Best ESG Reporting Software (2026): Top 10 Compared

Workiva is a reporting platform used for financial statements, regulatory filings, risk and sustainability disclosure. Its ESG product applies the same controlled environment to sustainability data: data is collected into the platform, validated at the source and linked into the report so that a change in one place updates every document that uses the figure.

The ESG Explorer holds pre-built frameworks and standards, including SASB, GRI, TCFD and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Workiva offers a materiality assessment template for teams deciding which topics to report. Planning, materiality work and disclosure drafting all sit in the same workspace.

Every plan includes the Workiva AI companion with a prompt library, in-app comments and version control, more than 70 connectors to systems such as Oracle, Salesforce and Workday, open APIs and 24/7 phone support. Buyers already using Workiva for SEC or annual reporting can extend the same licence and review process to ESG, which is the main reason finance-led teams shortlist it.

Diligent is best known for board management software, and Diligent ESG extends its governance platform into sustainability data and disclosure. The product collects data through workflows, surveys and imports, calculates Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions using more than 70,000 emissions factors that Diligent keeps current, and maps data to SASB, GRI, TCFD, CDP and WEF metrics as well as an internal framework.

CSRD reporting runs in two parts. Instant reports produce the quantitative tables for a chosen disclosure requirement and reporting year, filtered by scope or data stream. The Diligent ESG Author tool builds the qualitative corporate report, organised by ESRS sections such as ESRS 2. Diligent also generates the tables needed for the CDP climate questionnaire.

For boards, Diligent presents ESG data in storyboards for directors. Buyers already using Diligent for board portals or risk should ask how ESG data connects to those modules and which CSRD features require the extra module.

Persefoni is a carbon accounting and climate disclosure platform. Its pricing page describes two products. Persefoni Pro is a free, self-service tier for companies that need a Scope 1, 2 and 3 footprint to answer supply chain requests such as CDP and EcoVadis. It includes guided workflows and a Sustainability Report Builder that combines narrative answers with emissions data.

Persefoni Advanced is aimed at enterprise sustainability programmes. It adds market-based accounting for renewable energy, more granular emission factors, proprietary and custom factors, APIs and an integration hub, reduction modelling and unlimited collaboration seats. Persefoni states that the platform is SOC 2 compliant.

Framework-ready outputs are sold as GHG Metrics Reports: a methodology report and metrics reports for CDP, UK SECR, California's climate disclosure laws, ISSB and CSRD. Buyers should price these add-ons early, since they are where the free tier stops.

Sphera sells environment, health, safety and sustainability software and states that more than 2,800 customers have used its products over 30 years. Its Corporate Sustainability suite covers data collection, performance management and disclosure, with modules for management and reporting, sustainability performance management, environmental impact calculation and financed emissions for investment and lending portfolios.

Two content modules set Sphera apart. Managed Disclosure Content supplies prepared reporting content to shorten report writing, and Managed LCA Content provides verified emission factors from Sphera's life cycle assessment database, which the platform uses for industry-specific Scope 3 calculations.

Data collection templates and standard setups based on materiality reduce manual configuration, and the software identifies gaps between targets and performance. Buyers who also run product LCAs or environmental product declarations can keep corporate and product data with one vendor.

Enablon is the EHS, risk and ESG software line of Wolters Kluwer. Enablon ESG Excellence collects and validates ESG data from more than 100 enterprise applications, normalises it into standardised indicators and calculates framework-aligned KPIs that update when source data changes.

Reporting and disclosure are powered by CCH Tagetik, the Wolters Kluwer corporate performance management product used by finance teams. This lets sustainability and finance staff work in one process, combining narrative with numbers and conforming to IFRS, TCFD, GRI, CDP and CSRD. Wolters Kluwer cites a leader placement in the 2025 Verdantix Green Quadrant for ESG and sustainability reporting software.

The platform also runs materiality assessments, net zero programme management for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and climate risk work. Companies already running Enablon for health, safety or environmental compliance can reuse that operational data for disclosure.

