

How to move up a band

Because the band is the floor, there is only ever one thing to fix: the lowest indicator. Open the evaluation report and read down the eight — the one matching the overall colour is the one holding the company there. Improving anything else changes the score and not the band.

1. Find the indicator at the company's colour — on the evaluation report, or in the Holding the rating list on the certificate.
2. Check whether it is data or audit — a monitoring indicator moves when the readings or the filing record move; an audit indicator moves only at the next audit.
3. Deal with any toxic exceedance first — while one stands, no other improvement can lift the company above red.
4. File the outstanding returns — the monitoring and reporting rate is the indicator companies most often overlook, and the easiest to fix.

Eden issues one document per company per year, and which document it is follows the colour grade. Open it from Companies → Certificate, or from the certificates list, which shows every company's band for the year before you open anything.

What is on the document

• The band, in its colour, as the border, the badge and the verdict panel.
• The issuing regulator — the agency for the company's own country, named in the signature block and the footer.
• A document number carrying the band, so the paper cannot be separated from the rating it was issued against: ENV-CERT-0014-2026-GOLD, or ENV-REC-0004-2026-RED for a withheld one.
• Achievements on an award; the indicators holding the rating down on any document where they exist.
• The supporting breakdown — compliance, completeness and audit.

When to issue it

Issue after the year's submissions have been accepted, not before. A document generated mid-year reflects a partial record — the completeness figure is calculated against the months elapsed, so it will read plausibly and still describe an unfinished year. The document carries the date it was produced and is valid for twelve months from issue.

Open Sustainability Suite from the sidebar. The suite extends Eden beyond EPA compliance, using the same data you already record. Switch between its areas with the selector at the top of the suite sidebar:

Start with your facilities

Under Shared setup → Facilities, add each site and choose its country. Every limit, obligation and sensor reading is matched to the right rules through the facility.

The Action Board

Anything that needs doing — a limit exceedance, an incident investigation, an overdue obligation, a risk treatment, an early warning — becomes an action on one shared Action Board. Filter by status or source, assign an owner and due date, and mark actions done when complete.

Eden records where environmental work happens and what was measured there in one shared way, so the same reading can serve a permit, a report to a donor and a research study without being typed three times. It is the foundation the wider Eden modules (biodiversity, climate, water and others) build on.

Open Sustainability Suite and choose Places & indicators from the switcher at the top of the sidebar. Its pages are:

Every value carries its provenance

A number is only as useful as the answers to the questions somebody relying on it will ask. Eden keeps seven answers with every observation and shows them as a row of links at the top of the observation, ticked when present and marked with a dash when missing:

1. Source — where it came from: a survey team, a station, a laboratory, a published dataset.
2. Date — when it was observed.
3. Location — the place, or an exact GPS position.
4. Method — how it was measured, ideally a named standard.
5. Evidence — a certificate, photo or field sheet that backs it up.
6. Validator — somebody other than the person who recorded it, who has checked it.
7. Confidence — how sure that person is: low, medium or high.

Who sees what

Every place, observation, method and data source belongs to one organisation — your company's workspace, or for regulators, your agency — and you choose who else may see it:

The country a record belongs to is taken from your organisation's country, so a share always reaches the right regulator. A regulator who can see a company's record can read it but never change it, and the same holds the other way round.

A place is anywhere you measure, protect, restore or regulate. Open Places and click Add a place.

About the place

• Name and your reference — a station ID, permit number or plot code of your own.
• What it is — the kind of place (see the table below). It decides the colour on the map.
• Sits inside — another place it belongs to: a sampling point inside a facility, a plot inside a forest.
• Company and facility — link it to the company and facility the rest of Eden already knows. If you work for one company only, it is chosen for you.
• Boundary comes from — the data source the outline was taken from, such as a government protected-areas dataset.
• Who may see it — see Places, Indicators & Evidence.

Where it is: three ways

1. Draw it on the map. Use the tools on the left of the map: a marker for a station, a line for a river reach or transect, a polygon or rectangle for an area. Drawn shapes can be edited or deleted with the same tools, and Clear the shape removes them all.
2. Type a latitude and longitude for a single point, in decimal degrees — for example 5.6037 and -0.1870. Latitude runs north–south (−90 to 90), longitude east–west (−180 to 180).
3. Upload a boundary you already have: GeoJSON, KML, or a shapefile zipped together with its .shp, .shx, .dbf and .prj files, up to 8 MB. Boundaries in another coordinate system, such as UTM, are converted automatically. An upload replaces anything drawn.

Eden works out the area in hectares and, for lines, the length in kilometres from the shape itself. Areas are calculated on the true shape of the Earth, so they match a survey rather than a flat map.

The place page

Each place shows its map, its details, the observations recorded there, and two lists of what it contains: places recorded as inside it (through Sits inside) and places lying within its boundary. The second list is worked out from the shapes themselves, so a monitoring station inside a wetland appears there even if nobody linked them.

Retiring a place

A place with observations recorded against it cannot be deleted, because those values would lose their location. Edit it and untick In use instead: it leaves your lists and forms, and everything recorded there is kept.

An observation is one measured value: a PM2.5 reading, a rainfall total, a count of birds, a seedling survival rate. Click Record an observation, or Record here on a place page to have the place filled in.

