[Video] Higg FEM 2026: Get ready for the assessment (1 hr 30m)

hello, and welcome to the Higg FEM twenty twenty six get ready for the assessment webinar. My name is Leah Jaggars, and I'm the associate director of education here at Worldly. This session is for facilities that are new to the Higg FEM or for returning facilities that want to prepare for the upcoming 2026 assessment. We'll look at the assessment from the point of view of a facility that will be actually completing it. Today, we'll cover how the FEM is structured, what the new foundational environmental performance assessment, or FEP is, and what's new for 2026. I'll also cover how to purchase and start your assessment on Worldly, and we will finish with a preparation checklist and a list of resources. And I see there's already a q and a. Let me just check that really quickly. Alright. Great. Alright. So let's get into it. Before we begin, here are some notes about the session. All attendees are muted for the duration of the webinar. Please use the q and a box at the bottom of your screen to submit your questions. The... This will save all the questions into a report. So if I'm not able to get to all of them today, I will definitely be able to follow-up with everyone via email as long as they're submitted into the q and a box. This session is recorded, like I mentioned, and I'll send the recording and the slide deck. So the presentation files as as all the helpful links that I'll be sharing throughout today, via email to everybody who registered. So if you did have a colleague who registered but isn't able to attend live, that's totally fine. I'll be sharing all of that with them as well. Captions are available in multiple languages today. To turn them on, click on the captions or CC button. It should look something like this at the bottom of your screen and then choose your language. We use captions in place of live interpretation today, so please choose the language that is easiest for you to read. And, again, the recording will also have those translated subtitles or captions in them as well. I will leave some time for questions at the end, but please go ahead and submit questions as you think of them so that they are captured. So here's what we'll cover today. First, we'll review how the Higg FEM is structured, its sections, the levels, how scoring works, and the steps that you follow for each cadence. Second, I will introduce the new foundational environmental performance assessment or FEP for short and explain how it relates to the full Higg FEM assessment. Third, we will review what is new for 2026 both in the assessment itself and on the Worldly platform. Fourth, I'll show you the new facility subscription plans, and then I will demonstrate how to navigate the world... The Worldly platform and start your assessment. Fifth, we will review a preparation checklist, and I'll also share that with you as well, and different resources available to you to help you complete the assessment most efficiently and effectively. And then we'll finish with questions and answers. So please keep submitting your questions into the q and a box during the session. Alright. First, I'd like to start off just with a little poll. This helps me, just know familiarity with the Higg FEM. So you should see that on screen. So the question is, how many times have you completed a Higg FEM assessment? The first option is I haven't yet or this year will be the first time. Second option is one to two times. Third is three to four times, and fifth is five plus times. And sixth is I'm not sure. So I'll give you just a moment to answer that, and this really helps me to orient. You know, where should I focus, during the demonstration in particular? Should I spend more time on some stuff, for folks who have never done it before, spend more time on, you know, what are the updates this year, that sort of thing. So it's super helpful, just to give me some context of who's in the room. Looks like most folks are in that one to two to three to four range. Some of you have done it a ton, so five plus times. So kudos. Congratulations. I'm sure that's not easy. But there's also a significant number of people who've never done it. So we'll definitely be covering kind of all of the different things that you might need to know there. Awesome. So in the interest of time, I'm going to go ahead and end the poll, but thank you for sharing. I'll just share the results so you can kind of see, you know, what that looks like for everybody. But no worries. No matter which category you end up in, we'll be covering something that will be helpful for you to know today. Alright. So let's begin with the basics. In this section, I will explain who creates the Higg FEM, what it covers, how the levels and scoring works, and the steps that you follow each year. If you have completed the Higg FEM before, this section is going to be a quick review for you. But if you are new, this section gives you the foundation for everything else in today's session and in the section trainings. So before we look at the actual Higg FEM assessment itself, it helps to understand the two organizations behind it. So first is Cascale. Cascale is the global nonprofit alliance for the consumer goods industry. Cascale owns and develops the Higg Index. For the Higg FEM, Cascale writes the questions, the guidance, the scoring methodology, and the verification program. Cascale also publishes the HowtoHigg guide, is the official guidance for every question. Worldly, on the other hand, who I work for, is the compliance and sustainability platform where companies prove how their products are made so they can report, comply, and act. Worldly is the software where you complete your Higg FEM, arrange verification, and share results with your brand partners. More than 45,000 facilities already use Worldly for their assessments. The Higg index available through Worldly includes five tools, the facility environmental module, which is what we're talking about today, the facility social and labor module, the brand and retail module module, and the mister... Material sustainability index and the product module. Today, like I mentioned, we're focusing on the facility environmental module or Higg FEM. So in short, Cascale creates the content, and Worldly is where you complete it. So next, let us look at what the Higg FEM covers. The Higg FEM is a questionnaire or assessment that measures the environmental performance of your facility. It has seven scored sections. Environmental management systems, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, water use, wastewater, air emissions, waste, and chemical management. Before those seven sections, you will complete the site information and permits section. I always recommend to complete this section first even though you can kind of jump around if you want. Completing the site info first helps the rest of the assessment configure itself properly. So this section, you answer questions about your facility type, the products that you work with, and process, and processes, which then configures the rest of the assessment. The site information and permits section is not scored. However, it is very, very important. If your facility does not have a valid operating license or if a required environmental permit is not available, your entire Higg FEM receives a score of zero. This is because these are basic legal requirements that every facility must meet in order to receive a score. There is options for that required environmental permit question to say not available, but authorization is in progress. So it's really just if you purely do not have that specific permit. And I'll show you what that looks like in the platform as well. Each of the seven scored sections follows the same structure. First are applicability questions and then level one, level two, and level three questions. I'll explain the levels in more detail in just a moment. We will be having section by section trainings through November November, December, and January covering each of these sections in more detail. So if you are new to the Higg FEM, I highly recommend registering for those. They will be live like this one, but you'll also get the recording. So if it's not at a convenient time for you, always recommend registering because you'll get that recording which you can review afterwards. Our site information and permits sessions are next week. So be on the lookout for that, and I'll share a link to that schedule in a little bit. The Higg FEM collects two types of data. First is quantitative data. Quantitative data is data that you report as numbers. This includes how much energy and water your facility uses, how much wastewater and waste it produces, and its air emissions. It also includes things such as baselines and targets. For example, maybe your facility has set a target to use 10% less energy over three years. This would be also considered quantitative data. Facilities usually collect this data from meters, utility invoices, logs, spreadsheets, or internal tracking systems. If you use facility data manager or FDM, you can also import this data into your Higg FEM. And I'll talk a little bit more about that a little bit later. The other type of data that it collects is qualitative data. Qualitative data describes your practices. This includes your site information and permits, your environmental policies, your standard operating procedures, your training plans, and the programs that you take part in. Most of the environmental management system and chemical management sections are qualitative, but every section also has some qualitative questions. A practical step that you can take now is find out who at your facility holds each type of