ESG & Sustainability Reporting
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CSRD & ESRS ready · Scope 1, 2 & 3 · EU Taxonomy · Audit-ready data
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ESG & Sustainability Performance Management
Optimized data collection. Simplified reporting. Smarter ESG planning. Greater transparency.
From planning and reporting to reputation, ESG and sustainability now touches every part of the business. With the right tools, CFOs can move beyond compliance to lead ESG efforts that drive value and build trust. Inulta helps connect sustainability to financial results by integrating ESG metrics into core planning, enabling real-time insights, faster reporting, and proactive risk management.
Why ESG Reporting Now Belongs to Finance
For years, sustainability reporting lived outside the finance function: a separate team, a separate report, a separate set of numbers that nobody audited. CSRD ended that arrangement.
Under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, sustainability information is prepared according to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, subject to external assurance, and published inside the annual report alongside the financial statements. The data has to be traceable, validated and defensible in the same way financial data is. The sustainability statement is then produced alongside the financials in the annual report – see disclosure management.
That is a finance problem. And it arrives at a scale most organizations underestimate: hundreds of data points, collected from operations, HR, procurement, facilities and the supply chain – none of which were previously maintained to audit standard.
ESG reporting software exists to close that gap: governed collection workflows, validation rules, audit trails, and a direct connection between sustainability data and the financial reporting it now sits beside.
New to the subject? Start with our guide: What is ESG? →
What CCH Tagetik ESG Reporting Delivers
ESG reporting fails in the same place for almost every organization: not in the report, but in the data behind it. CCH Tagetik addresses the full chain – from collecting a number in a subsidiary to defending it in front of an auditor.
CSRD and ESRS compliance
Pre-built content aligned with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards covers the disclosure requirements across environmental (ESRS E1-E5), social (ESRS S1-S4) and governance (ESRS G1) topics, plus the cross-cutting standards. Disclosures are produced from collected data, not assembled manually – with the audit trail that external assurance requires.
Double materiality assessment (DMA) and IRO
The double materiality assessment determines which ESRS topics a company must report on, from two directions: impact materiality (how the business affects people and the environment) and financial materiality (how sustainability factors affect the business). CCH Tagetik supports the assessment as a structured, repeatable process – including the identification and scoring of impacts, risks and opportunities (IRO), stakeholder input, and the documentation of the methodology, which is itself a disclosure requirement.
GHG emissions – Scope 1, 2 and 3
Greenhouse gas accounting across all three scopes: direct emissions from owned sources (Scope 1), indirect emissions from purchased energy (Scope 2), and value chain emissions (Scope 3) – the largest and most difficult category for most organizations. Emission factors, conversion logic and calculation methodologies are maintained centrally, so results are consistent across entities and comparable year over year.
EU Taxonomy alignment
Classification of economic activities against the EU Taxonomy Regulation, with the eligibility and alignment assessments, technical screening criteria, do-no-significant-harm checks, and the turnover, CapEx and OpEx KPIs required for disclosure.
ESG data collection and normalization
ESG data arrives in every format and unit imaginable, from systems that were never designed to feed a financial report: utility invoices, HR systems, fleet management, supplier questionnaires. CCH Tagetik collects, converts and normalizes this data through governed workflows with validation at the point of entry – the same discipline finance teams already apply to financial data.
Reporting Standards Supported
CCH Tagetik supports reporting under the frameworks that European organizations are required or choose to report against – with regulatory content maintained centrally as standards evolve.
- ESRS – European Sustainability Reporting Standards, mandatory under CSRD
- GRI – Global Reporting Initiative, the most widely used voluntary framework globally
- SASB – Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, industry-specific metrics
- IFRS S1 and S2 – ISSB sustainability and climate disclosure standards
- SBTi – Science Based Targets initiative, for emissions reduction target setting
- EU Taxonomy – classification of environmentally sustainable economic activities
- TCFD – climate-related financial disclosures, incorporated into ESRS E1
Alongside the frameworks, the platform delivers auditor traceability from disclosure back to source data, AI-supported narrative reporting, ESG planning and target tracking, and regulatory content maintained centrally as standards evolve.
Go-live timeline of 15 weeks
Having one unified reporting environment across Finance, FP&A, Tax, Consolidation and ESG, gave us a single source of truth across the Group. We no longer need reconciliations, we have greater granularity, and automation enables us to deliver reports to Top Management earlier.”
Lucie Prochnow, Group EPM Director at Pernod Ricard
Choosing an ESG reporting platform is a decision you live with for the next 5 – 10 years
Workiva, Position Green, SAP Sustainability, Salesforce Net Zero Cloud, CCH Tagetik – on a demo, they all produce a sustainability report. The real differences appear in the data layer: how ESG numbers are collected and validated, whether they connect to your financial data for the double materiality assessment, and what an auditor sees when they trace a disclosure back to its source.
