Give an example of an environment topic and its associated metric.

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Energy management is the environment topic that naturally pairs with metrics like total energy consumed and energy intensity. These metrics directly quantify how much energy a company uses and how efficiently it uses it, which is exactly what energy management aims to measure. Total energy consumed captures the overall energy demand, while energy intensity shows energy use relative to production or revenue, enabling meaningful comparisons over time or across peers. The other options point to different environmental topics—water use efficiency aligns with a water topic, waste diversion rate with waste, and emissions per unit produced with emissions—so they don’t illustrate the standard pairing of a single environment topic with its core metrics as clearly as energy management does.