Novisto is a Montreal-based sustainability management platform. It states that clients manage more than 700 metrics on average and cites a 50 percent average efficiency gain in submitting disclosures.

Its CSRD product covers an EFRAG-aligned double materiality assessment, a contributor portal for collecting ESRS datapoints with reminders, Scope 1 to 3 emissions calculation, cross-referencing between ESRS, GRI and IFRS, role-based approvals and an audit trail. Novisto automates XBRL tag mapping for electronic filing and also supports the EU Taxonomy and SFDR.

Novisto is a SASB licensee with standards for 77 industries, a GRI-licensed solution and an official IFRS Foundation software partner supporting IFRS S1 and S2. A Microsoft add-on embeds auto-updating metrics in annual reports, and peer benchmarking helps set targets. Customers quoted include Balchem and PagerDuty, the latter for the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment.

Watershed describes itself as a sustainability AI platform organised around measuring, reporting and acting. Measurement draws on a library of 2.3 million emission factors, benchmarks and methodologies, and covers carbon, water and land use, with each figure traceable to its calculation.

For CSRD, Watershed maps a company's materiality assessment to ESRS requirements, calculates ESRS metrics once data is loaded and runs more than 150 automated checks to flag errors. AI drafts qualitative responses from company data, regulatory guidance and peer examples, with sources shown. The same data maps to CDP, TCFD and ISSB, and Watershed integrates with Workiva for XBRL tagging.

Beyond reporting, Watershed supports supplier decarbonisation, product-level forecasting and purchases of vetted clean power projects. It cites leader placements in the 2026 Forrester Wave for sustainability management software and Verdantix Green Quadrant reports.

Sweep is a sustainability platform for carbon and ESG data. Its CSRD module includes a pre-configured library of ESRS indicators, a sector-based double materiality assessment, questionnaires for data collection, gap analysis and an AI-assisted report generator. Reviewers can accept or reject a whole survey or a single response, with comments and supporting documents attached.

The final step compiles material indicators in the required format and tags them for the European Single Access Point. Sweep states that the platform updates as standards change and shows, for each datapoint, what the simplified ESRS alter. Data entered once maps to CDP, GRI, ISSB, the EU Taxonomy and SBTi-aligned targets.

Sweep publishes case studies with SSE, Swisscom and MV Credit, and offers a free CSRD Materiality Builder that exports a double materiality matrix.

Position Green is a European ESG software company that states it serves more than 1,000 companies. Its CSRD product runs from a double materiality assessment through ESRS templates and data collection to the Statement Studio, which consolidates inputs into an exportable sustainability statement. The platform covers both the original and revised ESRS, VSME for smaller companies, the EU Taxonomy and SFDR.

AutoReporting, documented in its help centre, drafts suggested answers for ESRS or VSME datapoints from uploaded documents. Suggestions carry references to the source files and never overwrite reported data; controllers start the process and other users review the drafts.

Carbon accounting, supply chain assessments and data connectors for Fortnox and Microsoft Dynamics 365 sit in the same platform. Buyers should ask which modules are included in a CSRD quote.

IBM Envizi is an ESG data management and reporting suite. Its emissions engine follows the GHG Protocol for Scope 1 and 2, uses AI to speed Scope 3 calculations and offers a financed emissions module for investment portfolios. Supply Chain Intelligence collects supplier data for Scope 3 categories 1 and 2.

Reporting modules cover multiple ESG frameworks, internal surveys, building ratings and benchmarks, and programme management for sustainability initiatives. Utility bill analytics and interval meter analytics consolidate energy and water data from facilities, and Planning Analytics models reduction targets alongside financial plans. An Emissions API and an Excel add-in expose the calculation engine to other tools.

Envizi is one of the few vendors here that explains its pricing structure publicly. The Account count reflects activity data, supplier data and KPIs by location, and IBM cites GPT Group saving 20 million US dollars a year on energy and water costs.