When gathering the environmental incident reports that corporations are involved in, MANA’s algorithm captures each individual report of an incident. As one incident may be reported on more than once, the number of incident report is not necessarily a good measure of how frequent companies are involved in such incidents. MANA therefore combines all reports of one incidents into one specific MANA alert.
Assessing the total number of MANA alerts for a given company thus tells us how many environmental incidents the company has been involved in. The higher the number of incidents the more risk its operations pose for the environment and local communities surrounding their operations, which will likely pose a financial risk to the companies’ (potential) investors.