What it asks
From financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, a board declaration on material controls, extended to narrative and ESG reporting controls.
Provision 29; commercial companies and closed-ended funds categories.Software · ESG management, cited
ESG management software: owners, controls and sign-off
ESG management software runs the process behind the numbers: who owns each metric, which controls apply, who approves, and what the board sees.
In the UK that process is now something listed boards declare on and disclose. This page sets out the rules that make it necessary, then lists 51 vendors in their own words; this site has tested none and ranks none.
What it does
What does ESG management software actually manage?
It manages people and decisions, where reporting software manages figures and pages.
A company can publish an accurate number without a management layer once; it cannot do it every year, across entities and teams, and show a board or an assurer how.
UK SRS S1 ¶27 asks a company to disclose management’s role, including the controls and procedures it uses, in the standard’s governance section.
So the test of a tool is whether it can show, for one published figure, the owner, the controls it passed, the reviewer and the approval.
- 1
Assign
An owner for every metric, target and disclosure, with a deadline.
- 2
Control
The checks each figure passes before it moves on: reconciliations, reviews, limits.
- 3
Review
A named reviewer, with comments and the version reviewed.
- 4
Approve
Sign-off by the person or body accountable, recorded.
- 5
Evidence
The source, the judgement and the estimate behind every number, kept.
UK SRS governance
What does UK SRS ask a company to say about governance?
It asks a company to describe the governance processes, controls and procedures used to monitor, manage and oversee sustainability-related risks and opportunities, under ¶26 of UK SRS S1.
¶27 then lists the specifics: the body or individual responsible, how responsibilities sit in terms of reference, how skills are ensured, how and how often the body is informed, how it oversees targets, and management’s role.
Listed companies in UKLR 6, 14, 15, 16 and 22 report against UK SRS on a comply-or-explain basis for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027, under PS26/19.
A management tool is where those answers are true, not just written down: the committee calendar, the briefing pack and the control log.
Read the risk management limb
¶44 asks for the processes used to identify, assess, prioritise and monitor sustainability-related risks, including the inputs and data sources, whether scenario analysis is used and how the process changed since last period.
It also asks how far those processes are integrated into the entity’s overall risk management, which is why ESG risks often live in the same register as other risks.
The standards in full are on UK SRS S1 and S2.
UK SRS S1 governanceExplore
UK SRS S1 governance
The body responsible
The board, committee or individual overseeing sustainability-related risks and opportunities.
UK SRS S1 governance
Terms of reference
How the responsibility appears in mandates and role descriptions.
UK SRS S1 governance
Skills
How the body decides whether the skills exist or will be developed.
Controls
Does the Corporate Governance Code require ESG controls?
It requires a declaration over them, not a report on ESG.
The FRC says the 2024 Code asks the board to declare the effectiveness of material controls and “extends these controls to include those over reporting, such as narrative and ESG reporting controls”.
Provision 29 applies to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, for companies in the commercial companies and closed-ended investment funds categories.
The same Code deliberately contains no sustainability reporting requirement, so a vendor claiming the Code requires ESG reporting has misread it.
For a listed board, a control log that a tool keeps is the evidence behind the declaration.
2024
Code
Code
What it does not
No sustainability reporting requirement: the FRC left it out to avoid duplicating the Listing Rules and the Companies Act.
The FRC’s own explanation.Your obligations
Which capabilities does your organisation need?
The planner beside this takes the UK obligations you carry and returns the capabilities a platform must show, each tied to the provision that creates the need.
Management capabilities sit across all of them: an owner, a control and an approval for every output on the list.
It never names or ranks a product; take the list into a demonstration and ask for each item on your own data.
Obligations in, capabilities out
A requirements list, not a recommendation: it names no product. Each line is tied to the provision that creates it.
Nothing is stored or sent.
Sign-off
Who is accountable when an ESG figure is wrong?
Strategic report
Board approvalCA 2006 s.414DKnowing approval
An offenceIf it does not comply with the Acts.172(1) statement
In the strategic reportNot for medium-sized companiesESOS
Director sign-offAssessment, action plan and updatesThe directors, through the reports they approve.
The strategic report must be approved by the board and signed on its behalf, and a director who knew it did not comply with the Act, or was reckless about it, and failed to prevent approval commits an offence under section 414D.
The strategic report also carries the section 172(1) statement under s.414CZA, describing how directors had regard to matters including the impact of operations on the community and the environment under s.172(1)(d).
SECR content sits in the directors’ report under Schedule 7, and the ESOS assessment is signed off by directors, so the approval trail a tool keeps maps onto real legal sign-offs.
Judgements and estimates
How should judgements and estimates be recorded?
As decisions with an owner, a date and a reason, because UK SRS asks for them to be explained.
UK SRS S1 ¶74 asks for the judgements with the most significant effect on the disclosures, and ¶¶77–78 for the amounts subject to high measurement uncertainty, with their sources and assumptions, in the standard.