data. For example, energy invoices may be with your finance team, while chemical records may be with your production team. Knowing this before you start will help save you a lot of time in the long run. Within each section, the questions are organized in levels. First, you answer applicability questions. These questions filter the section so that you only see the questions that actually apply to your facility. For example, if your facility does not own or control any vehicles, you'll not see questions about vehicle use if you answer the applicability question correctly. Next is level one. Level one questions cover awareness and basic management. For example, do you know your sources of energy? Do you track your water use? Do you have the required permits? Level two questions cover baselines, targets, and improvement. For example, have you set a baseline for your energy use, set a reduction target, and shown progress against it? Level three questions cover leading and aspirational practices that go beyond what most facilities do today. So this might be community engagement with your surrounding community or working with your subcontractors to improve their processes. You can think of the levels as steps on a staircase. Each level builds on the one before it. Level one is the foundation. And on the next slide, I will explain why level one matters so much for your score. So a little bit about scoring. Level one is important because it controls how much of your section score you can actually earn. If your facility does not achieve level one in a section, that platform will ask you if you want to continue to level two or three optionally. You can choose to answer those questions, but they will not add to your score if you did not achieve level one. Your maximum score for that section is limited to your level one answers. So why would you answer level two and level three questions if you did not achieve level one? First, some brand partners ask for these answers. So check with your brand partners if they have any specific requirements in level two and three. Second, these questions are a useful guide to what your facility can work on next. So even if you're not achieving level one, it might be helpful just to see what's even in level two and three so that as you're making improvement plans, you can plan accordingly. The chart on the right shows how much each level contributes to a section score. Level two has the most weight, 50%. And this is because it covers baselines, targets, and improvements, which are shown to push kind of the most value and improvement at a facility. Level one and level three are each 25%. You can read the full scoring methodology in the Higg FEM scoring system guidance on the HowtoHigg website. And I'll... I don't have the link right now, so I'll share that in just a moment when we get to the demonstration section, and I'll show you where you can find it on HowtoHigg as well. So here's an important point for new facilities. The Higg FEM is not a pass or fail assessment. It is a tool to help you find opportunities to improve. So the most important thing is that you answer honestly and accurately. For each question, generally, you can answer yes, partial yes, no, not applicable, or unknown. The HowtoHigg guide explains exactly what each question needs for a yes answer. Not all of those options are available in every single question, but in some, you'll see all of those options. If you are not sure whether your facility qualifies for a yes, Cascale recommends that you choose the more conservative answer, either partial yes or no. If your assessment is verified, the verifier checks your answers against the same guidance. Support your answers with as much detail as you can in the sub questions. Many questions list suggested uploads in the guidance. These uploads are not required for self assessment, but verifiers will check those documents during verification. So it is a good idea to prepare them now. Next, let's look at the steps that you follow each cadence. Here are the six steps that you'll follow for this upcoming assessment. Step one, collect your data. The Higg FEM twenty twenty six measures your performance for the calendar year. So January 1 to December 31 to 2026. You can begin to collect data and review the questions now. You can also start to enter data. A lot of the information probably won't change except for that quantitative data. So some of your, you know, standard operating procedures, qualitative questions, you can begin to answer now. Step two is complete the self assessment on Worldly. If you completed the Higg FEM last year, you can roll forward your qualitative answers. If you use facility data manager, you can import your twenty twenty six data starting in January 2027. Step three, post your assessment. Posting opens on 01/01/2027. So you can still start your assessment now, start filling it out, but you won't be able to post until January. And that's because, you know, the full reporting year has not ended yet until that point. 04/30/2027 is the date Cascale recommends to post by, but it is not mandatory. And an assessment posted later is just as valuable. Please note that your assessment locks sixty days after you first post it. Until then, you can un post it to fix errors or add documentation. The sixty day rule applies to both the Higg FEM and the foundational environmental performance or FEP. Step four is verify. Verification is optional, but many brand partners will require it. A Cascale approved verifier reviews your level one answers. Verification for Higg FEM 2026 opens on 01/01/2027. However, you can arrange verification, you know, and schedule it for after that point now. So if you do have a verification body that you work with, or are, you know, being asked to use or whatever the case may be, you can begin to arrange that now. Step five, share your self assessment or verified results with your brand partners on Worldly. This can be done either from the assessment overview or from your modules page, and I'll show you where you can do that. Step six, analyze your results in Insights Hub to see where your facility performs well and where it can improve. Two more dates to note. 10/31/2027 is the last day to purchase the Higg FEM 2026, and 12/31/2027 is the last day to post and verify it. Most facilities need three to six weeks to complete the full FEM, so please plan your time accordingly. And like I said, that April 30, isn't a a hard deadline, but many brand partners will have different requirement dates, that they will ask you to complete the assessment by. And you can see this in the platform as well. You'll also receive emails about it. But, yeah, once they send out those requirements, you'll be able to see those dates, in platform. So now let us look at something new this cadence. The foundational environmental performance assessment or FEP. This section is mainly for facilities that have never completed a Higg FEM. If your facility has completed the Higg FEM before, FEP may not be available to you directly, but it is still useful to understand what it is. And there's actually an update so that eligibility guidance is only if you've completed the Higg FEM 2025, you're not eligible. If you've completed a Higg FEM prior to 2025, you may be eligible for the FEP. So what is the FEP? FEP stands for foundational environmental performance. It is a new separate assessment available for the first time this cadence. FEP defines the base level of environmental management practices that should be expected of any manufacturing facility in any region to meet the legal compliance and avoid the most critical risks of environmental harm. It does not measure leadership or advance sustainability. FEP uses a smaller set of questions taken directly from the Higg FEM level one. No new questions were created. As the graphic on the right shows, FEP sits inside level one, and level one sits inside the full Higg FEM. The FEP is not scored and it is not included in Higg index benchmarking. Instead, each question shows as achieved or not achieved. FEP is available all year and it measures your most recent twelve months, not a specific calendar year. For example, if a facility completes the FEP in May 2027, that will report on May 2026 to April 2027. Here's good news for returning facilities. Because every FEP question is already a level one question, every facility that completes the full Higg FEM also receives an FEP result automatically, achieved or not achieved. There's nothing extra that you need to do. The FEP replaces FEM foundations. So if you've ever done foundations in the past, it's pretty similar to that, but even more simplified, basically. Verification for FEP opens on 01/01/2027, and it follows the same workflow as the Higg FEM. FEP is a starting point, not a permanent replacement. Facilities that complete an FEP are expected to move on to the full Higg FEM. To learn why these specific questions were chosen, you can read the Cascale's FEP technical paper, and I'm sharing a link in the chat to that now. So now let us review what is new for 2026. First, I will cover changes to the Higg FEM assessment from Cascale, then I'll cover what's new on the Worldly platform. If you are a returning facility, pay close attention to this section because some questions and answer options have changed since last year. For the Higg FEM 2026, Cascale reviewed the entire HowtoHigg guide. Most of the changes made the guidance clearer, and they did not change what the assessment measures. So if you did do it last year, this assessment this year is not wildly different. It's very, very similar, just more clear guidance. Every section has more detail on how to enter quantitative data. For example, when