At KEY ESG, we’re excited to be at the forefront of ESG management software. Our software simplifies and automates the entire ESG data collection and reporting process, ensuring that global organisations can spend less time on reporting and more time on driving improvement strategies.
With cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, we help ESG teams efficiently track, analyse, and report their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, ensuring compliance and enhancing transparency.
This guide explores the importance of using AI to enhance ESG processes and how KEY ESG leverages AI for streamlined ESG data collection, reporting, compliance and management.
The importance of using AI to enhance ESG reporting
ESG reporting is essential for demonstrating transparency, managing risk, and building stakeholder trust. It helps organisations measure and communicate their environmental, social, and governance performance, aligning operations with global sustainability standards and investor expectations. By embedding ESG into strategy, companies can drive long-term value and meet evolving regulatory requirements.
In order to enable businesses to fulfil their reporting obligations and have thecapacity to drive strategic sustainability improvements, it is essential to use AI to streamline the manual processes.
Our platform leverages AI to enhance ESG reporting processes through several key features:
- AI-assisted data collection: Our AI-assisted data collection integrates with your existing systems. It draws and checks data from many sources to ensure accuracy and reliability for ESG reporting.
- AI-driven support and training: Our in-app support and training chatbot is constantly on-hand to give instant answers to your ESG-related questions. Our customers never have to wait for support, they get instant guidance from highly-trained support models and always have access to a telephone number to speak to a human expert if preferred. AI-driven reporting and data analysis: Our platform uses advanced AI analytics to make accurate ESG reports. It offers actionable insights and finds trends to improve your ESG performance. Generative AI is a powerful tool for ESG, streamlining reporting and analysis to drive better outcomes.
These AI-driven tools benefit finance professionals, compliance and risk teams, and sustainability leaders. KEY ESG promotes cross-functional collaboration on sustainability.
KEY ESG features for streamlining data collection and reporting
The KEY ESG platform is designed to support comprehensive sustainability management, helping you improve your sustainability performance and meet regulatory requirements.
Here’s an overview of our platform’s powerful AI-driven features for ESG professionals.
AI-assisted data collection
Gone are the days of tedious manual data entry and human errors. Our platform effortlessly finds and gathers ESG metrics that ensure your data is accurate, current, and tailored to your needs.
How it works is simple:
- Our platform links to your systems, collecting data from financial, supply chain, and environmental sources. This thorough process captures all necessary information.
- Next, our AI reviews and verifies the accuracy and completeness of ESG data, including unstructured data sources such as documents and datasets, ensuring reliable data management for ESG reporting. It spots errors and ensures accuracy. It also drafts responses based on your ESG policies. You can then review, edit, and publish these responses.
This feature is invaluable for CSRD reporting, where most data is textual - it saves a lot of time.
The platform can analyse all business ESG policies to generate actionable insights, helping you identify risks and improve reporting accuracy.
It also supports research activities by enabling comprehensive data collection and analysis for ESG reporting, enhancing the credibility of your disclosures. Robust data protection measures are also incorporated to address ESG risks associated with AI, ensuring your information is secure.
Additionally, the platform is designed to ensure data privacy and compliance with relevant regulations during ESG data collection and reporting.
With AI managing data, you can focus on strategic decisions, knowing your ESG data is handled.
Customisable metric library using AI analysis
KEY ESG’s platform features an extensive and customisable metric library with over 1,000 data points designed explicitly for sustainability data and ESRS. This library aligns with major regulatory frameworks, such as the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), enabling you to report across multiple frameworks without redundant processes.
The platform also helps users comply with ESG standards, supporting corporate compliance and long-term resilience.
Our AI analysis makes selecting the most relevant metrics for your company or portfolio effortless. You can create, track, and report custom metrics within the platform, ensuring your metrics are tailored to your industry needs. Users can set and monitor specific ESG targets, such as those aligned with the Paris Agreement or SDGs, to measure progress toward sustainability objectives.
For example, a company might use the metric library to streamline sustainability reporting by automatically mapping its data to the required ESG standards, improving efficiency and accuracy. The platform also offers examples of best practices and successful ESG strategies to guide users in implementing effective sustainability initiatives.
Suppose you’re struggling to keep up with ever-changing ESG regulations. In that case, our platform’s AI helps you select the right metrics and provides insights into how these metrics impact your overall ESG performance.