¶79 is reassuring: reasonable estimates are an essential part of preparation and do not undermine usefulness if they are accurately described and explained.
¶83 asks for material prior-period errors to be corrected by restating comparatives, which a tool can do only if it kept the original.
How to measure the share of a metric that is estimated is on sustainability analytics software.
What S1 asks you to explainExplore
What S1 asks you to explain
Judgements
The ones with the most significant effect, such as what is material.
What S1 asks you to explain
Uncertainty
Amounts with high measurement uncertainty, their sources and assumptions.
What S1 asks you to explain
Errors
Material prior-period errors corrected by restating comparatives.
Assurance
Will an assurer want to see the management trail?
If you choose assurance, yes, and the trail is most of what they test.
The FRC issued ISSA (UK) 5000 for voluntary use, effective for periods beginning on or after 15 December 2026; no UK law requires sustainability assurance.
The government’s response sets up a voluntary oversight regime for assurance providers, with an interim register intended to be operational ahead of the 2027 reporting year.
An assurer will ask who prepared a figure, which controls it passed, who reviewed it and what evidence supports it, which is the management layer by another name.
The assurance tooling is covered on sustainability assurance software.
The vendors
Which vendors offer ESG management software?
51 vendors this site files under ESG reporting or EHS, alphabetically, which ranks nothing, each in its own words and linked to its own site.
The registry covers 73 vendors across all categories, read 11 October 2026 and 30 September–1 October 2026.
51 vendors · esg reporting, 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”
“AI workflows that extract answers from your documents with full source references”
“We support financial institutions, companies, governments, and consumers in making the right decisions - efficiently, confidently, and at scale”
“Measure, reduce, and report your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions”
“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”
“Datamaran’s AI platform empowers business leaders to confidently navigate the complex ESG landscape by transforming vast amounts of information into actionable insights”
“Dcycle is an ESG software platform founded in 2020 that helps companies collect, manage, and govern sustainability and non-financial data”
“Deepki centralizes your sustainability data, strategy and operations in one place so you can act on carbon, climate risk, and finance”
Diginex describes carbon accounting, sustainability reporting, supply chain, human rights monitoring and ESG investor intelligence for asset managers, banks and companies.
EcoOnline sells software to manage EHS and compliance.
“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”
Greenomy offered ESG reporting software for “compliance with key frameworks, including CSRD, EU Taxonomy, and VSME”, in Position Green’s words.
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”
IntegrityNext describes itself as a “supply chain sustainability intelligence & orchestration platform”.
“Bring safety, environment, and quality workflows into one connected platform”
IsoMetrix sells software to “manage their environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and social risks”.
“Manglai is a platform to manage all of your environmental impact”
“Measurabl makes subjective sustainability data objective”
“One home for your ESG data, mapped to every framework and rating”
“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”
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”
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”
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”
SINAI describes “audit-grade Scope 1–3 accounting, automated compliance reporting, complete supply chain visibility” and decarbonisation planning for global enterprises.
“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”
“Workiva Carbon is an end-to-end carbon accounting software solution that enables organizations to measure, manage, collaborate on, and report emissions data”
“Worldfavor is a supply chain due diligence platform founded in Stockholm in 2016”
“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.
Each vendor’s own words are linked from its profile; ask each to show its workflow, approvals and audit trail on one of your own metrics.
51 vendors, own wordsExplore
51 vendors, own words
ESG reporting and EHS
51 vendors in these categories.
51 vendors, own words
Alphabetical
The order ranks nothing.
51 vendors, own words
Their own words
What each vendor says about itself, read 11 October 2026 and 30 September–1 October 2026.
51 vendors, own words
Ask to see
Owner, control, reviewer and approval behind one published figure.
An order of work
Where should an ESG team start?
- 01 / Inventory01
List every published figure
Each metric, target and statement you publish, with its regime. - 02 / Owners02
- 03 / Controls03
- 04 / Judgements04
- 05 / Sign-off05
This site has tested no products
Nothing on this page is a rating, ranking or recommendation of any product.
In short
What should a board take from this?
A board can only declare on ESG controls that someone has written down and kept.
| What is true | What it means for a tool |
|---|---|
| UK SRS S1 asks for governance, controls and management’s role. | Owners, committees and controls held as records, not slides. |
| Provision 29 covers ESG reporting controls from 2026 financial years. | A control log a listed board can rely on. |
| The strategic report is approved by the board, and knowing approval of a non-compliant one is an offence. | An approval trail per report. |
| Estimates are acceptable if explained. | Judgements and estimates recorded with reasons. |
| Assurance is voluntary. | Evidence ready if you choose it. |
Next, test what a platform must output for each duty on ESG compliance software.
Frequently asked
ESG management software, answered
What is ESG management software?
