environmental impact: classificationScheme code and array of classification objects

[odscjen]

Background

This issue relates to the following CoST IDS elements proposed in the CoST IDS/OC4IDS review:

Environmental impact category

## Environmental impact category **Module:** Environment and climate **Indicator:** Environmental impact ### Disclosure format > Indicate the category that reflects the magnitude of environmental impact. Consider the following to rate the project: - Category A: projects with potential significant adverse environmental or social risks and/or impacts that are diverse, irreversible, or unprecedented. - Category B: projects with potential limited adverse environmental or social risks and/or impacts that are few in number, generally site-specific, largely reversible, and readily addressed through mitigation measures. - Category C: projects with minimal or no adverse environmental or social risks and/or impacts. (Select from a list: A/B/C - Specify list as IFC's Environmental and Social Categorization). If the analysis was not developed, select the option “assessment not conducted in project appraisal”. ### OC4IDS mapping > Project level: 1. If an environmental impact assessment was conducted, set `.environment.hasImpactAssessment` to true. If an environmental impact assessment was not conducted, set `environmental.hasImpactAssessment` to false. 2. Add a `Classification` object to the `.environment.impactClassifications` array, set its `.scheme` to “ifc-environmental-social” and set its `.id` to the letter for the category into which the project falls.

Proposal

Add a boolean hasImpactAssessment field to a new environment object (summarised in this issue), create array of Classification objects called impactCategories to hold the categorization of the impact, and add the code “ifc-environmental-social” to the classificationScheme codelist to allow the classification of the environmental impact of the project

Add the following fields and objects:

Path | Title | Description | Type (format) | Codelist -- | -- | -- | -- | -- environmental.hasImpactAssessment | Has impact assessment | Whether an environmental impact assessment has been conducted. | boolean | - environmental.impactCategories | Impact categories | The categories of the environmental impact of the project. | array of `Classification` objects | -

Add the following codes:

Codelist | Code | Title | Description -- | -- | -- | -- classificationScheme | ifc-environmental-social | International Finance Corporation’s Policy on environmental and social sustainability | As part of the review of environmental and social risks and impacts of a  proposed investment,IFC uses a process of environmental and social categorization to reflect the magnitude of risks and impacts

Example

{ 
 "environment": { 
   "hasImpactAssessment": true, 
   "impactCategories": [ 
    { 
    "scheme": "ifc-environmental-social", 
    "id": "a" 
    } 
   ] 
 } 
} 

Sources

International Finance Corporation’s Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability (paragraph 40) https://www.ifc.org/content/dam/ifc/doc/mgrt/sp-english-2012.pdf

cc @evelyndinora

[jpmckinney]

👍 but impactCategorizations > impactCategories (categorization means more the "scheme" that contains categories)

[odscjen]

good catch, that's what I get for changing field names at the end of the day!

[odscjen]

moving to Agreed as this was marked as approved by CoST in offline discussions