to round numbers and which fields will accept decimal points. Several sections have more guidance on baselines. Many questions also have new or updated scoring guidance, which explains how your answer is scored. Cascale also updated references. The EMS section now includes notes on ISO fourteen thousand and one twenty twenty six. ZDHC links are updated throughout, and the glossary is also updated. For this cadence, the reporting period is January 1 to 12/31/2026. FEP is now a separate assessment as we discussed. FEM foundations is discontinued and it will no longer be available to complete after 12/31/2026. The full list of changes is in the summary of updates section at the start of the HowtoHigg guide. On the next slide, I will highlight the new question and answer options that you are most likely to notice. And let me see if I can share. I'll have to share that after. Alright. So here are the new question and answer options that you are most likely to notice. This is not a full comprehensive list, but it gives you the highlights. In the site information, there's question that asks if your facility is an agent or trader with a distribution center. This question is not scored and not verified. In the permit table, solid waste discharge is now split into two permits, hazardous and non hazardous waste generation and disposal. Remember that permits can affect your entire score, so check this table carefully. The packaging answer options are also updated, and the questions about environmental programs and certifications have new programs to choose from. In the energy and greenhouse gas or GHG section, you can now report natural gas in therms. There is a new sub question for your eight digit science based target initiative or SBTI ID. There is also a new biomass certification option, SURE or SURE. In water use, there's a new option for rejected water that you reuse for non potable purposes, such as washrooms. Question eighteen and nineteen now ask for your percent change against your baseline. You can enter a negative number to indicate a reduction. In wastewater, the definition of zero liquid discharge is clearer, and there's new guidance on recycled water. In air emissions, there are new air standard options. In waste, slag and boiler ash options are also updated. In chemical management, answer options are updated to align with ZDHC supplier to zero version two and OEKO-TEX Eco Passport and OEKO-TEX STEP are new answer options. Our section trainings will cover each change in more detail. So here's what's new on the Worldly platform, this cadence. First, like I mentioned, FEP is now a separate assessment on Worldly. If your facility is eligible, you will see FEP as an option. A new start page guides first time facilities to the right assessment. Second, your access to Worldly no longer expires. Every facility can log in, view its past assessments, and share them with brand partners at any time even without an active subscription. Third, the import from the BHive. The BHive is Worldly's chemical management platform for your chemical inventory, compliance checks against standards such as ZDHC, MRSL, and records. It is an approved ZDHC InCheck solution provider. Here is how the import works. You keep your chemical data in the BHive during the year. And at the end of the year, you can complete the Higg FEM chemical questionnaire inside the BHive in the Higg FEM connect module. And I'll show you a screenshot of that in just a moment. When you open the chemical management section of your Higg FEM '20 26, you'll see a banner that says your BHive data is ready. You confirm and the section fills in. Every imported answer is marked as coming from the BHive and you can still edit it. If you already use the BHive, ask Worldly to link your BHive and Worldly accounts. If not, you can always add the chemical management plan to your subscription. And I'll cover this in more detail in a moment as well as during the chemical management training the week of January 18. Fourth, a refreshed assessment design. A question and its sub questions stay on one screen. Guidance and the Worldly Assistant are one click away, and you can search for a specific question. One more update for January 2027. After you post, you can ally share your allocated production volume with each brand that you share your Higg FEM with. This is optional and private to each brand. So a little bit about the BHive. Like I mentioned, it's a ZDHC in check provider. If you aren't currently using this, it's not a requirement, but a lot of facilities find it really, really helpful to do their chemical inventory management within this system. And now it's integrated, so you can import your data into the chemical section without needing to, you know, enter the same thing in multiple places, basically. So you keep your chemical data in the BHive during the year, and then at the end of the year, you complete the Higg FEM connect module. Then when you open the chemical management section in your FEM, you'll see the banner indicating that your BHive data is ready. For facilities, this means no double entry. And for brands and verifiers, consistent chemical answers with the same BHive mark on the shared assessment. And, again, please reach out to us if you need to link your accounts. That will be available in platform soon. We're just kind of wrapping up the development for that. But for now, you can reach out to our support team, and they can link those two things together. And here's a little bit of an... A preview of what this looks like. So you can see here in the BHive, there'll be a button that says review and send to Worldly Higg FEM. So there's a handful of questions that you would answer in addition to your chemical inventory management that you may already be doing in the BHive. And then once you send that, then it will come into your chemicals section in the Higg FEM, and you'll see the banner here. So with that, let me ask another question of you just to get a sense of what is the biggest challenge completing the Higg FEM assessment. This helps me to know what I should focus on during the demonstration as well as develop additional content for the section trainings. So the question is, what is your biggest challenge completing the Higg FEM assessment? The first option is time constraints, so not enough time to complete. Second option is personnel constraints, not enough people to help complete. Third option is not sure how to answer questions, so maybe you need more guidance or more training. Fourth is lack of internal systems. So maybe you're not quite sure where everything is stored, where the data lives, that sort of thing. Fifth is collecting data from different sources. So there's a ton of data in the assessment, so this can often be a challenge of just getting it all in one place. And then sixth, I'm new to the Higg FEM or have not yet completed an assessment or something else? And there's no right or wrong answer, and this isn't, like, being used for anything. It just helps me to orient for the demonstration as well as our section trainees in the future. Alright. So far, it looks like collecting data from different sources is is the big one. Also, not sure how to answer questions, but a lot of folks are also new. So that's good to know. During each section training, I generally go over, like, where to find data generally. Obviously, every organization is a little bit different, so that might be different depending on where you work. But I do give tips and tricks of, hey. This person might actually have this information. And sometimes it's an unexpected source where you're like, oh, I wouldn't even assume that they would have anything for that. I'll also go over how to build out different systems. So if you don't, you know, for example, have a good chemical management system or have a good system of collecting data, I'll talk about some of that during the section trainings as well. Alright. In the interest of time, I'm going to go ahead and end the poll. So thank you so much for sharing. And I just shared that with everyone so you can kind of see where everyone is landing. Curious about this something else. So, maybe feel free to email me, with that. That would be helpful to know, and then I can kind of build content around that. But most folks is collecting data, which tends to be the theme. There's just a lot of data to collect. I'll go over some different ways that you can help save time with some of that, but a lot of the section trainings will go over that in more detail as well. Great. So thank you so much for sharing. Alright. So let's get into four different tools that will help you save time and improve the quality of your data. The first is the Worldly Assistant. Facilities tell us this has been one of the most helpful tools for completing the Higg FEM. Worldly Assistant is an AI assistant inside the assessment. You can ask it about any question in your own language, and it will answer in that language. So if you're, you know, primarily speak Chinese, you can ask the question in Chinese. If you speak Vietnamese, you can ask the question in Vietnamese, and it will automatically reply to you in language. It uses the HowtoHigg guidance, the Worldly knowledge base, and the ZDHC knowledge base, and it will list its sources. So for example, you can ask, what is the difference between an RSL and an MRSL? Or what documents do I need for this specific question? And it will give you both an answer as well as resources that you can review in addition to its answer. As with any AI tool, please review its answers and use your own judgment when deciding, you know, the level of accuracy. However, I will say it's very conservative. So if it doesn't have a source for