Emissions tracking software · for operations teams
Emissions tracking software: fuel, refrigerants and process gases, site by site
Emissions tracking software follows the greenhouse gases a site releases — fuel burned, refrigerant leaked and process gases — gas by gas, through the year.
It is the operations end of carbon reporting: the place where Scope 1 is made, and where UK law already asks for records such as F-gas leak checks.
For tracking a carbon figure from bills, closing periods and real-time data, see carbon emissions tracking software.
Scope 1
What does emissions tracking software track? Four sources of Scope 1
The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard sorts direct emissions into four sources: stationary combustion, mobile combustion, process emissions and fugitive emissions.
Bills capture the first two reasonably well; the last two come from operational records that a finance-led carbon tool rarely sees.
That is the gap emissions tracking software fills: each source, each gas, from the record where it starts.
- 1
Stationary combustion
Boilers, furnaces, generators, CHP: fuel by meter or delivery.
- 2
Mobile combustion
Owned vehicles and plant: litres from fuel cards.
- 3
Process emissions
Gases from chemical or physical processes, not combustion.
- 4
Fugitive emissions
Leaks: refrigerant, SF6 in switchgear, methane.
The gases
Which gases must it convert? Seven, not just CO2
The Corporate Standard as amended in 2013 covers seven gases, and each is converted to CO2 equivalent with a global warming potential.
A tool should keep the gas quantity, the GWP and its source table, not only the CO2e result, so a change of table can be explained.
The DESNZ 2026 conversion factors include refrigerant and process-gas rows for UK reporters.
Seven gases
CO2
Seven gases
CH4
Seven gases
N2O
Seven gases
HFCs
Seven gases
PFCs and SF6
Refrigerants
What does F-gas law already make you record? Leak checks and five-year records
| Equipment charge (tCO2e) | Leak check at least every | With leak detection |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to under 50 | 12 months | 24 months |
| 50 to under 500 | 6 months | 12 months |
| 500 or more | 3 months | 6 months |
In Great Britain an operator of stationary refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps or fire protection holding 5 tonnes CO2e or more of F-gas must have it leak-checked (Article 4).
For each such item it keeps records of the gas installed, the quantities added — including “due to leakage” — and the dates and results of checks, for at least five years (Article 6).
Those records are the raw data for fugitive Scope 1, so a tool that reads them avoids a second, guessed leakage figure.
Northern Ireland follows the EU regime under the Windsor Framework, so these GB thresholds should not be applied there.
One site, run through
What does a cold-chain site need to track? A labelled case
Fenland Fresh Ltd is an illustrative food packer with cold stores and a refrigerated fleet.
Its bills show gas and diesel, but its chillers and truck refrigeration units sit under the GB leak-check duty, and every top-up is a fugitive emission.
A bill-based carbon tool would miss those top-ups; an emissions tracking tool that reads the engineer’s records would not.
Fenland Fresh Ltd (illustrative)
Stationary
Fenland Fresh Ltd (illustrative)
Mobile
Fenland Fresh Ltd (illustrative)
Fugitive
Site regimes
Which UK regimes ask for site emissions data? Three, beside corporate reporting
UK ETS
31 MarchVerified report; surrender by 30 AprilEnvironmental permits
England and WalesEPR 2016; Pollution Inventory by noticeF-gas
Five yearsRecords per item of equipment, GBA UK ETS installation submits a verified emissions report for the calendar year by 31 March and surrenders allowances by 30 April (DESNZ), with a penalty for excess emissions under article 52.
Permitted sites in England and Wales report releases to the Pollution Inventory when the regulator serves notice under regulation 61 of the 2016 Regulations.
Those are site regimes with their own monitoring rules; corporate figures for SECR or UK SRS S2 sit on top of the same data. The UK ETS software guide covers the trading scheme in full.
Your gap
Where is your emissions data weakest? Find the layer
Three questions beside this text find whether your problem is data, measurement or disclosure.
For most operations teams it is data: the leak-check sheets and process logs exist, but not in a form a carbon tool reads.
Which layer is your problem?