What, where and when

• What was measured — an indicator from the library. Its unit is fixed by the indicator, and copied onto the value when it is recorded, so changing the indicator later never re-labels old values.
• Value — a number. A count must be a whole number of zero or more, and a percentage must be between 0 and 100. Indicators with a list of allowed answers use Answer instead.
• Where — the place. For an exact position inside it, add a GPS latitude and longitude, or press Use this device's position on a phone in the field. Eden shows how accurate the reading is.
• When — the date and time observed. For a total or an average over a period, also give the date the period ends. A time in the future is refused.
• Method and source — how it was measured and where it came from. If the indicator has a usual method, it is filled in for you.

Automatic checks

Every value is checked as it is saved. Nothing is refused by these checks — a real flood or heatwave produces real extremes, and they must be recordable — but a value that trips one is marked Flagged for review, with the reason shown on the observation:

• it is outside the indicator's plausible range — a PM2.5 of 31,000 µg/m³ is a typing slip, not a finding;
• it has no location, so it cannot be mapped or compared with neighbouring sites;
• its GPS position lies outside the place it was recorded against;
• it is the same value as the last several readings at that place, which often means a row copied from the one above.

Attaching evidence

After saving, attach what backs the value up on the observation page: a laboratory certificate, a photo, a field sheet, or a link. Files up to 15 MB are accepted in these formats: PDF, JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, CSV, XLSX, XLS, DOCX, TXT, JSON, GeoJSON, KML, ZIP and MP4.

Eden records a fingerprint of each file. While the file is the one that was attached, it shows Unchanged; if it is ever replaced, it shows File changed since attached. Evidence can be downloaded only by people allowed to see the observation.

Validating a value

Under Check this value, somebody in the organisation that owns the value chooses one of:

Editing a value that has been validated sends it back to be checked again — the validation was of the old value, not the new one. It returns as Not yet checked, or as Flagged for review if the automatic checks find something in the new value. Rejected values stay on record but never appear on the map.

The History at the bottom of each observation lists every step — recorded, flagged by the automatic checks, validated, rejected, edited — with who did it and when. It cannot be edited.

Values waiting for a check are listed on the Overview under Waiting to be checked.

The Indicator library holds the definitions everybody measures against, so two teams recording "PM2.5" record the same thing in the same unit. It has three tabs: Indicators, Methods and Data sources.

The shared Eden library

Entries marked Eden library are maintained by Wisdsol and available to every organisation: 38 indicators covering air, water, soil, noise, climate, biodiversity, forests, coasts, waste and energy, and 17 standard methods such as ISO 7027-1 for turbidity and EN 12341 for particulate matter. They cannot be edited by an organisation.

An indicator, field by field

• Code — a short, stable key such as pm25 or tree-survival. Your codes must be unique within your organisation.
• Domain, unit and value type — a measured number, a count, a percentage, a category or yes/no. A category indicator needs its list of allowed answers.
• Direction — whether lower or higher is better, a range to stay within, or neither. It decides how the map colours values.
• Definition — exactly what is measured, so two teams measure the same thing.
• Plausible range — what an instrument can read and nature can produce. Values outside it are flagged for review, not refused.
• Reports to — the frameworks the indicator feeds, one per line, written as FRAMEWORK: code, for example SDG: 6.3.2 or GRI: 303-4.

Adding your own

Click Add your own on any tab. What you add belongs to your organisation and is visible to whoever you choose, like any other record. Methods name a standard or protocol and how it is applied. Data sources record who operates or publishes the data, a link, the licence it may be used under, and how to cite it.

The Map page shows every place you are allowed to see, coloured by kind: protected areas and forests in greens, water bodies and wetlands in blues, monitoring stations in purple, hazard zones in red. Click a place for its name, kind and area, and a link to its page.

• Every kind of place narrows the map to one kind.
• The second list, which starts at No values — places only, lays the most recent value of the indicator you choose over the map, one dot per place.

Values are coloured from green to red following the indicator's own direction: where lower is better, red is high; where higher is better, red is low. Indicators with no direction are shown in a single colour, because a colour would imply a judgement nobody has made. Rejected values are never shown.

The map uses OpenStreetMap, so it needs an internet connection; the shapes and values themselves come from Eden.

Eden is one platform with many modules. The Modules page lists all of them, grouped by family — Eden Core, Compliance, Climate, Biodiversity, Research, Monitor, GIS, Projects, ESG, Finance and Intelligence — and shows which your organisation uses.

Switching a module on or off

Click Switch off or Switch on beside the module. Only an administrator can: the owner of a company's workspace or an organisation admin of a company in it, and for a regulator, the agency administrator. Everyone else sees the page read-only.

• A module switched off disappears from the menu for everyone in your organisation, and its pages send people to the Modules page with a note saying it is off.
• Nothing is deleted. Switching it back on brings everything back exactly as it was.
• The choice is your organisation's alone. It changes nothing for anybody else, including your regulator.

Every record is visible to only my organisation (the default), my organisation and the regulator of its country, or everyone on Eden. An administrator decides on the Modules page who may choose "everyone": nobody, only administrators (the default), or anyone who can edit the record. Whoever publishes ticks a confirmation each time, and every publication is recorded in the security log.