where it's getting an answer, it won't make something up. It'll just say, I don't have information on that specific topic, and try to get you to a resource, but it's generally not going to just pull things out of out of nowhere. The second is outlier detection. Outlier detection reviews your numbers when you enter and post your data. It flags values that look unusual. For example, a value that is very, very different from last year or an impossible number, like, maybe you added an extra couple zeros on accident. This helps you find and correct those errors before you post so that your data is more accurate and your brand partners can trust it. Third is roll forward. Roll forward copies your qualitative answers from last year and displays them in your 2026 assessment. I always recommend if you are rolling forward your data, double check to make sure everything is still accurate. But in a lot of cases, you know, maybe your standard operating procedures haven't really changed that much. Your address hasn't changed, things like that. So a lot of the times, can just review, say, yep. That's still accurate, and then keep going. So roll forward is available if you completed last year's assessment. FDM import or facility data manager brings twelve months of facility data manager data into your quantitative questions so that you do not have to enter the same numbers twice. This will be available in January because you need the full twelve months of data, available. But if you're not yet using facility data manager, you can start using it now and then backdate your data. So even if you don't use FDM right now with your subscription, it's included with the Higg FEM subscription. And then you can start to enter that quantitative data now so that you can kind of chip away at that before you can actually submit the data. This is especially helpful if you have an early deadline from a brand partner. Alright. Next, let's look at how to get started on Worldly. So I'll talk about the new subscription plans, what you can do with and without a subscription, and then a live demonstration. Alright. So here are the new facility subscription plans. These plans start on 11/05/2026 with the launch of Higg FEM 2026. The light, standard, and complete plans are now retired, and each plan is now named after the data that your brand partners ask for. The environmental assessments plan costs 1,099 US dollars per year. If a brand partner asks you for a Higg FEM, this is the plan that you need. It includes the Higg FEM 20 26, the FEP assessment for eligible facilities, and facility data manager. There are two options that are generally by invitation only, and that's going to be FEP by itself and FDM on its own. They are only for facilities who whose brand partners are asking only for FEP or only for FDM, and those facilities will receive email with instructions. If you are asked for a Higg FEM, environmental assessments already covers both. The social and labor assessment, plan costs 899 US dollars per year and includes the Higg facility social and labor module. The chemical management plan costs 750 US dollars per year and includes the BHive. The Beehive is an approved ZDHC nCheck solution provider, and it now imports your chemical data into the Higg FEM. There's also a low chemical use option. So if you use 30 chemicals or less in your production processes, this can be an option for you, and that is $390. For any of the plans that you choose, you pay for each plan upfront for the full year. The monthly amounts on the slides are for reference only to help you compare plans that are not monthly payments. On the next slide, I will show you how to save money if you need more than one plan. If you need more than one plan or if you plan for more than one year, you can save money. The bundle discount gives you 10% off when you add another plan to your environmental assessments plan. For example, if you are also going to be completing a social assessment or chemical management, you can add the second plan when you buy or later, and you'll receive that 10% discount. The two year discount gives you 10% off when you pay for two years upfront. A two year environmental assessment subscription includes the next two editions of the Higg FEM. You can combine the two discounts, so bundling as well as a multiyear subscription for 20% off. For example, environmental assessments and social assessments together cost 1,798 US dollars for one year or 3,237 US dollars for two years. Please note that the low chemical use option... So that, option if you use 30 chemicals or less is not eligible for discounts. However, the full, chemical option is. If you already, purchased a two year plan from last Cadence, you don't need to worry about this. So you already have, you know, a two year plan. You pay that upfront, and then you should be allocated the FEM twenty twenty six, or other assessments depending on what you chose. If you don't see that in your subscription section or you're not seeing the FEM twenty twenty six and you did purchase a two year plan, please reach out to support, and we can get you fixed up. But that's why I highly recommend, if you can, doing a two year plan because then you can save time or save money over time, and then you don't have to worry about any price changes in the future. You can find all plan details on the subscription page in Worldly, which I'll show in a moment during the demonstration. Alright. So here's an important change for this cadence. Your access to Worldly no longer depends on a subscription. On the left, you see what every facility can always do with or without a subscription. You can log in to Worldly, view your past assessments, and share those past assessments with your brand partners at any time. In the past, facilities without an active subscription lost access to all of this. On the right, you will see what still requires an active subscription. So you'll still need a subscription for an assessment to start it, to post, unpost, and to verify it. Insights Hub, where you analyze your results and compare them with benchmarks, is also only available with an active subscription. So to complete the Higg FEM '20 26, you need an environmental assessment subscription. So let me show you how this works on the platform. Alright. Let me go back here. So for anyone who has never used Worldly, logged in to Worldly, or anything like that, I'm sharing the link to the application in the chat, and I'll just show you how to log in generally. So it's just app.worldly.io. If you have never created an account, there's this option create an account right here. If you have an account in... From the past or have logged in before, then you just go log in. And I've got my credentials saved, so I'll just enter that. And then it will take you to your dashboard. Today, I'm going to work out of this staging account. So a couple things, just to kind of orient you. If you are brand new, it might have this big banner right here. You can always hide this, but it does have some helpful links, like, to sign up for the BHive where you can complete information, that sort of thing. But if you don't want to see this, you can always click hide. This upper right hand corner is where you can switch accounts. So if you do have multiple accounts or access to multiple accounts, this is where you can switch between them. This is a staging environment, so it's not our production environment. So I have a bunch of different test accounts, so you probably won't see this many. But this is where you can select different ones. At the top is your account profile. During the account setup, that's some of the information that you'll set. So just to give you an idea of information that you might need initially, your address, it will assign you a Worldly ID. This ID is very, very helpful if you're ever reaching out to support because then that will, let us see, you know, which account you're working out of, where you might need help. So there's a couple of things here, that you can add. Not all of these are required. It's just if you do have, you know, an OS ID or ZDHC ID, you can always add that during setup or in this section. To edit, just click on the little pencil icon, and then you can make changes there. Right below that, you can join more accounts. So if you belong to, let's say, a larger manufacturing group and you have multiple locations that you're responsible for and maybe you're entering data for all of them, if you know that they already have an existing account, you can click join more accounts and then search for them. You can search by their name, address, or any of these IDs. A lot of you, you won't need to worry about that, though. So just be aware, you know, unless you need to access multiple accounts, you're probably just working out of one. Right below that is subscriptions. So in my account, I've already purchased both Higg assessments. So this includes my environmental assessments option, social and labor, and facility data manager, and then it will show you how long your subscription is active for. If you also want to add chemical management, that is available here at the bottom, and this is a special link that will link you to the BHive where you can make that purchase. Very, very shortly, I want to say in the next couple weeks, this will all be, consolidated into one purchase experience. But for now, this is, like, your special link to access, that platform, and then that will grant you that, 10% discount for a twelve month plan. You can also purchase for other accounts. So, again, if you do work for a larger manufacturing group or maybe work for a brand and you're purchasing them for your facilities, you can do the same thing. You can make your selections. The