Three yes/no questions; the first “no” decides.
Nothing is stored or sent.
60 vendors
Which platforms say they do it? Carbon and EHS vendors, in their own words
60 vendors · carbon accounting, ehs
“Altruistiq helps companies with complex value chains go faster and further on sustainability”
“Intelligent AI that measures, reduces, and reports Scope 1–3 and LCA emissions in line with CDP, SBTi, CSRD, and CBAM requirements”
“Benchmark Gensuite is a unified EHS management software platform built on a single architecture—connecting safety, environmental compliance, and operational risk across every site”
“Our software provides companies and financial institutions with precise accounting of the emissions caused by making, shipping and using critical commodities and products around the globe”
“Measure, reduce, and report your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions”
“The professional benchmarking and reporting platform built for sustainability consultants, SMEs, and the platforms that serve them”
“Coolset gives supply chain and ESG teams the structure, automation and guidance to meet complex compliance requirements like EUDR, PPWR and CSRD, and manage Scope 1-3 emissions”
“One AI-enabled EHS software platform to drive performance across employee health, safety, quality, environmental, and sustainability”
“Cozero helps enterprises steer decarbonization with the same rigor as financial performance, from data collection to investment decisions and regulatory disclosure”
“Dcycle is an ESG software platform founded in 2020 that helps companies collect, manage, and govern sustainability and non-financial data”
Diginex describes carbon accounting, sustainability reporting, supply chain, human rights monitoring and ESG investor intelligence for asset managers, banks and companies.
Diligent’s carbon accounting page describes a solution that “automatically collates your data and produces up to 80 different pre-configured audit-ready reports”.
Ecologi describes itself as a B Corp-certified climate action platform.
EcoOnline sells software to manage EHS and compliance.
“The Emitwise platform is now part of Green Project, where the team continues to build and deliver end-to-end decarbonization solutions”
“Enablon is Wolters Kluwer’s integrated software platform for environment, health and safety, PSM, and enterprise oversight, with ESG capabilities embedded as part of a broader risk approach”
“Collect, analyze, and report sustainability, financial, and risk KPIs with 10+ software modules – individually or in line with official standards”
“Manage safety, compliance, ESG, sustainability and operational risk from a platform built to keep programs reliable across sites, teams and operational change”
“The climate management platform built on AI, backed by dedicated sustainability experts”
“Measure, report, and reduce your company's emissions on one audit-ready sustainability management platform”
IBM describes Envizi as a “compliance ready solution for ESG data”.
“Ideagen Carbon Accounting is an AI-powered solution designed to address complex multi-region ESG reporting challenges in carbon accounting”
“Bring safety, environment, and quality workflows into one connected platform”
IsoMetrix sells software to “manage their environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and social risks”.
“Makersite’s Product Lifecycle Intelligence software brings together your cost, environment, compliance, and risk data in one place”
“Manglai is a platform to manage all of your environmental impact”
“Measurabl makes subjective sustainability data objective”
Microsoft Sustainability Manager
“Track and reduce your environmental impact using data and AI”
A carbon management platform that, in Novisto’s words, “simplifies the collection, calculation, and reporting of corporate carbon footprints”.
“Net Zero Now exists to provide a simple, credible and affordable route to Net Zero for SMEs and to celebrate and promote those that achieve this vitally important goal”
“Normative is a carbon accounting platform that helps companies calculate, report, and reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions using 349,000 verified emission factors”
“Novata is a sustainability data management platform built for private market investors, deal teams, banks, and companies that need a scalable way to collect, manage, and act on sustainability data”
“One digital solution for sustainability planning, data management, reporting, analysis and action - built for enterprise”
“Our platform empowers organizations to accurately measure and manage scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions with direct and actionable information”
Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability
“Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability is a new offering to capture environmental, social, and governance data for any kind of activity that has a sustainability impact”
“osapiens is the AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence to help companies manage risk and become more resilient”
Persefoni describes software and AI tools to manage an organisation’s “sustainability data, disclosures, and performance”.