The 19 modules that start switched off — from biodiversity to the environmental assistant — all work the same way, so what you learn in one carries over to the rest. Once an administrator switches a module on (see Choosing Your Modules), it appears in the switcher at the top of the sidebar.

The screens every module has

Records filed under another

Some records only exist as part of another: a sighting belongs to a survey, a disbursement to a grant, a mitigation measure to an impact. Add them from the parent's page, with the + Add link beside the table. They always take the parent's owner and its Who may see it choice: share a survey with the regulator and its sightings go with it; make it private again and they follow. You can only file a record under a parent your organisation owns.

Who sees what

Exactly as for places and observations: Only my organisation, My organisation and the regulator of the country it's in, or Everyone on Eden. Every list, map, dropdown, export, dashboard number and answer from the assistant is cut to what you may see. A record you may not see does not exist as far as Eden is concerned: its address answers "not found".

A record that other records still depend on — a species with sightings, a waste stream with manifests — cannot be deleted; Eden says so and leaves it in place.

Biodiversity & ecosystems

Add a Survey (where, when, the method and the effort in person-hours), then the Sightings made during it: the species and how many individuals. Choose species from the Species list, which records each one's IUCN Red List status, any national protection, and whether it is invasive or endemic. A survey's page works out:

• Species recorded (richness) and individuals counted.
• Shannon H′ = −Σ pᵢ ln pᵢ, where pᵢ is each species' share of the individuals — higher means more species, more evenly represented.
• Simpson's 1−D — the chance that two individuals picked at random are of different species.
• Evenness (Pielou J′) = H′ ÷ ln(species).
• Threatened species (Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically endangered) and invasive species recorded, and individuals per person-hour.

With no individuals there is no index — Eden shows a dash rather than a misleading zero. Habitat condition records an assessment of a place: good, fair, poor or severely degraded, with an optional 0–100 score and the threats seen.

Land, soil & forests

Loss & degradation records deforestation, degradation, soil loss or conversion, with its cause. Draw the area on the map and Eden measures it in hectares the same way it measures places. A new record is Detected; from its page mark it Verified on the ground, a False alarm (with the reason), and later Action taken.

Restoration projects hold their Plantings and Survival checks. A survival check counts a sample of seedlings and how many are alive; the project's page shows the latest survival rate and the estimated number still alive — planted × the latest survival rate. It is an estimate, and labelled as one.

Marine & coastal

• Shoreline — each coastal segment is measured from a fixed benchmark seaward to the shoreline. From two measurements at least a year apart Eden draws a least-squares line through them all and reports the change in metres a year: eroding when the distance shrinks.
• Reefs & seagrass — live coral cover, the share of it bleached, and seagrass cover, each 0–100%.
• Blue carbon — area × your carbon density gives tonnes of carbon, and × 44/12 tonnes of CO₂. Eden supplies no default density: published values differ several-fold between sites, so you enter your own and its source.
• Fisheries — landings by site and species; with the effort in vessel-days, the catch per unit effort.

Natural capital & ecosystem services

Record the Natural assets you rely on — a forest, a wetland, an aquifer — and the Ecosystem services each provides, grouped as provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting. A service may carry a value a year, but only with the method used (market price, replacement cost, avoided damage, benefit transfer or a stated-preference survey). Values in different currencies are shown side by side and never added together. Dependencies & impacts screens what your activities depend on, or do to, nature, rated from very low to very high.

Climate indicators & research

A climate indicator names an indicator from your library (rainfall, maximum temperature…) and a place, and a baseline period such as 1991–2020. Eden works everything out from the observations already recorded there — no second copy of the data:

• the baseline: the average of the yearly values in the baseline years (each year's average, or its total for rainfall-type indicators);
• the latest year and its difference from the baseline;
• the trend per decade, a least-squares line through the yearly values. It needs readings in at least three years.

Rejected values are left out. A climate indicator shared more widely than private only uses readings shared at least as widely, so a public figure is never built from private data. Projections keep what downscaled climate projections say — the variable, the scenario (SSP1-2.6 to SSP5-8.5), the horizon, the central change and its range — and the source it came from. Eden does not run climate models.

Physical climate risk

Record each Hazard — flood, drought, extreme heat, sea-level rise and others — for today or a future scenario, with its level from 1 to 5. A Risk assessment scores a place against a hazard:

Risk = hazard × exposure × vulnerability, each 1–5, so from 1 to 125.

Adaptation planning

An Adaptation plan holds its Actions. Start an action from the Options library (mangrove restoration, early-warning systems, rainwater harvesting, cool roofs and others), link it to the risk it reduces, and give its cost and the losses it avoids in the same currency. Eden works out the benefit–cost ratio — above 1, an action pays for itself — ranks actions by it, and shows the plan's progress as the average of its actions, leaving out dropped ones.

Impact assessment (EIA / SEA)

An assessment moves through eight stages: Screening, Scoping, Baseline studies, Impact assessment, Review, Decision, Monitoring and compliance, and Closed. Press Move to the next stage on its page; Eden refuses, and says why, until the stage's work is on file:

Each impact is rated by magnitude × sensitivity of the receptor, each 1–4: 2 or less is negligible, 4 or less minor, 8 or less moderate, above 8 major. A decision can only be recorded at the Decision stage. Tick Strategic assessment (SEA) for a policy, plan or programme.