Our continuously updated library ensures compliance with the latest standards and best practices and offers real-world examples to illustrate successful approaches to environmental risk management.
Advanced carbon accounting
When it comes to ESG reporting, carbon accounting is crucial and at KEY ESG, we’ve got it down to a science.
Accurate carbon accounting is essential for businesses combating climate change and reducing environmental impact.
Our AI-driven carbon accounting methodology aligns with global standards like the GHG Protocol and IEA. By integrating globally verified data sources, our platform provides accurate emissions estimates for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. This means you can accurately and consistently measure and report your carbon footprint.
Why is advanced carbon accounting essential? For businesses dedicated to reducing their environmental impact, it’s a game-changer. KEY ESG simplifies this complex task, automating calculations across different scopes:
- Scope 1: Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources.
- Scope 2: Covers indirect emissions. These come from purchasing electricity, steam, heating, and cooling. Monitoring energy use and power consumption in data centres and AI operations is crucial for understanding and managing Scope 2 emissions.
- Scope 3: All other indirect emissions in your company’s value chain.
Our platform also supports companies in transitioning to more sustainable practices, such as shifting to renewable energy sources or adopting electric vehicles, helping ensure operational efficiency and supply chain resilience.
AI-driven insights can further enhance waste management by providing detailed reports on waste reduction, supporting sustainability goals, and aligning with ESG metrics.
Our precise and comprehensive approach helps you pinpoint key areas for improvement and develop effective strategies to shrink your carbon footprint.
AI-driven compliance and reporting
Our team of ESG and legal experts, who actively shape ESG regulations such as CSRD through involvement in XBRL working groups and other regulatory bodies, ensures that our platform always aligns with current standards.
Here’s how KEY ESG’s platform supports AI-driven compliance and reporting:
- Our platform supports major frameworks, including the SFDR, CSRD, International IFRS, and TCFD, and helps you meet all reporting requirements.
- Organisations can leverage advanced AI models to enhance the accuracy and reliability of ESG reporting, generating accurate reports that meet regulatory requirements and helping you avoid penalties.
- Selecting the right AI tool is crucial for practical ESG tasks, and our platform provides robust solutions tailored to your needs.
- Our platform helps organisations optimise resources such as time, data, and human capital for ESG compliance and reporting, improving efficiency and reducing costs.
- The platform's AI features help mitigate risks associated with ESG data management and regulatory compliance, supporting better governance and strategic decision-making.
- You can create compliance reports in various formats and share them with stakeholders in just one click.
But we don’t stop there. Our platform helps you present ESG data professionally and engagingly:
- AI suggestions: Highlight key data points based on insights from similar companies in your industry.
- Analytical narratives: Combine data from multiple benchmarks and sources to provide comprehensive analyses.
This proactive and thorough approach not only simplifies the reporting process but also boosts the credibility of your ESG disclosures, fostering trust among stakeholders.
Empowering users with AI insights
Another key AI-oriented feature of the KEY ESG platform is advanced machine learning algorithms for comprehensive data analysis and insights. By utilising deep ESG knowledge, the platform transforms raw data into actionable insights that support effective decision-making.
Organisations will have visually presented ESG data, allowing users to explore specific metrics, identify trends, and seize opportunities.
Our platform automates various ESG tasks, such as:
- Benchmarking
- Performance analysis
- ESG management
- Compliance
With these capabilities, it’s much more efficient for users to:
- Review metrics
- Compare past data
- Identify patterns
- Establish strategic planning
The platform's effectiveness relies on high-quality data and robust AI algorithms to ensure accurate and unbiased results.
While AI can identify areas of concern in ESG data, human oversight is still required to ensure issues are addressed fairly and responsibly. AI's detailed insights empower businesses to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve their sustainability initiatives.
Risk mitigation through AI-powered ESG management
AI-powered ESG management transforms how companies identify, monitor, and address environmental, social, and governance risks. By leveraging advanced AI tools and machine learning, organisations can analyse vast amounts of ESG data to optimise risk management - such as climate change, supply chain vulnerabilities, or governance lapses - before they escalate.