“Your certified software for reliable emissions intelligence to measure, report and reduce your carbon footprint”
“We guide businesses in understanding their emissions, empower them to develop carbon reduction plans, and supporting them on their journey to net zero”
Position Green describes “a sustainability reporting and management platform that combines powerful software with expert advisory services”.
“Pulsora is an AI-powered sustainability and carbon management platform that automates data collection, measurement, and reporting workflows for sustainability teams”
“Digitally handle occupational safety, quality, sustainability, and environmental management”
“It leverages the full power of the Salesforce ecosystem by pulling an organization’s sustainability data into one place and creating actionable insights to guide strategic decisions”
“Measure your full carbon footprint, build your net zero strategy and develop in-house expertise with a single partner”
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
“Decarbonize your value chain and calculate your corporate and product carbon footprint at scale with ERP-centric, AI-enabled carbon management”
“Seedling is an all-in-one carbon accounting and Net Zero planning platform for businesses of up to 2000 FTEs”
ServiceNow Operational Sustainability Management
“ServiceNow Operational Sustainability Management helps organizations manage, visualize, and report on sustainability efforts and risks across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs”
“SimaPro is life cycle assessment software that helps organizations measure, analyze, and reduce environmental impacts using robust datasets, scientific methods, and transparent modeling”
SINAI describes “audit-grade Scope 1–3 accounting, automated compliance reporting, complete supply chain visibility” and decarbonisation planning for global enterprises.
“Small99 Hero creates a pathway to net zero for you based on your industry, outlining how long your Net Zero journey will take and how much it will cost”
“Sphera unifies risk, safety and sustainability into a single enterprise-wide view — connecting intelligence across operations, products and supply chains”
“Sweep's AI turns sustainability data into measurable business performance”
“Manage sustainability metrics intelligently in medium-sized businesses - through automated processes, AI-powered carbon accounting, and audit-proof ESG reports”
“Terrascope is an enterprise carbon management and decarbonisation platform for companies with complex supply chains”
“Trace combines AI-powered software with expert advisory support to help organisations meet their mandatory climate and sustainability reporting obligations, efficiently and with confidence”
“Unravel Carbon is the climate platform helping companies with global supply chains make data-driven decisions”
“Carbon accounting is often the first step companies take toward climate disclosure, compliance, and action—and with Watershed, it’s part of your complete enterprise sustainability platform”
Workday (supplier sustainability)
“Turn sustainable sourcing into a competitive advantage with Workday supplier sustainability solutions”
“Workiva Carbon is an end-to-end carbon accounting software solution that enables organizations to measure, manage, collaborate on, and report emissions data”
“Carbon management software with experts built in, so you can move from measurement to action without spreadsheets or one-off consulting projects”
Alphabetical, which ranks nothing.
Each description is the vendor’s own words from its own site, read 11 October 2026 and 30 September–1 October 2026; prices appear only where the vendor publishes one.
No product here has been tested by this site.
The list brings together carbon accounting specialists and EHS platforms with long experience of site operations; each description is the vendor’s own.
Two traditions
Carbon platforms
Two traditions
EHS platforms
Two traditions
What to test
Two traditions
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In the demo
What should an operations team ask? Six tests
Each test comes from a cited rule; bring one chiller’s records and one boiler’s meter readings.
No vendor has been scored against these tests here.
Emissions tracking demo questions · tick the ones you need
The pass tests are our reading of the cited provisions.
Nothing you tick is stored or sent.
For the board
Track Scope 1 where it happens, from the records the law already makes the site keep.
The site’s summary of the F-gas and Scope 1 sections above.
Takeaways
Emissions tracking, in five facts
| Fact | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Scope 1 has four sources | Bills alone miss process and fugitive emissions. |
| The GHG Protocol covers seven gases | Keep quantities and GWPs, not just CO2e. |
| GB F-gas leak checks start at 5 tCO2e | Each check and top-up is data for Scope 1. |
| F-gas records are kept at least five years | A tool can be the record, not a copy. |
| UK ETS reports are due by 31 March | Installations need monitoring-plan data in the same place. |
Frequently asked
Emissions tracking software, answered
What is emissions tracking software?
