Top 10: Decarbonisation Platforms

Decarbonisation can come with a lot of data, particularly in businesses with huge supply chains. 

A report from BCG says that more than 90% of companies are not measuring their emissions regularly and accurately.

Decarbonisation platforms are built to tackle this task, freeing up time to take action. 

Sustainability Magazine has ranked 10 of the top decarbonisation platforms.

10. Novata

CEO: Alex Friedman
Headquarters: New York, US
Founded: 2021

Novata aims to streamline ESG data collection, simplify carbon accounting and reduce reporting overhead in sustainability. 

The business is collaborating with Microsoft to leverage its Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric alongside co-developing AI-powered technologies. 

“We are excited to deepen our relationship with Microsoft, a company that has not only revolutionised productivity but has also been a leader in addressing the climate crisis and leveraging AI for good,” says Alex Friedman, CEO and Co-Founder of Novata. 

9. Plan A

CEO: Lubomila Jordanova
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2017

Plan A describes itself as one platform to “master your entire net zero journey” covering carbon accounting, carbon reporting and decarbonisation itself. 

It contains more than 3,500 decarbonisation solutions and activities that businesses can implement to catalyse change and make progress on net zero targets.

Lubomila Jordanova, CEO of Plan A, says: “It has never been easier to manage non-financial reporting and sustainable transformation, allowing businesses to focus on the things that matter: mitigating their impact.”

8. Diligent

CEO: Brian Stafford
Headquarters: New York, US
Founded: 1994

Diligent provides ESG monitoring and mapping aligned with a range of global standards as well as an organisation’s internal benchmarks. 

The platform is able to produce sustainability and carbon reports instantly in line with reporting schemes.

“In today’s dynamic business landscape, enterprise risk management isn’t just strategy – it’s a lifeline,” says Brian Stafford, President and CEO at Diligent. 

“By anticipating potential risks and challenges, ERM not only safeguards an organisation’s success but helps unlock new opportunities for long-term growth.”

7. Workiva

CEO: Julie Iskow
Headquarters: Iowa, US
Founded: 2008

More than 6,000 companies around the world rely on Workiva’s software for corporate reporting, ESG, audits and risk management. It provides assured, data-driven insights.

In 2024, the business introduced Workiva Carbon, focussed on carbon accounting, carbon management and decarbonisation. It aims to unify carbon and financial data within one AI-powered platform.

“The demand for transparency is exploding,” says Julie Iskow, President and CEO at Workiva.

“Reporting teams are now responsible for providing information that significantly impacts business outcomes.”

6. Persefoni

CEO: Kentaro Kawamori
Headquarters: Arizona, US
Founded: 2020

Persefoni focuses on decarbonisation management and carbon reporting, covering Scope 3 emissions from suppliers. 

Its extensive tools enable the development of practical decarbonisation plans, including reduction modelling. 

In 2024, it introduced a free tier of its carbon accounting and management platform to “democratise” sustainability. 

Kentaro Kawamori, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, explains: “To us, democratising carbon accounting means that we're working to significantly reduce both the commercial and technical barriers to being able to create these footprints.”

5. Greenly 

CEO: Alexis Normand
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2019

Greenly is a carbon accounting platform that can be tailored to a company’s maturity level and sector. 

Alexis Normand, Co-Founder and CEO at Greenly, says: “Companies want both precision and automation. And that's really hard to do when data comes in an unstructured form. 

“So our platform is constantly inventing new ways to structure data more simply. And when data is structured, we work on easing the flow into our platform.”

The platform delivers real-time analysis and emissions trajectory reports covering all scopes, while also supporting employee engagement with sustainability initiatives.

4. Sphera

CEO: Paul Marushka
Headquarters: Illinois, US
Founded: 2016

Sphera describes itself as “the only company providing a 360-degree view of sustainability and performance management at the enterprise, operations, product and supply chain levels”.

The company also released SpheraCloud Life Cycle Assessment Database Server designed to increase data accuracy and eliminate manual data management.

“The world’s leading LCA software just got even better—empowering teams with centralised collaboration, smarter decision-making and seamless scalability to cut costs, reduce risk and drive sustainability,” said Paul Marushka, CEO and President of Sphera.

3. Salesforce Net Zero Cloud

CEO: Marc Benioff
Headquarters: California, US
Founded: 1999

Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud is a decarbonisation platform to assist organisations in tracking, managing and reducing carbon emissions within a wider ESG framework.

Net Zero Cloud integrates with Data Cloud and Agentforce, connecting large volumes of detailed sustainability data across finance, procurement and operations without the need for data movement or reformatting. 

Prashanthi Sudhakar, Head of Product for Net Zero Cloud at Salesforce, says: “We recently launched Agentforce for Net Zero Cloud - a powerful new capability that transforms how sustainability teams work. 

“Unlike traditional solutions, Agentforce for Net Zero Cloud streamlines sustainability reporting, cuts operational costs and boosts efficiency with pre-built agent topics and actions.

“Because sustainability is a core value at Salesforce, Agentforce is built with efficiency in mind. Our compact, purpose-built AI models are significantly lighter than frontier LLMs, eliminating the need for costly fine-tuning and minimising environmental impact.”

2. Watershed

CEO: Taylor Francis
Headquarters: California, US
Founded: 2019

Watershed is an all-in-one enterprise decarbonisation platform, supporting organisations from various sectors. It offers tools for measuring, reporting and taking action on decarbonisation, boasting the “highest quality” data.

Its measurement approach follows science-based targets, allowing for assessments with material-specific emissions factors. Customers can also access a curated marketplace of carbon projects and virtual power purchase agreements.

Major firms such as General Motors, FedEx, Visa and DP World use Watershed to aid their decarbonisation efforts.

“Watershed came in as the best partner to help us attain our sustainability goals while allowing us to be flexible and cost-efficient,” said Nicholas Mazzei, VP Sustainability Europe at DP World.

In 2024, nearly 25,000 companies disclosed environmental data through CDP and the platform chose Watershed to support its own emissions reporting.

"We are honoured that CDP will be using Watershed to report to CDP—and execute on their leading-by-example sustainability program," said Taylor Francis, Co-Founder of Watershed.

1. Sweep

CEO: Rachel Delacour
Headquarters: Montpellier, France
Founded: 2020

Sweep is a decarbonisation platform helping businesses to manage risk, drive growth and stay compliant. It works with some of the biggest in business, including BlackRock, L'Oréal and Orange Group. Orange Group’s CEO, Christel Heydemann, described Sweep as “simply the best”.

Sweep delivers transparent, granular and actionable data-driven insights. Its platform aims to empower decision-makers to identify regulatory and climate risks, design robust ESG transition plans and build long-term business resilience. 

Sweep is B Corp certified and an active member of the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, France Invest and the International Emissions Trading Association.

Rachel Delacour, Sweep’s Co-Founder and CEO, says: “Every company is poised to disrupt the climate crisis and build a sustainable future. Those that take every possible action today will become the Forever Companies of tomorrow.

"Sweep provides the tools needed to tackle the complexities of sustainability data management, to accelerate climate action”.