AI enables companies to automate data collection and reporting, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date risk management processes. With real-time monitoring and analysis, businesses can proactively identify and address emerging risks and maintain stakeholder transparency. This approach helps companies reduce their environmental footprint and strengthens their ability to respond to regulatory changes and market expectations.
AI-driven ESG management provides actionable insights that inform decision-making, allowing companies to prioritise responsible practices and enhance their governance frameworks. By integrating AI into their ESG strategy, companies can continuously monitor their performance, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate their commitment to responsible business. Ultimately, AI-powered risk mitigation supports a more resilient, transparent, and sustainable business model.
Future-proofing ESG management
As ESG regulations evolve, businesses need flexible solutions. KEY ESG’s platform delivers just that, continuously updating its methods to align with the latest standards.
AI ensures compliance and readiness for regulations like the CSRD, allowing companies to focus on their ESG goals. Integrating AI into ESG management also supports the transition to a more sustainable and resilient economy by helping organisations manage risks and drive responsible growth.
As CSRD’s data requirements become clearer, our platform adapts accordingly. We continually enhance our features to stay at the forefront of ESG management. Using AI ensures compliance and readiness for new regulations like the CSRD, allowing companies to focus on their ESG goals.
Our platform is adaptable and scalable. It leverages advanced AI and regularly updates its metrics, ensuring it grows with your business and keeps you ahead of the curve.
Future-proofing ESG management goes beyond compliance. With KEY ESG, businesses can effectively manage ESG reporting and drive meaningful change.
Get KEY ESG’s AI platform and optimise data collection and reporting
At KEY ESG, we’re all about leveraging AI to revolutionise ESG data collection and reporting. Our platform automates metric identification, eliminating manual guesswork and streamlining the process. We ensure compliance so you can effortlessly comply with all regulations. Plus, our platform provides actionable insights, tips, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Our AI-driven approach supports sustainable financing by providing accurate ESG data for investment decisions. It turns ESG challenges into opportunities, paving the way for positive change and long-term value.
With KEY ESG, you’re compliant today and ready for a sustainable future. We emphasise leadership, innovation, and success in every aspect of ESG management.
Ready to revolutionise your ESG journey? Request a demo today and leverage AI for optimised compliance and ESG management.
At KEY ESG, we’re excited to be at the forefront of ESG management software. Our software simplifies and automates the entire ESG data collection and reporting process, ensuring that global organisations can spend less time on reporting and more time on driving improvement strategies.
With cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, we help ESG teams efficiently track, analyse, and report their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, ensuring compliance and enhancing transparency.
This guide explores the importance of using AI to enhance ESG processes and how KEY ESG leverages AI for streamlined ESG data collection, reporting, compliance and management.
The importance of using AI to enhance ESG reporting
ESG reporting is essential for demonstrating transparency, managing risk, and building stakeholder trust. It helps organisations measure and communicate their environmental, social, and governance performance, aligning operations with global sustainability standards and investor expectations. By embedding ESG into strategy, companies can drive long-term value and meet evolving regulatory requirements.
In order to enable businesses to fulfil their reporting obligations and have thecapacity to drive strategic sustainability improvements, it is essential to use AI to streamline the manual processes.
Our platform leverages AI to enhance ESG reporting processes through several key features:
- AI-assisted data collection: Our AI-assisted data collection integrates with your existing systems. It draws and checks data from many sources to ensure accuracy and reliability for ESG reporting.
- AI-driven support and training: Our in-app support and training chatbot is constantly on-hand to give instant answers to your ESG-related questions. Our customers never have to wait for support, they get instant guidance from highly-trained support models and always have access to a telephone number to speak to a human expert if preferred. AI-driven reporting and data analysis: Our platform uses advanced AI analytics to make accurate ESG reports. It offers actionable insights and finds trends to improve your ESG performance. Generative AI is a powerful tool for ESG, streamlining reporting and analysis to drive better outcomes.
These AI-driven tools benefit finance professionals, compliance and risk teams, and sustainability leaders. KEY ESG promotes cross-functional collaboration on sustainability.
KEY ESG features for streamlining data collection and reporting
The KEY ESG platform is designed to support comprehensive sustainability management, helping you improve your sustainability performance and meet regulatory requirements.
Here’s an overview of our platform’s powerful AI-driven features for ESG professionals.
