How Watershed’s AI ESG Platform Tackles Scope 3 Emissions

As sustainability expectations continue to rise, organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver measurable environmental outcomes while meeting increasingly complex reporting requirements.

Companies need more than good intentions, they need accurate data, actionable insights and scalable solutions that transform sustainability from a compliance exercise into a strategic business advantage.

Watershed is helping some of the world's leading organisations achieve exactly that, enabling faster decarbonisation through science-backed methodologies, powerful AI capabilities and transparent reporting.

Transforming sustainability through intelligent data

Leading global organisations including Airbnb, BBVA, Spotify, DP World, Klarna, Delivery Hero, Grupo Dia, Roche and Liberty Global are using Watershed to streamline sustainability management and accelerate climate action.

The platform enables companies to measure carbon emissions, water consumption, land use, waste and other environmental impacts with unprecedented precision. 

"Carbon management is an operational challenge that touches every corner of global enterprises," said Taylor Francis, Co-Founder of Watershed. 

"We built Watershed to tame that complexity and turn sustainability into a business driver for our customers. 

“We're proud to be recognised as an industry leader by Verdantix for our work and we're grateful to the customers who have trusted Watershed's sustainability AI to power theirs."

Supported by a database of more than 500,000 emissions factors and methodologies covering 95% of global GDP, Watershed provides businesses with a complete and transparent view of their environmental footprint.

By combining rigorous climate science with advanced AI, sustainability teams can automate data ingestion, identify emissions hotspots, analyse year-over-year changes and generate audit-ready reports with greater speed and confidence. 

The result is a more efficient path from measurement to meaningful action, helping organisations uncover operational efficiencies, manage risk and identify new opportunities for sustainable growth. 

Real-world outcomes are already being achieved, with Canva reducing approximately 15,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually through its partnership with Watershed and participation in a community solar project in Illinois, demonstrating how robust sustainability data can translate into measurable climate impact.

Leadership driving climate impact

At the heart of Watershed's success are co-founders and CEOs Taylor Francis and Christian Anderson, whose vision has helped establish the company as a leading force in sustainability technology.

Since launching Watershed in 2019, Taylor and Christian have focused on accelerating the climate economy by giving organisations the tools to measure, report and reduce environmental impact with confidence and transparency.

Under their leadership, Watershed has developed a sustainability AI platform that combines deep climate expertise with cutting-edge technology, helping organisations move beyond compliance and drive real emissions reductions.

Their commitment to scientific rigor, transparent methodologies and customer success has helped companies transform sustainability into a source of measurable business value.

Today, Watershed supports customers managing more than three gigatonnes of emissions and is working toward an ambitious goal of helping reduce or remove 500 megatonnes of CO₂e by 2030, approximately 1% of annual global emissions.

Closing the Scope 3 gap

One of the most significant challenges facing businesses today is improving the quality and reliability of Scope 3 emissions data across complex global supply chains. 

To address this challenge, Watershed has partnered with EcoVadis, the global standard for resilient, sustainable supply chains, to create a seamless decarbonisation workflow that combines supplier-specific data collection with advanced sustainability measurement and reporting.

“Unlocking the next generation of Scope 3 emissions reduction requires a level of carbon data reliability that has historically been missing from the market,” said Dexter Galvin, SVP climate at EcoVadis. 

“By acting as the primary data engine for the industry, EcoVadis provides organisations with the high-quality, supplier-specific data they can trust to move beyond estimates. 

“These new partnerships are a pivotal step in driving meaningful, measurable action and building true climate resilience across the global supply chain.”

The collaboration brings together the strengths of both platforms. 

EcoVadis serves as the primary data engine, providing tools for direct supplier reporting, collaboration and upskilling through a four-level framework that identifies the most reliable primary data. 

Watershed acts as the measurement engine, centralising, modeling and analysing that data through its sustainability AI platform to deliver audit-ready reporting and actionable insights. 

"We're thrilled to see our customers adopting sophisticated Scope 3 measurement tools," said David Ban, Head of Data Partnerships at Watershed.

"Our partnership with EcoVadis exemplifies our belief that actionable, accurate and accessible supplier-specific data is at the core of driving real decarbonisation."