two year option will show you, you know, the the discount that you're receiving, and then you can select and then indicate which, account you're purchasing for. So all of that, again, is just under here under subscriptions. You can also edit your user profile or add people to your team. So this team section, super, super helpful, especially if you have multiple people within your organization that control different pieces of data. So the assessment will automatically save as you're entering data. So I always recommend add more people to your account that are responsible for different data so that it's not all on you. Obviously, you can still review everything and, before submitting, but there's no user limit. So you can just invite new users through this section and then have them help you with answering the assessment questions. Alright. If you ever want to get back to this dashboard, you can click on this upper left hand side logo. And this little world icon in the upper right hand side here, this will translate the entire platform into one of these languages. So you can can choose whichever language there, and it'll change everything into that language. So let's say I chose Chinese. Now everything's in Chinese. There's certain things that are, you know, brand names, so those that won't necessarily be changed, but the rest of it, the content, the question, guidance, all of that will also be translated. So I'll go back to English because that's my language, but, just know that that is available to you. And then lastly is this question mark icon. This is where you can access all of our help resources, which include a large variety of different resources. So the help center is generally written documentation as well as short videos. The learning center is elearning courses. These are fully translated. They are all free, so no need to pay for anything for elearning. When you go there for the very first time, just log in with whatever email and password that you use to log in to the Worldly platform. And then that will grant you access, and then you can take all the different elearning courses. You can also chat with our support team or submit a support request here if you're running into technical issues. Alright. So I have already started my Higg FEM. But generally speaking, if you haven't opened the Higg FEM section, you might click on that first option, and it may take you into this dashboard. So it just depends on where you are, in in the assessment. I've already started mine, so it's showing that this has been initiated. This section will show you all the different actions that you can take on the assessment. It might say start FEM here. If you've already started, you can always go in and view and edit. I've made some progress, but I'm not yet done. So I can kind of see that there. And then as verification starts, then you'll also see the progress of that here. You can also submit from this page, share, as well as select your verifying body or download your data. If I also... Let me just take a step back. Go to to... It's easy. To that section. It may also take you to the modules page. So if you have any past modules that you've submitted, so if you've completed assessments in the past, you can access them here. You can click directly into them, or you can view the overview, view the assessment, or download the certificate. There's also some columns here. So I'm only showing some columns, but you can unhide these to show different columns if you need more information on this page as well. From here, you can also go to the dashboard, which will take you back to this overview page, or you can just click on assessment or that view edit assessment. You may also notice some new little buttons here that say get started. These are our new in app guides. So these will walk you through certain features, certain new parts of the application. Feel free to start those tours, and it'll show you a little bit about that so you can kind of see what that looks like. Sometimes they'll have videos or links off to different resources. So highly recommend checking those out, especially if you are, brand new to the, platform. But you... If you're like, nope. I don't need that. You can always close it out as well. So within the assessment, it's a little... It looks a little bit different, not wildly different, but a little bit different from the past. You can always hide this side panel if you want to give yourself more room on the screen. You can filter by answered or unanswered questions or by topics. So for example, if you're... Maybe you're still doing the full Higg FEM, but you're curious about what's included in FEP, you can filter down to that. Or maybe you want to see just the applicability questions. So there's different filters here. When you're first starting out, I recommend keeping it unfiltered because as you answer questions, it might reveal more questions, and you'll get a sense of, you know, how many sub questions you might need to answer. But if you're getting towards the end of, a section, maybe you just filter by unanswered so that you can just see the things that you need to finish. Or if you're getting close to post your assessment, that can be really helpful. Next to that is search. So you can go within each section, go to the water section like that, or you can search by the section, or the question name or, like, the, like, what's that called? Reference ID. So for example, a lot of the energy section questions start with end source for those reference IDs, so you can search directly for that to find your questions. And then lastly in this section is the assistant. So this is where you can ask questions in your language, and it'll respond to you in language. So maybe I'll say, what documents do I need for energy sources? And then it will search all the guidance and then pull out an answer for you and then provide different resources. This was a very kind of open ended question. So I'm sure as you're going along, if you're like, this is the situation at my facility. How do I go about doing x y z? It will give you a more specific answer. But it'll give you different information, and it's pulling that directly from the guidance. So I highly recommend checking this out if you haven't already. It also goes over, you know, different things that we've talked about during question and answer sessions, pulls from the Cascale guidance, all of that good stuff. It will link the sources here. If there are a lot, though, you can always click on sources and then choose from there as well. Alright. Great. Once you get into the actual assessment, a couple things to know. Each question will have its little box here. If you did roll forward your data, you'll see your previous qualitative answers right below. It won't necessarily auto populate in the actual question itself, but it will show that to you. And then it will also have the different information here kind of telling you more about the question. So this particular question, country or region, is also part of FEP. It's in the site information and permit section. It's covering the current value as well as what's in the reporting year, and it's part of level one verification. Each question will have this optional upload option. So if you do want to upload a document or anything like that, you can do so here. Some of them will require that. Let me see if I can find one here. So for example, I don't think this is technically required, but this is very helpful to include. But if you do see a question that only has that choose file option, that means that's a required file upload. I always recommend upload files wherever you can, especially if you're going through verification because that gives them the ability to check that asynchronously. They don't have to check that when they're on-site necessarily, and it helps that verification process go faster. Next to each question, you can also click on view guidance, and this will show you the information from the HowtoHigg guidance. So sometimes there's a scroll, so just be aware of that. But it will give you all of the information on how to answer the question and then also gives you the option to ask the Worldly assistant a question here as well. Alright. So that is the bulk of what I wanted to cover today. Let me get to some questions. And I apologize. It took a little bit longer than I expected. So I'll get... I'll stay on. Feel free if you, you know, need to hop off. I totally understand. I'll be sending the question and answer report out to all registrants. So if you did submit a question, but you just can't stay on the call much longer, then feel free to hop off totally fine. You'll also get that report. Anything that I can't answer live will also be... The answer will also be in that report. Okay. So let me see. There's a question. What's the use of going from level one and level two? So going to level two will get you... Means that you've achieved level one, number one, and then that will potentially increase your score. So it's not a pass fail, but a higher score does indicate better practices, that sort of thing. So if you do have brand partners that are requesting Higg FEM, they might also ask you to answer some level two or three questions even if you do not achieve them. So check with them if there's any requirement like that, but it is an optional progression if you do not achieve level one. There's a couple questions about the recording. So I'll be sharing the recording to the email that you registered under. That will also include helpful resources and links to different... Like, links to all the places that I mentioned before. It will also include the slide deck. So if you want that as a reference, that will