Software for the governance and workflow side of ESG: who owns each metric, which controls apply, who reviews and approves, what the board sees and what evidence sits behind each figure.
Most ESG platforms combine it with data collection and reporting; this page is about the management layer.
How is ESG management software different from ESG reporting software?
Reporting software produces the disclosure; management software runs the process that makes the disclosure safe to sign — owners, deadlines, reviews, controls and sign-off.
Many products do both, and the demonstration should test both.
What governance does UK SRS ask companies to disclose?
UK SRS S1 ¶¶26–27 asks which body or individual oversees sustainability-related risks and opportunities, how that is reflected in terms of reference and role descriptions, how skills are ensured, how and how often the body is informed, how it oversees targets, and management’s role, including the controls and procedures used.
Is UK SRS mandatory?
Not as such.
Listed companies in UKLR 6, 14, 15, 16 and 22 report against UK SRS on a comply-or-explain basis for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027, under FCA PS26/19.
For everyone else it is voluntary.
Does the UK Corporate Governance Code require ESG reporting?
No. The FRC deliberately left a sustainability reporting requirement out of the 2024 Code.
Its only ESG hook is Provision 29: from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, the board’s declaration on the effectiveness of material controls extends to reporting controls, including narrative and ESG reporting controls.
Who signs off ESG disclosures?
The board, in most cases.
The strategic report must be approved by the board and signed on its behalf (CA 2006 s.414D), and a director who knowingly or recklessly approves a non-compliant one commits an offence.
SECR content sits in the directors’ report, and ESOS submissions are signed off by directors.
What is a section 172 statement?
A statement in the strategic report describing how the directors have had regard to the matters in s.172(1), which include the impact of the company’s operations on the community and the environment (CA 2006 s.414CZA).
Medium-sized companies are exempt.
Do estimates have to be avoided?
No. UK SRS S1 ¶79 says reasonable estimates are an essential part of preparing sustainability-related disclosures and do not undermine their usefulness if accurately described. ¶78 asks the entity to identify amounts with high measurement uncertainty and explain the sources and assumptions.
Is ESG assurance required in the UK?
No UK law requires it.
The FRC issued ISSA (UK) 5000 for voluntary use, effective for periods beginning on or after 15 December 2026, and the government is setting up a voluntary oversight regime for assurance providers.
How often should materiality be reassessed?
At each reporting date, under UK SRS S1 ¶B28.
A management tool should keep the record of each year’s assessment, not overwrite it.
Which ESG management software is best?
This site has tested no products and names no best.
The vendors below are listed alphabetically in their own words.
Choose by whether a product can show the owner, control, reviewer and evidence behind one figure you will publish.
Has this site tested any ESG management software?
No. This page is built from UK SRS S1, the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Companies Act and the assurance standard, each cited to its source, and the vendor list quotes only what each vendor says about itself.
Sources
Primary sources
Every rule on this page traces to the provision listed here.
Vendor descriptions are cited on each vendor’s profile to the vendor’s own page.
Checked against 17 sources fromDepartment for Business and TradeFinancial Conduct AuthorityFinancial Reporting Councillegislation.gov.ukGHG Protocol (WRI, WBCSD)
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S1 General Requirements, ¶¶26–27
Governance: the body responsible, how it is informed, and management’s role and controls.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S1, ¶¶43–44
Risk management processes, inputs and data sources.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S1, ¶¶45–51
Metrics, entity-developed metrics and targets.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S1, ¶¶74–85
Judgements, measurement uncertainty and errors.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S1 and S2 publication page
Published 25 February 2026.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityPS26/19
Comply or explain for UKLR 6, 14, 15, 16 and 22, periods from 1 January 2027.
- Financial Reporting CouncilUK Corporate Governance Code 2024
Provision 29 extends the controls declaration to narrative and ESG reporting controls.
- legislation.gov.ukCompanies Act 2006, section 172
Directors’ duty, including the impact on the community and the environment.
- legislation.gov.ukCompanies Act 2006, section 414CZA
The section 172(1) statement in the strategic report.
- legislation.gov.ukCompanies Act 2006, section 414D
Board approval of the strategic report, and the offence for knowingly approving a non-compliant one.
- Financial Reporting CouncilISSA (UK) 5000 (PDF)
Issued for voluntary use; effective for periods from 15 December 2026.
- Financial Reporting CouncilFRC steps to support assurance of sustainability reporting
The assurance standard’s status.
- Department for Business and TradeAssurance of sustainability reporting: government response
A voluntary oversight regime for assurance providers.
- legislation.gov.ukSI 2008/410, Schedule 7
SECR content in the directors’ report.
- legislation.gov.ukESOS Regulations 2014
Director sign-off of the ESOS assessment.
- Financial Reporting CouncilSustainability reporting developments FAQ
The FRC’s position on sustainability reporting.
- GHG Protocol (WRI, WBCSD)Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard
Transparency and an audit trail.