Top 10: Carbon Tracking Tools
Sustainability is no longer a peripheral KPI; it is a mandate for market survival. As regulatory frameworks like the CSRD tighten and Scope 3 emissions come under intense scrutiny, the "Green Premium" is being replaced by a "Carbon Penalty" for the unprepared.
To maintain a competitive edge, Chief Procurement Officers are pivoting from manual spreadsheets to sophisticated, AI-driven carbon accounting ecosystems.
This year’s definitive shortlist identifies the top 10 tools redefining environmental transparency, offering the granular data necessary to decarbonise supply chains without compromising operational excellence or bottom-line performance.
10. Greenly
Founded: 2019
CEO: Alexis Normand
Greenly streamlines carbon management through an intuitive platform that automates Scope 1, 2 and 3 analysis.
By converting sustainability data into actionable insights, it enables procurement leaders to complete precise carbon assessments and ensure regulatory compliance. Its standout feature is the supplier decarbonisation toolkit, which provides tailored action plans to reduce value chain emissions while integrating sustainability directly into core operations.
9. IBM Envizi
Founded: 1911
CEO: Arvind Krishna
IBM Envizi excels at eliminating manual spreadsheets, offering a centralised hub to automate GHG performance tracking. Its Target Setting module allows procurement teams to benchmark energy, cost and intensity targets across complex global portfolios.
Utilising PowerBI-embedded reporting, Envizi provides high-level visibility into supply chain projects, ensuring audit-grade accuracy and stakeholder accountability for long-term decarbonisation goals.
8. Plan A
Founded: 2017
CEO: Lubomila Jordanova
Plan A focuses on turning decarbonisation into a competitive advantage by slashing data management time by up to 70%. Its TÜV Rheinland-certified software uses AI to automate complex reporting, enabling procurement teams to generate stakeholder-ready disclosures 20 times faster.
Supported by a world-class Scientific Advisory Board, Plan A excels at aligning supply chain interventions with SBTi standards, ensuring sustainability targets are both measurable and future-proof.
7. Sweep
Founded: 2020
CEO: Rachel Delacour
Sweep utilises AI-driven software to unify carbon tracking and ESG performance into a single, cohesive ecosystem. Designed for global enterprises and financial institutions, it provides a high-fidelity view of extra-financial data across complex value chains.
As a B Corp-certified platform, it excels at navigating evolving disclosure requirements, enabling market leaders like L’Oréal and HP to move beyond simple reporting toward data-backed, actionable sustainability milestones.
6. Pulsora
Founded: 2021
CEO: Murat Sönmez
Pulsora centralises GHG activity data across global subsidiaries and portfolios, replacing data wrangling with automated collection and traceable calculations.
Its flexible platform allows procurement teams to design customised decarbonisation pathways and optimise mitigation measures using PulsoraAI.
With audit-ready trails and unlimited user collaboration, it ensures even the most complex supply chains remain agile, compliant and aligned with science-based targets.
5. Persefoni
Founded: 2020
CEO: Kentaro Kawamori
Persefoni provides an AI-driven platform for precise Scope 1, 2, and 3 disclosures. By aligning with GHGP and PCAF standards, it simplifies complex climate reporting for global enterprises and financial institutions.
Backed by an elite advisory board from SASB and TCFD, Persefoni leverages strategic partnerships with firms like Deloitte and AWS.
This scalable solution democratises emissions control, ensuring the audit-ready transparency and accountability required by modern Fortune 500 organisations.
4. Salesforce
Founded: 1999
CEO: Marc Benioff
Salesforce Net Zero Cloud uses Salesforce’s renowned CRM infrastructure, Net Zero Cloud promises carbon tracking capabilities with enterprise-grade security and scalability.
Net Zero Cloud's supplier engagement functionality, which streamlines the collection of emissions data across complex supply chains through automated questionnaires and data requests.
With Salesforce's robust visualisation tools, users can create compelling sustainability dashboards that communicate progress to both internal and external stakeholders.
3. Microsoft Sustainability Cloud
Founded: 1975
CEO: Satya Nadella
This expansive ecosystem, headlined by Microsoft Sustainability Manager, goes beyond tracking to unify carbon, water and waste data. Now featuring Microsoft Copilot, it allows procurement teams to standardise disparate data from across the value chain into a unified ESG estate.
With specialised tools like Microsoft Fabric for data analytics and CSRD templates, it provides the high-level intelligence needed to turn regulatory compliance into a platform for sustainable growth.
2. Watershed
Founded: 2019
CEO: Christian Anderson
Watershed utilises AI and APIs to halve ESG data collection time, converting complex utility bills and supply chain spreadsheets into audit-ready clarity.
Its platform excels at providing activity-based Scope 3 visibility, allowing procurement leaders to decompose supply chain data and identify specific emission drivers.
With its Data Explorer tool, users can measure data once and instantly repurpose it for over 10 regulatory frameworks, including CSRD and SEC disclosures.
1. EcoVadis
Founded: 2007
CEO: Pierre-François Thaler & Frédéric Trinel
The Carbon Action Manager (CAM) specialises in transforming supply chain data into a measurable ROI.
By segmenting vendors based on carbon maturity, it allows procurement teams to move beyond generic proxies to reliable, supplier-specific primary data.
With carbon scorecards for over 135,000 assessments, CAM identifies hotspots and provides tailored decarbonisation pathways, helping organisations stay ahead of regulations while driving a reported 6x return on sustainability investments.