be available to you as well. There was a few of those. Let me just dismiss those. Great. Let's see. This is a bit of a longer question. Let's see. So mentions we cannot ask... Access historical assessment data on the Worldly platform or compare performance year over year. So this year, the historical data is available to you even if you don't have an active subscription. So to access that, if you go to supply chain and, you know, go to Higg FEM and go to modules, now you can log in and you can see past data here. Insights Hub, however, which is under this insight section, insights hub, that does require a subscription. So if you are doing the Higg FEM this year, that will also grant you access to insights hub. But we did make a change this year where you can access your past data without an active subscription. So you still have your account and your account data there. So, hopefully, that helps and totally understand how you're like, I can't see it, and I'm not able to get value out of it when I can't see my past data. But we did make that change, so that is now available to you. Alright. Let's see. There's a question. How can we know which level we should select? We can select by ourselves or a customer. So for levels, it depends on if you mean level one, two, and three. If that's what you mean, those are progression levels. So you achieve level one, then it will automatically open level two and three. It's not something that you have to select. You may have brand partners that are asking you to answer some questions in level two and three, optionally. So if they are asking you to do that, they should already be communicating that to you. Generally speaking, though, if you achieve level one, then those levels... The subsequent levels will open and be available for you to enter. So unlike some other assessments, for example, some social audits ask you to choose which level you're achieving, it's not really like that. It's more like a progression. If you were talking about how do I choose between FEP and FEM, I will say most folks are going to be doing FEM. If you did not do the FEM last year or if you're brand new to the Higg FEM in general, you may be asked to do FEP. So it depends on your brand partners. If you have multiple brand partners asking you to do different assessments, though, if one asks you to do FEM, I recommend just doing the FEM because that also includes your FEP values so that you'll be satisfying both requirements. Let's see. There's a question about verification. Will verification complete level two and three for FEM 2026 or only level one is previous years? Yes. It is only level one this year again. They may change that in the future. I think they're working on that for next year. But for FEM twenty twenty six, it's still level one. Let's see. After this session, where can I find recording and presentation materials? Would it be available to share to my internal colleagues who don't have an account to Worldly? Yes. Absolutely. So I'll share that via email, and then I also do a link on our help site. If you go to just support.worldly.io, after each session, if you go to this videos section, this is where you can find short videos, for example, but also, you know, some of my longer webinars and and things like that end up in this section. So, for example, today's session will also be added to this, section as well. And this is accessible by anyone. Don't need an account or anything like that. The slide deck will be in your email, though. So definitely check that out. Alright. And I answered that. There's a question. Are we able to view the scores for level one, two, and three respectively? Each level isn't necessarily scored, but you will see, like, level achievement. Let me show you what that looks like. So, for example... Let me just miss that. In my last year's, there's this result section. So myself scores 51, and then I can go to this results tab. Within each section, you'll see kind of the level achievement. So for example, I achieved level one and I partially filled... Achieved level two and three. But for water, I achieved level one, but I actually wasn't asked level two and three questions because it wasn't applicable to me. Whereas wastewater, I was asked those questions indicated by these empty bubbles, but I didn't achieve any of the level two and three questions. So you can see that on your results page under this scores section. That will become available to you after you post and submit. And it will show you... This top bar will show your your self assessment score, and then the bottom bar will be the verified assessment score if you get it verified. Let's see. The next question is, does the sixty day assessment lock apply to the module posted after thirtieth, April twenty twenty seventh, or does it apply to any posting date? That's a great question. That applies to any posting date. So if you did post your assessment 01/02/2027, then you have sixty days after that posting date to then make any changes, modifications, etcetera. And to do that, I don't think I can unpost this one. Yeah. So this one's been completed. But if I go to my 2026, once you post, there'll be an option here that says unpost. As long as that option is still available, you can unpost it and then add, you know, add data, correct data, upload documents, things like that within sixty days. So one thing that I recommend is within the platform, once brands are starting to send requirements out through the platform, you'll see those dates on your front page. I'm not being requested quite yet because I'm in staging, But you'll see those dates kind of up here. It'll indicate that here and, like, the different dates that a different brand partner might require of you. So some brand partners might ask you to do it by February. Some are like, no. It can be May. It really just depends on their requirements. If they don't have a requirement, that April 30 date is recommended, but it is not mandatory. But, yeah, after your first posting date, then you get that sixty day window to make changes, and then it will become locked. And then during verification, a verifier might correct things and and upload, you know, evidence and and things like that, but that will be within the verifier's control. So, hopefully, that answered your question. But, yeah, it's not just after April 30. So if you do have, you know, a brand partner that's saying, oh, get it done by June. You know? Maybe wait to post until you feel really, really comfortable that your answers are accurate, and then you'll still have that sixty day window from your first posting date. The next question is, are both self assessment and verification assessments required? This depends. So the platform itself doesn't require verification, So it's not going to, you know, not show you your score, for example, if you don't get it verified. However, your brand partners might require verification. So that's something that you'll need to check with them. It should also display within the platform as well if that's requirement. So that's generally... You know, a third party is requiring that, not necessarily, like, Worldly as an entity, if that makes sense. If you were doing it for your own benefit, then I always recommend verification because then it's a little bit more supported, and you have that third party kind of stamp of approval that this is accurate. But it... You know, there is a cost associated with getting a verifier. So it's really up to you if you don't have any brand requirements for verification. The next question is, is the FDM also mandatory to fill? No. No. So it is included in your subscription if you get an environmental subscription. So if you did want to use FDM, once you make your subscription purchase, you can go in and submit data. It does have a roll forward feature. So if you are using it continuously, this makes it a lot easier, and it'll just pull in your data. And then you just enter that quantitative data. It is not required. You don't have to do FDM to do FEM. It is not a requirement. But if you do so, it can be really helpful to... Example, you could start now, and you can enter things for, you know, January of this year, you know, backdate and backfill your data. And then once 01/01/2027 rolls around, then you can import all that data. So that's a way that you can kind of use both tools and save yourself some time. And then this also has, if we go to the dashboard, kind of this graphical element where it's showing you your progress over time. Mine just looks a little weird because I just put in fake data. But you can kind of see, you know, maybe I'm like, oh, man. What happened in January? I used a lot more gas than I'm used to. This can kind of give you context month over month instead of waiting for the end of the year. And you can also track reduction targets here. So not a requirement. I do want to emphasize that. However, very, very helpful to kind of get additional benefits and value out of the Worldly platform as well as save you time at the end of the year when you can import. Another question about verification. Yes. It is only level one this year. Let's see. There's a question. Why is FEP not available for facilities that have already done FEM? So it's only not available for facilities who did FEM last year. So if you did do it prior to last year, you may be eligible for FEP. And the reason for that is if you've already done an FEM before, you're probably meeting a lot of those foundational requirements within the FEP. So I can go to... Let me just share how to Higg. I'm sharing this in the chat. If you ever need information about either FEM or FEP, go to Higg index tools and then Higg FEM. The, resources are right here. So Higg FEM 