Top 10: Sustainability Reporting Platforms

Sustainability reporting requirements are in a constant state of flux with regulatory changes, evolving global standards and developing expectations from stakeholders. 

With so much to keep track of and so much at stake, organisations are turning to sustainability reporting platforms.

Reporting platforms can help to both improve the quality of sustainability data and speed up the process.

Sustainability Magazine has ranked 10 of the top sustainability reporting platforms.

10. SAP Sustainability Control Tower

CEO: Christian Klein
Headquarters: Walldorf, Germany
Founded: 1972

The SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution allows customers to automatically report on their available ESG data, reducing manpower and mistakes.

The SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution features an AI-enabled capability that increases the accuracy and speed of carbon footprint calculations by providing automated, intelligent emission factor mapping recommendations.

Within both the Control Tower and Footprint Management is a carbon calculator engine that lets customers address the full scope of required emissions reporting as defined in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

9. EcoStruxure Resource Advisor

CEO: Olivier Blum
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1836

Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Resource Advisor brings together energy, ESG and sustainability data to make reporting, visualisation and decision making easier. 

More than 2,000 companies rely on the platform to interpret energy and sustainability data and keep up with changing compliance requirements.

The platform contains ready-to-use indicator templates aligned with frameworks including CSRD, SASB and GRESB, with features to lock controls and maintain auditability.

It also contains EcoStruxure Resource Advisor Copilot, a conversational tool that helps leaders to interact with this data.

8. Normative

CEO: Sebastien Blanc
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2014

“We build carbon accounts with the same rigor as financial accounts - reliable, auditable and actionable, so leaders can see their true carbon costs and make the strategic decisions that cut emissions and strengthen competitiveness,” says Normative CEO Sebastien Blanc.

Alongside this, Normative supports disclosure and reduction planning across large organisations.

It contains a dedicated CSRD solution with workflows for data collection, auditability and ESRS alignment alongside explainers and guidance on the latest SBTi mandates.

7. 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, CEO 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.”

6. 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.”

5. UL 360

CEO: Jennifer Scanlon
Headquarters: Illinois, US
Founded: 1894

UL 360 is UL Solutions’ ESG and sustainability data management platform. It centralises data collection, calculation and disclosure, and sits within the ULTRUS software portfolio.

Its Disclosures Module can pull previously collected and calculated data from the primary platform for seamless completion of disclosures, including CDP, ISSB-based regulations and CSRD.

The Module has workflows down to an individual question level alongside built-in data checks and a full audit trail linking disclosures back to source data.

4. 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. It delivers real-time analysis and emissions trajectory reports covering all scopes.

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.”

3. SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability

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

SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability focuses on audit-ready data management and supports structured data capture via web forms, files and integrations.

SpheraCloud is part of a broader platform that also includes Environmental Accounting, with direct data import into Corporate Sustainability to improve transparency.

Sphera describes the platform as an “audit-proof carbon management solution” and provides updated emission factor libraries to support GHG calculations. 

It has more than 8,400 customers and a million users around the world.

2. Watershed

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

Watershed is an enterprise sustainability platform used for carbon accounting and ESG disclosure. It provides structured data collection, anomaly detection and full traceability.

Watershed’s platform offers more than 60 pre-built integrations to ingest ESRS-relevant data at entity level, uses machine learning to flag gaps and anomalies and builds an audit trail for every number.

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 sustainability data management and carbon accounting platform used to measure emissions across Scope 1, 2 and 3, manage disclosures and support reduction plans.

Sweep centralises ESG and carbon data, provides real-time dashboards and maintains a clear audit trail with documents and descriptions stored alongside each data point.

The company 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”.

Sweep 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”.