Waste & circular economy

A Manifest follows one consignment from dispatch to the facility that took it. When the facility's weight is recorded the manifest is Received; if it differs from the dispatched weight by more than 5% it is flagged, and it cannot be closed without saying why. Hazardous waste cannot be sent to a facility not recorded as accepting it, and a closed manifest can no longer be changed. The overview shows the share of waste kept out of disposal — reused, recycled, composted or burnt for energy — and facility licences expiring within 90 days.

Water resources

Record abstraction and discharge Licences with the volume each allows per day, month or year, and the water actually withdrawn or discharged over each period. Eden compares the volume with what the licence allows for the same number of days — over 100% is flagged — and refuses a discharge booked against an abstraction licence. Water stress divides a catchment's total demand by its renewable supply and bands it as WRI Aqueduct does: under 10% low, 10–20% low to medium, 20–40% medium to high, 40–80% high, 80% and over extremely high. Water quality readings are observations in Places & indicators.

Satellite & remote sensing

The Image catalogue lists the satellite and drone images you work from. A Detected change — forest loss, a burn scar, a flood extent, new mining — is drawn on the map, measured in hectares, and must be Confirmed or marked a False positive by somebody other than the person who drew it. Redrawing a confirmed change sends it back to be checked. Eden does not process imagery itself.

Early warning & alerts

An Alert rule says what to watch for:

• A reading crosses a threshold — checked the moment a reading is recorded or edited. Leave the place empty to watch every place.
• Readings stop arriving — no reading of an indicator at a place for a number of days.
• A permit or licence is about to expire — permits in Regulatory intelligence, water licences and waste facility licences.

The last two are checked once a day. A rule only ever sees your own organisation's readings — and, for a regulator, readings companies in its country have shared with the regulator. Each thing raises an alert once.

Under Who is told, add people by email, SMS or WhatsApp, each with the lowest severity they want (information, warning or danger). The alert carries the rule's advice. Every delivery is listed on the alert: Sent, Failed, or Not sent — channel not set up on this server when SMS and WhatsApp have not been connected; email is unaffected. From the alert's page, Acknowledge it and mark it Resolved.

Community & citizen reports Regulator

Members of the public report pollution, spills, dumping, fires, tree cutting, illegal mining, industrial accidents and other problems through Eden Report, the public app at /report/ — no account needed. It works in any phone browser and can be installed on the home screen like an app. In three short steps they choose their country and what is happening (ticking Someone is in danger if it is urgent), mark the place on the map or tap Use where I am, and describe it, with a photo if they have one. Only countries whose regulator has switched this module on are offered, and each report belongs to that regulator from the moment it arrives.

• The reporter gets a tracking code to follow it under Follow (/report/track/), which shows the status and your public reply — never your internal notes or the reporter's contact details. The codes sent from a phone are listed under My reports on that phone only; nothing on the server links a report to a phone.
• Your agency's contact email is told the moment a report arrives. When the reporter says someone is in danger, the subject starts with [URGENT], the report is flagged Urgent in the list (filter on it), and the module page counts urgent reports still open.
• No signal? The report — photo included — is kept on the phone and sent automatically when the connection returns.
• Photos must be JPEG, PNG or WebP and at most 5 MB. Eden re-saves them, which removes the location data a phone stores inside a photo.
• At most 5 reports an hour are accepted from one connection, and robots are turned away. The old addresses (/eden/report/) still work and lead to the app.

Work a report from its page: Start looking into it, then Confirmed or Could not be confirmed (with a note), Action taken, and Close.

The app also has Get help, for questions to the Eden team about the platform itself — those go to Wisdsol Tech's support, not to you, and are listed for platform staff in the administration area under Contact messages, with the contact page's messages.

Projects, MEL & results

A Project holds its logframe — Results at the impact, outcome, output and activity levels, each contributing to one above it — and each result its indicators with a baseline and a target. Add Measurements as they come in. Progress is how far the latest value has moved from the baseline towards the target, so it works for a reduction (cases down from 200 to 50) as well as an increase. The project's page also shows its milestones, budget lines and money spent, and funding opportunities that may fit it.

Climate & environmental finance

Keep the Funders you work with and their Opportunities: themes, the countries they are open to, amounts and deadline. Eden suggests opportunities for each project that is still open: a shared theme, the project's country (or a call open to all countries), and a deadline not yet passed. It is a suggestion, not an eligibility check. Follow Applications from idea to award, and record Grants and the Disbursements actually received — never more in total than the grant.

Carbon & nature markets

A Credit project — carbon, biodiversity, water or other nature units, under Verra, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, Article 6 or a national registry — holds:

• Monitoring periods — baseline emissions, project emissions and leakage. Net reductions less the buffer pool contribution, rounded down to whole units, is what the period can support.
• Issuances — only against a verified period, and never more than it supports. The vintage must fall within the period.
• Retirements & transfers — never more than the balance of that vintage. The check is made again at the moment of saving, so two people retiring the last credits at once cannot both succeed.

The project's page shows issued, retired and the balance, vintage by vintage.