Platform Selection
ESG Process Design
Project Management
Data Integration
Before you commit to a platform, you should know exactly how it will handle your ESG data – and your auditor’s questions about it. We help you find out – with proof, not promises.
ESG Reporting Implementation – Live with Inulta
ESG reporting implementations differ from financial ones in a specific way: most of the data does not exist yet in a usable form. The work is not configuring a report – it is designing how a number gets from a facility manager’s spreadsheet into an audited disclosure, repeatably, every year.
Inulta – CCH Tagetik Platinum Implementation Partner and Best EPM Implementation Partner 2026 – delivers ESG reporting as part of finance transformation programs, with consultants who understand both the ESRS requirements and the data governance that assurance demands. We work alongside your sustainability team and external advisors, building the platform and the data foundation their work depends on.
ESG Reporting Across Industries
Banking
financed emissions across loan and investment portfolios, EU Taxonomy alignment, SFDR
Insurance
underwriting and investment emissions alongside Solvency II and IFRS 17 reporting
Energy &
Utilities
Scope 1 and 3 emissions, transition planning, EU Taxonomy for energy activities
Manufacturing
supply chain emissions, resource use and circular economy disclosures
Retail
value chain emissions across large supplier networks and store portfolios
Healthcare &
Pharma
product stewardship, supply chain integrity and manufacturing footprint
Frequently Asked Questions
What is ESG reporting?
ESG reporting is the disclosure of an organization’s environmental, social and governance performance – emissions, resource use, workforce conditions, supply chain practices and governance structures – following a defined reporting framework. In the EU, ESG reporting for large companies is mandatory under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), prepared according to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and subject to external assurance.
What is ESG reporting software?
ESG reporting software collects, validates and consolidates sustainability data across an organization, then produces the disclosures required by frameworks such as ESRS, GRI or IFRS S1/S2. It replaces spreadsheet and email-based data gathering with governed workflows, validation rules and audit trails – the level of control that external assurance requires and that manual processes cannot provide at scale.
What is the difference between CSRD and ESRS?
CSRD is the EU directive that creates the legal obligation to report. ESRS are the standards that define what must be disclosed and how. A company in scope of CSRD prepares its sustainability statement according to ESRS, has it assured by an auditor, and publishes it within the annual report.
What is a double materiality assessment?
A double materiality assessment determines which sustainability topics a company must report on, evaluated from two perspectives: impact materiality – how the company’s activities affect people and the environment – and financial materiality – how sustainability matters affect the company’s financial position and performance. A topic is material if it is significant from either perspective. The assessment must be repeated periodically and the methodology itself disclosed.
What are Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?
Scope 1 covers direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources the company owns or controls. Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from purchased electricity, heat or steam. Scope 3 covers all other indirect emissions across the value chain, both upstream (suppliers, purchased goods, business travel) and downstream (use of sold products, end-of-life treatment). Scope 3 is typically the largest and hardest category to measure.
What is the EU Taxonomy?
The EU Taxonomy is a classification system defining which economic activities qualify as environmentally sustainable. Companies in scope disclose the proportion of turnover, capital expenditure and operating expenditure associated with Taxonomy-eligible and Taxonomy-aligned activities, based on technical screening criteria and do-no-significant-harm assessments.
Which reporting standards does CCH Tagetik support?
CCH Tagetik supports ESRS (mandatory under CSRD), GRI, SASB, IFRS S1 and S2 from the ISSB, SBTi target frameworks, EU Taxonomy classification and TCFD-aligned climate disclosures – with regulatory content maintained centrally as standards evolve.
Is ESG reporting the same as an ESG score or rating?
No. ESG reporting is what a company discloses about its own sustainability performance, following a defined framework. An ESG score or rating is an external assessment produced by an agency – such as MSCI, Sustainalytics or CDP – which evaluates a company based on public disclosures and its own methodology. Better reporting can improve a rating, but the rating itself is not something a company produces.
Can ESG data be managed in the same platform as financial data?
Yes – and under CSRD this is increasingly the practical approach. Because sustainability disclosures are published within the annual report and subject to assurance, they need the same governance, validation and audit trail as financial data. Platforms like CCH Tagetik that handle consolidation, disclosure management and ESG reporting on one data model remove the reconciliation work between financial and sustainability reporting.
How long does an ESG reporting implementation take?
A focused CSRD/ESRS implementation typically takes 14-20 weeks with an experienced partner, depending on the outcome of the double materiality assessment, the number of entities and how much of the required data already exists in a usable form. Organizations starting without established ESG data collection should plan for the first reporting cycle to run in parallel with the existing process.
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