2026 resources. This will have all the translated guidance as well. So these are fully translated into these different languages. There's also some additional technical guidance on guidance.cascale.org. And then for FEP, there's a different section, FEP resources. Still within that FEM header, but there's the, downloadable version that is also translated. But, yeah, if you've done an FEM in the past prior to 2025, you may be eligible. But it's just a shorter version, a lot less comprehensive, and you just get achieved or not achieved. It's not like a scored assessment. But the general logic is that, you know, that's like the minimum compliance standards. Whereas the Higg FEM, if you did it last year, you're probably doing more than that, and so you'll be able to answer additional questions. Alright. The next question is the quantitative questions in FEP means data from the last twelve months or the reporting calendar year. That's a great question. So FEP is a rolling twelve month cycle. So unlike the Higg FEM, Higg FEM would be January through December. FEP is whatever month you started, go back twelve months from that time. So that's another difference between the two. So for quantitative questions, same thing. You just go back twelve months. So if you were to start your FEP in May of next year, then you would go from May of this year to April of next year for your quantitative and your qualitative data. I'm trying to find some questions. There's a question. Will the new uptake new update take effect in January 2027? The updated actual assessment is available now, but you can't submit until January 2027. So you can open it, and you can get started on it, which I highly recommend if you have the time to do so. You can get a lot done now. Mainly, the quantitative data is is not necessarily all available. I should also mention... Let me see if I can share that now. I'm not able to find my little resource section. I'll be sharing in the follow-up email. There's a... What's that called? There's a handout that I'll hand out to you. It's a checklist. So there's certain things. For example, if you're answering a question in, like, the energy section and you're like, oh, man. We don't have that for whatever reason. You know, let me just say, yes. I want to answer some optional questions. Like, maybe you haven't set any baselines for your energy use. You could do that now and then be able to answer yes to this. So if in the past you said no, because you're still within the reporting period, you can take a look at that and go, whoops. We don't have that yet. Let me go back. Let me set that up and then be able to answer yes. So that's a good way to, you know, get started on something now so that you can identify some gaps and potentially close those gaps before the end of the reporting period. So definitely recommend that. Also, what I just did right here, this is if you do not achieve level one, you'll see this question. And then if you do want to answer level two and three sections, just say yes, and then that will open up some additional questions. Just be aware if you are answering those optionally, it is not adding to your score. So just be very, very clear about that, but it can be very helpful, especially if you do want to eventually get to those those levels. There's a question. We don't use BHive, so chemical section. We still input data directly on the Higg platform. Right? Yeah. Absolutely. There's no requirement to use BHive. So if I didn't make that clear, you do not have to. It's something totally optional. If you do use it, it's great, and it can really help you get a head start on all of those questions and give you a way to manage all of your chemical inventory. It's a really great tool. We'll be talking more about that. I think we might be having a a specific session on that before January, but I don't think it's scheduled yet. But there is a section on the chemical section in general, where we will also talk more about the BHive. So, again, you can go through and just answer answer questions here, though. You do not have to use the BHive, in order to to do that. Oh, thank you so much, Kathy. Just gave me a comment. That's best training that we've attended. So... Oh, that's really sweet. Thank you so much. Let's see. Oh, there's a question. So, someone said they chose something else with their biggest challenge, and they said, my main issue is the inability to delegate self assessment filling tasks to people who cannot read English. So it is a bottleneck. So localization would be highly appreciated. Yes. I completely understand. And one thing that I do recommend, you know, use these localization options. So the little world icon here, it will translate it into the other languages, and and you can kind of see what that looks like. You still do have to answer questions in English so that it might be, you know, a little bit of a bottleneck still. But quantitative data, you know, things like that, numbers, they can always come in and and fill that out. So highly recommend that. And it will also, you know, you can view guidance. Let me find a question that has that little blurb. So you can view the guidance here. It will show you the guidance in language. So highly recommend using that. Also, I just want to mention, if you ever see problems with the translation, please let us know. It's really, really helpful for us to be aware of that, and then we can go and update it. And this is available in all those different languages, listed here. Also, if you speak a different language, feel free to let us know. We can always, you know, look into adding additional localization options. So really great comment. Alright. I'm seeing a lot of emojis. You guys are so sweet. And, totally, again, if you have to hop off, feel free to hop off. You'll still get the q and a report. So I totally understand we're going a little bit later than expected. Let's see. The next question is, is it required for FDM to be validated before importing data to FEM? No. So if you are getting verified in the FEM, for example, may not even need to because you're already getting that done, you know, in, in the actual verification process. So you can use FDM just for your own purposes. You can use it because a brand is requiring it of you. It just really depends, but you do not have to have it validated before you import the data into FEM. And I always recommend, you know, if a brand isn't requiring you to get that validated in FDM, but they are in FEM, do it in FDM. Don't get it validated, and then have the verification happen in FEM. That way you're saving some money and some time on that validation process. Alright. Next question. If our facility is already subscribed to be hub through a different channel, then we don't need to subscribe the chemical management through Worldly. Right? Right. So if you're already subscribed, just reach out to support, which you can do through this little question icon. You can either chat with them or submit a support request and just say, hey. I already have the BHive. Can you link my accounts? And then just give your BHive ID or, like, the email that you use to log in, and then they can link those accounts for you. So you don't have to then subscribe again, essentially. Clarifying question. Do you have to purchase the chemical management option or not? You don't have to purchase. So up to you. It's just an additional tool that you have available to you. You guys are going crazy with the emojis. Okay. Let's see. Oh, there's a really great question. So is there any rating or performance evaluation system for verification bodies or VB's such as FSLM that can be considered when selecting a verification body for the FEM verification process? Yes. Absolutely. So if you come up to, how to Higg under verification, go to... Ah, if it'll stay, FEM verification program. So let's see. There's all of the, like, protocols that they follow, the field guide. There's also an ethics investigation protocol, so you can kind of review that. And then the quality assurance dashboard as well as, you know, their code of conduct and everything. So I would say take a look at, like, the verifier body dashboard. Actually, that's more for verifiers. Sorry. If you go to this section, this is the list. And I'm... I think I shared this earlier, but if I didn't, I'll include it in the follow-up email. So you can kind of see all of the different verifiers here, how many verifications they've done, all of that good information here. And then you can see if, you know, someone's been deactivated or, you know, click into them to read more about their program. The other thing is that it will also include their score. So you can kind of see this, and this is based on that quality assurance information. And you can also go to their website, contact their main contact, that sort of thing. It will also tell you what locations they support. And there is kind of a side scroll so you can kind of see that if you want to, and you can... I don't know if you can sort. It doesn't look like you can sort, but you can see the scoring here as well. So... Absolutely. And a lot more information about, you know, what is the QA process? What's their trainer status? That sort of thing is available there. And then, also, there's, like, elearning, all of that good stuff here. So... Yeah. So that's all available. Alright. The next question is I need to do my FEM verification in February. I'll probably buy environmental now. However, I need to do the FSLM around August 2027. If I buy the FSLM module later next year in May and June, am I still eligible for the 10% discount? Yes. So as long as you're bundling in some way, you still should be able to get that discount. When you