Research portal

Record Research projects, their Datasets and Publications. Each dataset keeps its Versions: a data file of up to 50 MB (CSV, spreadsheets, JSON and GeoJSON, GeoPackage, KML, NetCDF, GeoTIFF, Parquet, PDF or a zip of them) fingerprinted with SHA-256 so anyone can confirm a copy is unaltered. A version keeps its file; a correction is a new version. A Review must be written by somebody other than the person who filed the dataset or the version.

Open data hub

Press Publish to the open data hub on a dataset's page. Eden publishes it only if your organisation has the Open data hub switched on, the dataset is shared with Everyone on Eden under an open licence, and it has at least one version. Published datasets appear in the public catalogue at /eden/data/ and in the read-only API at /eden/api/v1/datasets/, with their licence, citation and checksums. Withdraw from the hub takes one down; switching the module off takes them all down at once.

Without a key the API returns published datasets only, up to 120 requests an hour. An API key from this module also returns your organisation's own unpublished datasets — never anybody else's — up to 2,000 requests an hour. Press Issue a new key and copy it straight away: Eden keeps only a fingerprint and cannot show it again.

Environmental assistant

Ask in plain words: What expires in the next 60 days?, Which places have the highest climate risk?, What is waiting to be checked?, Latest PM2.5 at Tema station, Trend of rainfall at Kumasi, What is overdue?, Carbon credit balance, and similar questions about species, alerts, survival rates and forest loss.

The assistant is not a chatbot that guesses. Each answer is worked out exactly from records you are allowed to open, in modules your organisation has switched on, and says what it was worked out from. A question it does not recognise gets a plain I can't answer that and a list of what it can.

The compliance module answers one question well: which limit governs this measurement? A company operating in three countries is subject to three sets of law at once, and the answer differs by country, by sector, sometimes by the zone a plant sits in and the time of day. The module resolves that, keeps your permits and deadlines, and tracks changes in the law.

Telling Eden where you operate

Open Company Profile → Where you operate, or Compliance → Operating in. Add each country, with the local entity name and registration number if they differ from the parent company. One country is the main one; it fills your workspace country, which in turn suggests language, time zone and currency.

How Eden chooses the limit that applies

A single parameter can have several limits: your own internal standard, a national limit, a sector-specific limit and an international guideline. Eden resolves them in a fixed order, and always shows which one it used and why.

Use Limit finder to check any parameter before you rely on it. Type the parameter, pick the medium and facility, and Eden shows the value, its source and the reasoning. A blank field on a limit means applies to all, so a limit with no sector set applies to every sector.

Internal standards

Under Compliance → Company standards you can set a limit tighter than the law requires — common practice for operators who want a margin before a statutory breach. A standard can apply company-wide or to one facility. Mark it overriding only if it should replace the statutory limit in compliance checks; otherwise it is recorded as an internal target alongside the legal one.

Permits

Record every permit with its number, issuing authority, issue and expiry dates, and its conditions. Set renewal lead days to however long your authority takes to process a renewal — Eden raises the renewal action that many days before expiry, not on the expiry date itself.

The compliance calendar

An obligation is something you must do repeatedly: a quarterly report, an annual return, a monitoring round. Give it a frequency and a first due date, and Eden generates dated instances forward from there.

Overdue obligations feed the compliance risk score, so an ignored calendar shows up in your risk figure rather than staying invisible.

Regulatory changes

Regulatory changes lists new and amended rules matched to the countries and sectors you operate in. Each one is recorded with a status: not yet assessed, assessed as relevant, or not applicable. Recording why a change does not apply to you is as valuable as acting on one that does — it is the evidence an auditor asks for.

The exceedance register

Every measurement Eden checks against a limit is recorded here, whether it passed or failed, with the limit used and its source. Exceedances are what a regulator asks about, and the register is your record of how each was identified and handled.

Carbon accounting measures the greenhouse gases your company is responsible for, in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂e). Eden follows the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, which divides emissions into three scopes.

Scope 1 and 2 are normally required first because you control them directly. Scope 3 is usually the largest, and the hardest to measure, because it depends on data from other companies.

Building an inventory

Emission factors

A factor converts an activity into emissions — for example kilograms of CO₂e per litre of diesel. Eden picks the factor by activity key, jurisdiction, year and scope, preferring one that matches your unit exactly.

Scope 2: two numbers, both correct

Scope 2 is calculated twice, because the GHG Protocol requires both:

• Location-based uses the average emissions of the grid you are physically connected to. It reflects the grid as it actually is.
• Market-based reflects the electricity you contractually bought — a green tariff or renewable certificates lower this figure. Record those certificates under Energy attribute certificates for them to count.

Report both. A market-based figure alone, with no location-based number beside it, looks like an attempt to hide the grid.

Reduction targets

A target states how much you will cut, from which base year, by when. Eden supports absolute targets (total tonnes down by X%) and intensity targets (tonnes per unit of production or revenue). It plots your trajectory against the required path so you can see drift early.

Product footprints and life-cycle studies

A product carbon footprint is the emissions of one product per declared unit — a tonne of cement, a litre of product. Build it from components, each with its own quantity and factor. A life-cycle study goes further, covering defined stages from raw materials to end of life, and can report impacts beyond carbon.