Software that tracks the greenhouse gases a site releases — fuel burned in boilers and vehicles, refrigerant leaked from cooling equipment and gases from industrial processes — gas by gas, through the year.
How is emissions tracking different from carbon tracking?
Carbon tracking usually starts from bills and gives one CO2e figure.
Emissions tracking starts from the site: each Scope 1 source, each gas, and the operational records behind them, such as F-gas leak checks.
What are the four sources of Scope 1 emissions?
The GHG Protocol names stationary combustion, mobile combustion, process emissions and fugitive emissions, which include equipment leaks such as refrigerant.
Does emissions tracking software need to cover refrigerants?
If you operate cooling equipment, yes.
Refrigerant leaks are fugitive Scope 1 emissions, and in Great Britain operators of equipment holding 5 tonnes CO2e or more of F-gas must have it leak-checked and keep records for at least five years.
How often must refrigeration equipment be leak-checked?
In Great Britain, at least every 12 months from 5 to under 50 tCO2e, every six months from 50 to under 500 tCO2e and every three months from 500 tCO2e; each interval doubles where a leakage detection system is installed.
Which gases should emissions tracking software cover?
The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, as amended in 2013, covers seven gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, HFCs, PFCs, sulphur hexafluoride and nitrogen trifluoride.
What is the best emissions tracking software?
This site has tested no product and names no best.
Test the shortlist on your own sites: one refrigerant top-up, one boiler and one process line, with the demo questions on this page.
Is emissions tracking software the same as UK ETS software?
No. UK ETS is a specific regime for installations and operators, with a verified emissions report by 31 March and allowances surrendered by 30 April.
Some emissions tracking tools support it; the UK ETS software guide covers it in full.
Do F-gas rules apply in Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland follows the EU F-gas regime under the Windsor Framework, not the retained GB text, and the EU has since replaced Regulation 517/2014. This page’s thresholds are the GB ones.
Do listed companies need to track Scope 1 by gas?
UK SRS S2 asks for gross Scope 1 emissions in tonnes of CO2 equivalent, on a comply-or-explain basis for listed companies from 2027.
Tracking by gas is how a tool gets there accurately.
Has this site tested any emissions tracking software?
No. The tests come from the GHG Protocol, the GB F-gas rules and UK ETS guidance, each cited; vendor words are their own.
Sources
Primary sources
Every rule on this page traces to the source listed here; vendor words are each vendor’s own.
- GHG Protocol (WRI, WBCSD)Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, Chapter 6
Stationary, mobile, process and fugitive sources.
- GHG ProtocolRequired gases and GWP values (2013 amendment)
Seven gases, with NF3 added.
- GHG ProtocolGlobal warming potential values (August 2024)
The GWP tables a tool converts gases with.
- legislation.gov.ukRegulation (EU) No 517/2014 (retained, GB), Article 4
Leak checks from 5 tCO2e; every 12, 6 or 3 months by size.
- legislation.gov.ukRegulation (EU) No 517/2014 (retained, GB), Article 6
Records per item of equipment, kept at least five years.
- legislation.gov.ukFluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/310)
The domestic enforcement and certification layer.
- GOV.UK (Defra)Fluorinated gases (F gases)
Government guidance for operators.
- Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2026
Includes refrigerant and process-gas factors.
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero2026 conversion factors methodology paper
Factor year by activity year.
- Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroParticipating in the UK ETS
Verified emissions report by 31 March; surrender by 30 April.
- legislation.gov.ukGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020, article 52
The excess emissions penalty.
- legislation.gov.ukEnvironmental Permitting Regulations 2016, regulation 1
England and Wales only.
- legislation.gov.ukEnvironmental Permitting Regulations 2016, regulation 61
The notice power behind Pollution Inventory returns.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures (PDF)
Scope 1 gross emissions.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityPS26/19
Comply or explain for listed companies from 2027.
- legislation.gov.ukSI 2008/410, Schedule 7 (SECR)
Emissions from gas and fuel combustion.
- ISOISO 14064-1
Direct emissions by category.