Without a library
Each request starts from email and spreadsheets.
Figures drift between answers.Software · for companies being rated
ESG rating software: EcoVadis, CDP and questionnaires from one library
ESG rating software helps a company that is being rated answer EcoVadis, CDP and customer and investor questionnaires from one library of policies, figures and evidence.
This page sets out who rates you, how long a result lasts and what the software should do, and quotes 24 platforms in their own words.
Who rates you
Who is rating your company, and on what?
Most UK companies are rated because a customer or an investor asks, not because a law does.
EcoVadis scores four themes — environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement — across 21 criteria on a 0 to 100 scale, according to its methodology.
CDP runs one disclosure cycle a year, set out on its Disclosure 2026 page, and customers use its supply chain programme to ask their suppliers to respond.
Three kinds of raterExplore
Your year
When does each rating lapse, and how many requests will you answer?
An EcoVadis scorecard is valid for 12 months from publication, per EcoVadis, so the reassessment needs to start before it lapses.
The calculator beside this takes your scorecard date and how many questionnaires you answer, and counts the year’s requests.
The number matters because each request asks for much the same evidence, which is the case for answering them from one library.
Being rated · your year of requests
EcoVadis scorecard lapses on 15 March 2027 — 143 days from today.
Requests to answer this year: 10
Each one asks for much the same core evidence — policies, energy and emissions, people and supplier data — so software that keeps one evidence library answers all 10 from the same records.
EcoVadis: scorecards valid for 12 months. CDP: one annual cycle. Your request counts are your own. Nothing is stored or sent.
What it does
What should ESG rating software do for a rated company?
Its first job is the evidence library: policies, figures and certificates, each dated and owned.
Its second is mapping that library to each rater’s structure, so one emissions figure answers EcoVadis, CDP and a customer the same way.
Its third is the calendar — what is due, what lapses, who owns it — and its fourth is an archive of everything submitted.
A new
request
request
With a library
Each answer is drawn from one record, linked to its evidence.
Ratings and reports agree.The rules
Are ESG ratings regulated, and does that change anything for you?
- 15 December 202501
- 2 July 202602
- 29 June 202803
The rules fall on the providers, not on the companies they rate; no UK law requires a company to obtain a rating.
Read the investor’s side of ratings
Tools that rate, screen and analyse other companies, and the detail of the coming regime, are on ESG risk software.
Ratings and the lawExplore
In the demo
What should a rating-management platform show you?
Give it one policy and one figure, and ask for three answers.
Each question beside this comes from a rater’s own published method or a UK rule, with what a passing answer looks like.
ESG rating demo questions · tick the ones you need
The pass tests are our reading of the cited provisions.
Nothing you tick is stored or sent.
Platforms
Which platforms say they help with ratings and questionnaires?
From this site’s registry, read 11 October 2026 and 30 September–1 October 2026: each platform whose own pages mention CDP, EcoVadis, questionnaires or ESG ratings, alphabetically and in its own words.
Order of work
What should a rated company do first?
- 1
List every rater and request
Who asks, what, and when.
- 2
Build the library
Policies, figures and certificates, dated.
- 3
Align with the annual report
One figure per year, everywhere.
- 4
Diary the lapses
EcoVadis 12 months; CDP once a year.
In one sentence
The whole page, said once
Every rater asks the same questions differently, so we answer them all from one record.
Takeaways
Five facts, then the next step
| Fact | Source |
|---|---|
| An EcoVadis scorecard is valid for 12 months. | EcoVadis |
| EcoVadis scores 0 to 100 on four themes and 21 criteria. | EcoVadis methodology |
| CDP runs one disclosure cycle a year. | CDP |
| UK ESG ratings become regulated on 29 June 2028. | SI 2025/1349 |
| No UK law requires a company to be rated. | No UK instrument |
Where to go nextExplore
Frequently asked
ESG rating software, answered
What is ESG rating software?
For a company being rated, software that manages its submissions to raters and questionnaires — EcoVadis, CDP, customer and investor requests — from one library of policies, figures and evidence.
For investors, “ESG rating software” can also mean tools that rate other companies; that side is covered on the ESG risk software page.
Who rates a UK company on ESG?
Commonly EcoVadis, on behalf of customers; CDP, through its annual disclosure cycle and its supply chain programme; and investors and lenders through their own questionnaires and data providers.
How long does an EcoVadis rating last?
A scorecard is valid for 12 months from publication, according to EcoVadis.
How does EcoVadis score a company?
On four themes — environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement — across 21 criteria, on a scale of 0 to 100, according to its own methodology.
Do we have to pay to be rated?
EcoVadis says the rated company pays for its plan and that fees are never contingent on the result.
Check the current terms before you commit.
How often does CDP run?
CDP runs one disclosure cycle a year; its Disclosure 2026 and Disclosure 2027 pages set out the dates.
Are ESG ratings regulated in the UK?
Not yet.
SI 2025/1349 makes providing in-scope ESG ratings a regulated activity from 29 June 2028; whether supplier ratings of the kind EcoVadis provides fall in scope is unsettled.
The FCA’s CP25/34 rules were proposals, and final rules had not been found as at 23 October 2026.
Are EU ESG ratings regulated?
Yes.
Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 applies from 2 July 2026, with a transitional notification under Article 51; EcoVadis is on ESMA’s list of notified firms.
Is any ESG rating a legal requirement in the UK?
No UK law requires a company to obtain one.
Customers and investors may make them a condition of business.
Why should ratings and the annual report agree?
Because from 2027 listed companies report against UK SRS on a comply-or-explain basis, and raters will read those disclosures; two different figures for the same year invite questions.
Which platforms help with EcoVadis, CDP and questionnaires?
The table on this page quotes, alphabetically, the platforms in this site’s registry whose own pages mention CDP, EcoVadis, questionnaires or ESG ratings. This site ranks none and has tested none.
Sources
Primary sources
Every figure, date and status on this page traces to the instrument’s owner.
Secondary commentary is never the source for a number.
Checked against 17 sources fromEcoVadisCDPlegislation.gov.ukHM TreasuryFinancial Conduct AuthorityEUR-Lex
- EcoVadisSustainability Rating methodology disclosure (September 2026)
Four themes, 21 criteria, 0–100; the rated company’s own provider describing itself.
- EcoVadisMedals methodology disclosure (September 2026)
How medals and badges are awarded.
- EcoVadisMedals and badges
Validity and recognition.
- EcoVadisRated company terms and conditions
Who pays; fees not contingent on the result.
- EcoVadisTrust centre: ESMA
Notification under the EU ratings regulation.
- CDPCDP scores
How CDP scores disclosures.
- CDPDisclosure 2026
This year’s cycle.
- CDPDisclosure 2027
Next year’s cycle.
- CDPSupply Chain programme
Customers asking suppliers to disclose.
- CDPAccredited Solutions Providers
Software and consultancy partners CDP lists.
- legislation.gov.ukFSMA 2000 (Regulated Activities) (ESG Ratings) Order 2025 (SI 2025/1349)
Regulated activity from 29 June 2028.
- HM TreasuryExplanatory Memorandum to SI 2025/1349
Including uses such as supply chain management.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityCP25/34: ESG ratings — proposed approach
Proposals; final rules not found as at 23 October 2026.
- EUR-LexRegulation (EU) 2024/3005 on ESG rating activities
Applies from 2 July 2026; Art 51 transitional notification.
- ESMAFirms notified under Article 51
Notified, not yet authorised.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityPS26/19 — UK SRS reporting by listed companies
The disclosures raters will read from 2027.
- Department for Business and TradeUK SRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures (PDF)
Climate data in the annual report.