Supply chain and Scope 3

Register suppliers with their country, category, criticality and annual spend. For each, record whether they have a code of conduct and whether they report GHG data. Where a supplier gives you real figures, use them; where they do not, Eden estimates from spend. The supply chain page scores suppliers so you can see where to push for real data first.

ESG stands for environmental, social and governance — the three areas investors, lenders and large customers ask about. ESG reporting goes beyond permit compliance: it asks what your company does about climate, people and how it is run.

Several bodies publish frameworks saying what to disclose. Most companies must satisfy more than one. Eden holds one set of figures and maps it onto each framework, so you answer once.

The frameworks Eden supports

Eden also carries BRSR, the UN SDG indicators and ISO 14001 mappings.

Materiality — deciding what to report

You are not expected to report everything. A materiality assessment decides which topics matter enough. Eden scores each topic two ways:

• Impact materiality — how much your company affects people and the environment through this topic.
• Financial materiality — how much this topic affects your company's own prospects and value.

Scoring both is double materiality, which ESRS requires. A topic that is material either way goes in the report. Record who you consulted under Stakeholder engagement: an assessment nobody outside the company contributed to is hard to defend.

Producing a report

The health and safety module covers incidents, the rates calculated from them, chemicals, occupational health, contractors and permits to work.

Reporting an incident

Report everything, including events that hurt nobody. Each incident records what happened, where and when, who was involved, the immediate action taken, and two severities: actual (what did happen) and potential (what could reasonably have happened).

Classifications

The classification drives the safety rates, so being accurate here matters more than it looks. Incidents marked notifiable remind you to inform the regulator within its deadline.

Safety performance — what the rates mean

Rates let a small site and a large one be compared fairly, by expressing injuries per fixed number of hours worked. Eden calculates four:

TRIR and DART use 200,000 (the OSHA convention); LTIFR and severity use 1,000,000 (ILO). Never compare a figure on one base with a figure on the other.

Chemicals

Register each substance with its CAS number, hazard classes, hazard and precautionary statements, and signal word. Attach the safety data sheet. Track quantities and locations in the inventory, with segregation notes where substances must not be stored together.

A chemical risk assessment covers a task, not a substance: the same solvent is low risk poured into a beaker in a fume hood and high risk sprayed in a confined space.

Occupational health

A surveillance programme defines who must be examined, for what, and how often — for example annual audiometry for anyone in a high-noise area. Eden tracks who is due. Exposure monitoring records measured exposures and compares them against occupational exposure limits.

Contractors and permits to work

Prequalify contractors before they work on site: insurance, safety record, competencies. Each contractor worker carries an induction date and expiry, and any competencies the job needs.

A permit to work authorises high-risk work — hot work, confined space, work at height, electrical isolation — after the controls are confirmed in place.

A risk register is the list of things that could go wrong, how bad each would be, what you do about it, and who owns it. Eden supports company-wide and facility-level registers.

Scoring a risk

Each risk is scored on two 1–5 scales, and the score is their product (1–25).

Score it twice. Inherent is the risk with no controls at all. Residual is what remains with your current controls working. The gap between them is what your controls are actually worth — and if there is no gap, the controls are not doing anything.

Set a target score for where the risk should end up, and a velocity for how fast it would arrive: a slow-moving risk leaves time to react, a fast one does not.

Treatment strategies

• Reduce — add or strengthen controls. The usual answer.
• Avoid — stop doing the activity that creates the risk.
• Transfer — insurance or a contract moves the consequence elsewhere. Note that this rarely transfers regulatory or reputational consequences.
• Accept — live with it, consciously and on record, within your risk appetite.

Controls and testing

A control is what keeps a risk down. Record whether it is preventive (stops the event) or detective (tells you it happened), and whether it is technical, procedural or behavioural. Mark the ones you cannot operate safely without as critical.

A control nobody tests is an assumption. Set a test frequency and record each control test with its evidence. Eden flags overdue tests, and a critical control that fails its test should move the residual score straight away.

Key risk indicators

A KRI is a number watched because it moves before the risk does — exceedances per month, overdue actions, contractor induction lapses. Set a green and an amber threshold and a direction (higher or lower is better); readings are then classified automatically.

Give a KRI a source key and Eden reads it from your own data on a schedule instead of waiting for someone to type it in.

Suggested risks

Suggest risks from data looks across Eden — recurring exceedances, repeated incidents, lapsed contractor approvals, missed obligations — and proposes draft risks a register probably ought to contain. Nothing is opened automatically: review each, keep what fits your business, and discard the rest.

Climate risk and scenarios

Climate risk assessment asks how your business fares under different futures. Eden distinguishes two kinds:

• Physical risk — what the changing climate does to you. Acute events (flood, storm, heatwave) and chronic shifts (rainfall patterns, sea level, sustained heat affecting outdoor work).
• Transition risk — what the response to climate change does to you. Carbon pricing, tighter regulation, changing customer requirements, technology shifts, financing conditions.

The scenarios

A scenario is a plausible future, not a prediction. You test the same business against several. Eden ships the ones reporting frameworks expect:

For each assessment, record the scenario, the time horizon (short, medium, long), whether the risk is physical or transition, its likely financial effect, and your response. IFRS S2 and TCFD both ask for this, and both ask you to show resilience under more than one scenario.

Analytics looks at the monitoring data you already have and answers two questions: where is this heading? and does this reading look wrong?