AI-assisted data collection
Gone are the days of tedious manual data entry and human errors. Our platform effortlessly finds and gathers ESG metrics that ensure your data is accurate, current, and tailored to your needs.
How it works is simple:
- Our platform links to your systems, collecting data from financial, supply chain, and environmental sources. This thorough process captures all necessary information.
- Next, our AI reviews and verifies the accuracy and completeness of ESG data, including unstructured data sources such as documents and datasets, ensuring reliable data management for ESG reporting. It spots errors and ensures accuracy. It also drafts responses based on your ESG policies. You can then review, edit, and publish these responses.
This feature is invaluable for CSRD reporting, where most data is textual - it saves a lot of time.
The platform can analyse all business ESG policies to generate actionable insights, helping you identify risks and improve reporting accuracy.
It also supports research activities by enabling comprehensive data collection and analysis for ESG reporting, enhancing the credibility of your disclosures. Robust data protection measures are also incorporated to address ESG risks associated with AI, ensuring your information is secure.
Additionally, the platform is designed to ensure data privacy and compliance with relevant regulations during ESG data collection and reporting.
With AI managing data, you can focus on strategic decisions, knowing your ESG data is handled.
Customisable metric library using AI analysis
KEY ESG’s platform features an extensive and customisable metric library with over 1,000 data points designed explicitly for sustainability data and ESRS. This library aligns with major regulatory frameworks, such as the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), enabling you to report across multiple frameworks without redundant processes.
The platform also helps users comply with ESG standards, supporting corporate compliance and long-term resilience.
Our AI analysis makes selecting the most relevant metrics for your company or portfolio effortless. You can create, track, and report custom metrics within the platform, ensuring your metrics are tailored to your industry needs. Users can set and monitor specific ESG targets, such as those aligned with the Paris Agreement or SDGs, to measure progress toward sustainability objectives.
For example, a company might use the metric library to streamline sustainability reporting by automatically mapping its data to the required ESG standards, improving efficiency and accuracy. The platform also offers examples of best practices and successful ESG strategies to guide users in implementing effective sustainability initiatives.
Suppose you’re struggling to keep up with ever-changing ESG regulations. In that case, our platform’s AI helps you select the right metrics and provides insights into how these metrics impact your overall ESG performance.
Our continuously updated library ensures compliance with the latest standards and best practices and offers real-world examples to illustrate successful approaches to environmental risk management.
Advanced carbon accounting
When it comes to ESG reporting, carbon accounting is crucial and at KEY ESG, we’ve got it down to a science.
Accurate carbon accounting is essential for businesses combating climate change and reducing environmental impact.
Our AI-driven carbon accounting methodology aligns with global standards like the GHG Protocol and IEA. By integrating globally verified data sources, our platform provides accurate emissions estimates for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. This means you can accurately and consistently measure and report your carbon footprint.
Why is advanced carbon accounting essential? For businesses dedicated to reducing their environmental impact, it’s a game-changer. KEY ESG simplifies this complex task, automating calculations across different scopes:
- Scope 1: Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources.
- Scope 2: Covers indirect emissions. These come from purchasing electricity, steam, heating, and cooling. Monitoring energy use and power consumption in data centres and AI operations is crucial for understanding and managing Scope 2 emissions.
- Scope 3: All other indirect emissions in your company’s value chain.
Our platform also supports companies in transitioning to more sustainable practices, such as shifting to renewable energy sources or adopting electric vehicles, helping ensure operational efficiency and supply chain resilience.
AI-driven insights can further enhance waste management by providing detailed reports on waste reduction, supporting sustainability goals, and aligning with ESG metrics.
Our precise and comprehensive approach helps you pinpoint key areas for improvement and develop effective strategies to shrink your carbon footprint.
AI-driven compliance and reporting
Our team of ESG and legal experts, who actively shape ESG regulations such as CSRD through involvement in XBRL working groups and other regulatory bodies, ensures that our platform always aligns with current standards.
Here’s how KEY ESG’s platform supports AI-driven compliance and reporting:
- Our platform supports major frameworks, including the SFDR, CSRD, International IFRS, and TCFD, and helps you meet all reporting requirements.
- Organisations can leverage advanced AI models to enhance the accuracy and reliability of ESG reporting, generating accurate reports that meet regulatory requirements and helping you avoid penalties.