are... Let me go back here. Because I bought both, it doesn't really give me that option. But if you only bought one here, generally speaking, you should see, like, an upgrade option where you can add that. However, you know, if you were to buy it for February, you'll still... Like, the FSLM will still be available, like, twelve months after that purchase point. So it doesn't really matter. I totally understand if you're, like, trying to do budgeting and everything. But if if you know that you're going to do that, you could buy them at the same time if if you have, you know, that already planned. But, yeah, as long as you're bundling both assessments, you'll still be eligible for that discount. And don't forget the multiyear discount as well. And let me go show that here. So, again, if you do buy two years in advance, that way you get that additional 10%. So bundling gets you 10%, and then two years also gets you 10%, so you'd save 20% overall. Alright. Let's see. There's a question. When updating employee data on Higg, should I use the data for the month of December, or should I use an average throughout the year? That's a really great question. So I believe you're speaking about... Let me go back to the assessment. Probably that site info section here. And this is where even I have to look at it. We're like, let me see. So if you click on view guidance, it will tell you. So average numbers, facility should establish a process to track number of workers. Average number of employees can then be determined using the following guidance. So add the total number of employees paid in all paid periods during the reporting year, count the pay periods, divide the number of employees by the number of pay periods, and then round to the next highest whole number. If you wanted to, though, you could also ask the Worldly assistant. So that's an option there. But, again, below each question, especially questions that, like, have a little bit of nuance like that, just check out that view guidance option right below that, and that will give you more information. So the next question is regarding subscriptions, our company has already subscribed to the FEM and FSLM bundle for a two year period running until 2028. Does this package also include FEP, FEM, and the BHive chemical coverage through 2028. So it includes FEM, FEP, and FDM, so facility data manager. The BHive and chemicals is separate. So you can always add that separately if you would like. But for that specific circumstance that you're describing, you'd have FEP, FEM, and FDM as well as your FSLM for that two year period. If you're not seeing something that you're like, I should have that under my subscription section, You know, maybe for whatever reason, you don't see the FSLM popping up as, like, something to start. Please just make us aware of that, and we can take a look and make sure that you're getting allocated the correct things. But... Yeah. But the BHive would be down here. In the future, it will be in one kind of experience. But right now, you'd go purchase if you did want to add that separately. Another question about level one verification. Yep. Just level one this year. Oh, yeah. So kind of a general question just speaking about facility data manager. So just asking kind of to speak about it more. So facility data manager is focused on quantitative data. So I already opened, like, an example here. Once you get all of your kind of site information input, then month over month, you're... It's really just asking how much energy did you use, how much water did you use, just those real basic things for each month. And then, like I mentioned, on your dashboard, you can see all of that data month over month. There we go. And then see, you know, where you're having spikes. It can also... For example, for water, maybe it helps you identify where you have a leak. Like, if you have this sudden jump up in water use and you're like, what happened with that? That can help you identify those things early so that then you can make improvements moving forward, instead of having to wait for the end of the year. So it's really, really focused on that quantitative data. And then it's, integrated with the FEM so you can pull that in. So it helps you save time, in that way. And it also gives you energy, water, and waste, kind of breakdowns here, as well as greenhouse gas. So if you are doing any sort of, like, greenhouse gas reporting on a different time frame or reporting period or anything like that, you can, take a look at that here. And then you can also track different targets. So the target setting form is pretty comprehensive, but you can set targets for all emissions or, you know, different specific, types of energy that you're using. So this is particularly helpful, especially if you are wanting to achieve that level two section. There's a lot of questions about baselines and targets. And so if you are using FDM and you're like, yep. I set a target that I want to improve my... Or, like, increase my solar use and decrease my fossil fuel use, and you're tracking in an FDM, you can use that as a reference within those questions. So it's super helpful for that purpose, and it gets you in the habit of tracking that month over month so that you're not, like, you know, in December going, oh my gosh. Where is all of this data live? I don't have any of this, that sort of thing. And when you do the import, you can also pull in the attachments as well so that you can kind of cross cross reference that. Alright. There was a request for another training in Chinese. We may be able to host those. I'm kind of working with my team. Unfortunately, I don't speak another language fluently, so I'm working with my team to see if we can host those in language. There's also options from the verifiers as well. So verifier bodies are also a lot of the time training bodies, and they do often. Let me see if there's a link specifically here. I'll include the trainer body list. Oh, wait. Here it is. Yeah. So these folks... Let me just chain... Send that in the chat. These are folks that provide additional trainings and also support different languages. So I am working internally to see if we can host some in in other languages, but we are a little limited in in our language assets, I should say. The follow-up email with the recording will have the subtitles in different languages. So if that is something that you need, that will definitely be included. And it's more languages than what we support on our website, for example. So I do... Like like, Korean isn't on this list, but I do translate the subtitles into Korean. And so there's a bunch more different options there. But if you do want an in language training, highly recommend checking out the trainer body list because they generally do provide in language training as well as on-site training. So if you do want someone to kind of come to your facility, that can be a good option as well. Alright. Alright. I am getting oh, there's a ton of questions. So, unfortunately, we're about a half an hour over, so I do apologize. I think a lot of people are starting to drop off. Anything that got submitted into the q and a report, I'm going to be pulling those out and answering those in the report. So in the follow-up email that I'll be sending you, I'll include the slide deck, the recording with translated subtitles in multiple languages, any and all links that I referenced, as well as that checklist handout. Highly recommend checking out that handout. It'll go through things that you can kind of get started on now, as well as has helpful links to different things. I also recommend if you are brand new, check out the learning center. That has translated to elearning courses as well. So I'll include a link to that, how to log in to that, and all of that. And then if you did submit a question through the q and a box that I wasn't able to get to live because I know I could talk a lot, I will, answer those within the, question and answer report, and then you can see that there. But feel free if you get the email. Give me, like, a day or two, to to complete all those questions. But if you do get the email and, you know, your question wasn't answered or you had an additional question, you can always just reply to that email as well. And I'll get that, and I'll be able to reply to you. So with that, I really hope this was helpful. Thank you everyone who stayed on a little bit longer. I know it went longer than expected. It kind of happens a lot, but, thank you so much. On... Once I close down this, it'll have a quick survey just asking how it went, asking for anything else that you might want to know. And then also, last but not least, let me just chain... Share this schedule. So this is in the chat. Our next session, we are having another session more for EMEA America time zones. So you can register there if you want to attend again and ask different questions. No problem there. But we have a series of different, deep dives into each section. So especially if you're new, or if it's been a while since you came back to the FEM, you know, check these out. You can register. Even if you can't attend live, I'll send you the recording as well. So... Yeah. And there's a lot of them. So there's a few more. So if you're like, I really need to know about air emissions. I don't need to know about anything else. You can always register for that there. Alright. So we are way over time. I really appreciate, everybody's time and attention today. And with that, I'll, let you guys go and enjoy the rest of your day. And, yeah, let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to reply to the email that you'll get from me, in a day or two. Alright. Thanks, everyone. Have a good day.