Forecasts — where a parameter is heading

A forecast model reads one parameter from one source and projects it forward. Eden offers several methods:

Set the horizon (how many periods ahead) and the minimum points needed before it will run. A model with too little data is skipped and says so, rather than producing a confident line from four readings.

Predictive alerts

When a forecast crosses a limit within the horizon, Eden raises an alert naming the parameter, the limit, and roughly when the breach is expected. The point is to act while it is still cheap: adjust the process, service the equipment, schedule the maintenance — before the exceedance is a matter of record.

Each alert can be turned into an action on the action board, or dismissed with a reason when you know why the trend is happening and it is expected.

Anomaly detection — readings that do not fit

An anomaly is a reading that does not fit the recent pattern. Most anomalies are not pollution events at all, and that is exactly why they matter:

• A faulty or drifting instrument
• A decimal point in the wrong place, or a value entered in the wrong unit
• A sample taken at the wrong place or time
• A genuine process upset — the case worth acting on

The sensitivity setting controls how far from normal a reading must be before it is flagged. Lower it and you catch more real problems along with more noise; raise it and you see only the extremes. Start around 3 and adjust after a month of use.

Review each anomaly and mark it confirmed, explained or a data error. That feedback is what keeps the register useful — an unreviewed anomaly list is quickly ignored.

The compliance risk score

A single 0–100 figure for how much compliance risk the company is carrying, with bands from low to severe. It combines:

• Recent exceedances, and how severe they were
• Parameters forecast to breach
• Overdue compliance obligations
• Overdue corrective actions, weighted by priority
• Notifiable and high-potential incidents
• Gaps in monitoring data — thin data is itself a risk, because compliance cannot be demonstrated

Each factor is capped, so no single input can dominate the score, and every contribution is written out in plain language beneath it.

Integrations bring data into Eden automatically: continuous monitoring devices in the field, and connections to systems you already run.

Devices and channels

A device is a physical instrument — an air quality station, a noise monitor, an effluent probe. Register it with a reference, its type, the facility it sits at, and its position. A channel is one measurement that device produces: one station may report PM2.5, PM10 and NO₂ on three channels.

Each channel maps to a parameter key so Eden knows which limit applies, and carries its unit, a valid range, and optionally a multiplier and offset for calibration correction.

Readings, and what happens to them

As readings arrive Eden stores them with a quality flag, checks them against the limit resolved for that parameter and facility, and marks any exceedance immediately. Readings outside the valid range are flagged rather than silently accepted.

Device health

Set a reporting interval and an offline after period. If nothing arrives within that period the device is marked offline, so a silent instrument is visible rather than looking like clean air.

Calibration and data quality

Record each calibration with its date and result; Eden tracks when the next is due against the device type's interval. Use data quality flags to mark periods when readings should not count — during calibration, a known fault, maintenance, or a power failure. Flagged periods are excluded from reporting, with the reason on record.

Connections to other systems

A connection links Eden to another system — ERP, HR, a utility portal, a laboratory information system. Field mappings say which field there corresponds to which field here. Sync jobs run on a schedule and record what was transferred, so a failed sync is visible rather than silent.

Webhooks let another system push data to Eden as it happens, instead of waiting for a scheduled pull. Each endpoint has its own secret, which can be rotated without disturbing the others.

Eden needs an internet connection to load and save your data. This keeps your records accurate and private on shared devices, because no one else's data is ever stored on the phone or tablet.

• If your connection drops, a red bar appears at the top of the screen. Anything you type while it shows will not be sent — wait for it to disappear before saving.
• If you open a page with no connection, Eden shows a You're offline screen. It reloads by itself as soon as the connection returns.
• When a new version of Eden is released, a notice appears: A new version of Eden is ready. Click Reload when convenient — save any open form first.

I can't log in

• Check your username (not email)
• Use the password reset link on the login page
• If your account is new, check the email containing temporary credentials
• After three wrong passwords sign-in is held for 15 minutes, even for the right password. Wait, or reset your password — a new password lifts the hold at once
• Contact your administrator if you still cannot sign in

A module has disappeared from my menu

• Your organisation's administrator has probably switched it off. Open Places & indicators → Modules to see what is on. Switching it back on brings everything back; nothing was deleted.

My boundary file is refused

• Shapefiles must be zipped together with their .shp, .shx, .dbf and .prj files. Without the .prj, Eden cannot tell which coordinate system the shape is in.
• A shape whose edges cross each other is refused. Fix it in your mapping software, or redraw it in Eden.
• Files are limited to 8 MB. Simplify a very detailed boundary first.

I can't validate a value

• Nobody can validate a value they recorded. Ask a colleague in your organisation to do it.
• Choose how confident you are before pressing Validate; it is required.

The pivot grid is empty

• Ensure you've selected a category
• Verify parameters exist for your undertaking type (Admin: Configuration → Parameters)
• Try adding a custom parameter to test

Save fails / network error

• Check internet connection
• Refresh the page (your browser caches the page; data on server is safe)
• If consistent, contact your administrator with the error message and time

The chart is blank

• Check browser allows JavaScript
• Try a different browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
• If your data only has zeros, the chart may have nothing to display

Print toolbar shows on the printout

The black toolbar at the top is hidden in print. If it appears, your browser may be set to print backgrounds — uncheck Headers and footers in print settings, or use Save as PDF directly.