- Selecting the right AI tool is crucial for practical ESG tasks, and our platform provides robust solutions tailored to your needs.
- Our platform helps organisations optimise resources such as time, data, and human capital for ESG compliance and reporting, improving efficiency and reducing costs.
- The platform's AI features help mitigate risks associated with ESG data management and regulatory compliance, supporting better governance and strategic decision-making.
- You can create compliance reports in various formats and share them with stakeholders in just one click.
But we don’t stop there. Our platform helps you present ESG data professionally and engagingly:
- AI suggestions: Highlight key data points based on insights from similar companies in your industry.
- Analytical narratives: Combine data from multiple benchmarks and sources to provide comprehensive analyses.
This proactive and thorough approach not only simplifies the reporting process but also boosts the credibility of your ESG disclosures, fostering trust among stakeholders.
Empowering users with AI insights
Another key AI-oriented feature of the KEY ESG platform is advanced machine learning algorithms for comprehensive data analysis and insights. By utilising deep ESG knowledge, the platform transforms raw data into actionable insights that support effective decision-making.
Organisations will have visually presented ESG data, allowing users to explore specific metrics, identify trends, and seize opportunities.
Our platform automates various ESG tasks, such as:
- Benchmarking
- Performance analysis
- ESG management
- Compliance
With these capabilities, it’s much more efficient for users to:
- Review metrics
- Compare past data
- Identify patterns
- Establish strategic planning
The platform's effectiveness relies on high-quality data and robust AI algorithms to ensure accurate and unbiased results.
While AI can identify areas of concern in ESG data, human oversight is still required to ensure issues are addressed fairly and responsibly. AI's detailed insights empower businesses to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve their sustainability initiatives.
Risk mitigation through AI-powered ESG management
AI-powered ESG management transforms how companies identify, monitor, and address environmental, social, and governance risks. By leveraging advanced AI tools and machine learning, organisations can analyse vast amounts of ESG data to optimise risk management - such as climate change, supply chain vulnerabilities, or governance lapses - before they escalate.
AI enables companies to automate data collection and reporting, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date risk management processes. With real-time monitoring and analysis, businesses can proactively identify and address emerging risks and maintain stakeholder transparency. This approach helps companies reduce their environmental footprint and strengthens their ability to respond to regulatory changes and market expectations.
AI-driven ESG management provides actionable insights that inform decision-making, allowing companies to prioritise responsible practices and enhance their governance frameworks. By integrating AI into their ESG strategy, companies can continuously monitor their performance, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate their commitment to responsible business. Ultimately, AI-powered risk mitigation supports a more resilient, transparent, and sustainable business model.
Future-proofing ESG management
As ESG regulations evolve, businesses need flexible solutions. KEY ESG’s platform delivers just that, continuously updating its methods to align with the latest standards.
AI ensures compliance and readiness for regulations like the CSRD, allowing companies to focus on their ESG goals. Integrating AI into ESG management also supports the transition to a more sustainable and resilient economy by helping organisations manage risks and drive responsible growth.
As CSRD’s data requirements become clearer, our platform adapts accordingly. We continually enhance our features to stay at the forefront of ESG management. Using AI ensures compliance and readiness for new regulations like the CSRD, allowing companies to focus on their ESG goals.
Our platform is adaptable and scalable. It leverages advanced AI and regularly updates its metrics, ensuring it grows with your business and keeps you ahead of the curve.
Future-proofing ESG management goes beyond compliance. With KEY ESG, businesses can effectively manage ESG reporting and drive meaningful change.
Get KEY ESG’s AI platform and optimise data collection and reporting
At KEY ESG, we’re all about leveraging AI to revolutionise ESG data collection and reporting. Our platform automates metric identification, eliminating manual guesswork and streamlining the process. We ensure compliance so you can effortlessly comply with all regulations. Plus, our platform provides actionable insights, tips, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Our AI-driven approach supports sustainable financing by providing accurate ESG data for investment decisions. It turns ESG challenges into opportunities, paving the way for positive change and long-term value.
With KEY ESG, you’re compliant today and ready for a sustainable future. We emphasise leadership, innovation, and success in every aspect of ESG management.
Ready to revolutionise your ESG journey? Request a demo today and leverage AI for optimised compliance and ESG management.
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