Can I edit a submitted submission?

No. Once submitted, you can only delete it (if EPA hasn't reviewed yet) or create a new submission. Contact EPA if a correction is needed for an accepted submission.

Why don't I see point scores during audits?

The point value behind each answer is hidden from auditors. This prevents scoring bias — an auditor picks the answer that matches what they observed, not the one that earns more points.

Why don't I see permissible limits on my data?

Companies can't see Min/Max compliance limits. This is intentional — it ensures companies report actual measured values rather than tailoring entries to known thresholds. EPA staff and admins see all limits.

Can my regulator see my places and observations?

Only the ones you choose to share. Each place and observation is set to Only my organisation, My organisation and the regulator of the country it's in, or Everyone on Eden. A regulator who can see one can read it but never change it.

Why was my value flagged when it is correct?

A flag is a request for a second look, not a judgement. Real extremes — a flood, a spill, a heatwave — fall outside the usual range and are flagged so somebody confirms them. Once a colleague validates the value, it stands as recorded.

Can I have data for past years?

Yes. Create a Monitoring Year for that year, then enter data normally. Eden treats every year as an independent context.

How do I add a parameter that's not in the list?

On the Data Entry page, click + Add custom parameter at the top of the pivot grid. The parameter is saved permanently and tied to your undertaking type, so other companies in the same industry will also see it.

How do I export data?

Use the Print button on any report or submission. The browser's Save as PDF option produces a digital copy. Excel/CSV export is available on Bulk Upload pages for round-trips.

What's the difference between EPA Submissions and the AER-1 Report?

EPA Submissions are periodic (monthly/quarterly/termly). The AER-1 is the annual formal report combining the entire year's data plus narrative sections. Both are valid regulatory deliverables.

Who can I contact for help?

For platform issues — your EPA Admin. For technical bugs — the system maintainer (Wisdsol Tech).

AER-1

Annual Environmental Report Form 1 — the annual reporting template Eden ships with, Ghana’s, structured into Sections A through F. Other countries use their own return.

Audit Answer

A response option for an audit parameter, with an associated point value that auditors do not see.

Audit Category

A grouping of related audit questions, e.g. Air Quality, Waste Management.

Audit Parameter

A single question asked during an audit, e.g. Is emergency lighting functional?

Colour Grade (Band)

The one colour a company carries for a reporting year — gold, green, blue, orange or red. It is the worst of eight indicator colours, not a range on a score, and it appears identically on the register, the certificate and every report. See chapter 18.

Compliance Rate

% of monitoring values that fall within permissible limits. Visible to EPA only.

Data Completeness

Entries filed against entries due so far. A finished year divides by twelve; the year in progress divides by the months elapsed, so a company that is up to date in March reads 100%, not 17%.

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana.

Evaluation Report

The regulator’s formal assessment for one company and year: the eight indicator scores and the overall band. It is the rating of record — every document reads its colour from here.

Evidence

A file or link that backs up an observation — a laboratory certificate, a photo, a field sheet. Eden keeps its fingerprint, so a file swapped after the fact shows as changed.

Indicator (grading)

One of the eight things a company is graded on. Two come from monitoring readings, six from audit sections. Each takes its own colour, and the lowest becomes the company’s band.

Indicator (measured)

Something that can be measured — PM2.5, rainfall, seedling survival — defined once in the indicator library with its unit and method, and recorded as observations.

Module

One part of Eden — carbon accounting, health & safety, places & indicators. An organisation’s administrator can switch most of them off; nothing is deleted when they do.

Monitoring Year

A 12-month reporting context. Each company can have one record per calendar year.

Observation

One measured value of an indicator, at a place and a time, with its source, method, evidence and checks.

Parameter

A specific environmental measurement (BOD, pH, NOx, etc.) with units and optional permissible limits.

Performance Record

What Eden issues instead of a certificate when a company grades orange or red. It states the assessment, marks the certificate withheld, and lists the indicators responsible.

Performance Score

The weighted figure shown beside the band, combining compliance rate, data completeness and audit result. Supporting analysis, not the rating — a company can score 99 and still grade red.

Permit / Permit Number

Official EPA authorisation to operate, with validity dates.

Pivot Grid

A spreadsheet-style table where parameters are rows and months are columns. Used for both data entry and report display.

Place

Anywhere Eden measures, protects or regulates — a station, a facility, a wetland, a protected area — stored with its real shape.

Plausible range

The values an indicator can realistically take. A value outside it is flagged for a person to check. It is not a legal limit.

Provenance

The seven answers kept with every observation: source, date, location, method, evidence, validator and confidence.

Sector

Top-level industry classification (Manufacturing, Mining, etc.). Companies belong to one sector via their undertaking type.

Toxic Parameter

A parameter the regulator has marked toxic on its record — heavy metals, cyanide, arsenic and the like. A single reading above the limit on one of these grades the whole company red.

Undertaking Type

Specific business activity within a sector, e.g. Cement Production under Manufacturing. Drives which parameters a company must monitor.

Validation

A second person in the organisation checking an observation and recording how confident they are in it. Nobody can validate a value they recorded.