Sustainable Finance

Connect environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and business data to streamline reporting, accelerate decarbonization, and drive sustainable growth with AI-powered solutions.​
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Enhance enterprise performance by integrating sustainability and financial data

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Create a trusted sustainability data foundation

Support audit-ready ESG reporting, reduce costs and risk, and drive measurable business outcomes.​

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Audit-ready ESG reporting​

Deliver audit-ready ESG reporting with trusted, traceable data to improve decision-making, reduce risk, and build stakeholder confidence.

Financial impact management​

Manage carbon costs, protect margins, and streamline compliance with connected carbon and financial data.​

Sustainability footprint optimization

Gain granular emissions insights, identify reduction opportunities, simulate multiple scenarios, and take action to accelerate decarbonization.​

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Sustainability reporting foundation 

Incorporate the results of your materiality assessments into a reporting scope to translate ESG regulatory requirements into sustainability metric selection.

Data sourcing and collection

Streamline your data sourcing from both SAP and non-SAP systems and efficiently gather and consolidate data across your organization.

Performance insights and business steering

Analyze ESG metrics alongside financial and operational data. Use interactive dashboards to uncover trends, track progress, and steer sustainability performance.

ESG report generation with AI

Generate ESG reports using prebuilt templates and AI-assisted drafting. Integrate with SAP or partner disclosure tools to tag, validate, and publish reports.

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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Carbon Emissions Calculator

Estimate CBAM certificate requirements and carbon costs for goods imported into the European Union.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Building trusted carbon data at scale

Learn how HARTING uses SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to generate granular carbon footprint data for 13,000 materials, turning emission insights into better business decisions.

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Streamlining ESG reporting across 48 companies

Learn how the Tyrolit Group, a 2025 SAP Innovation Award finalist, achieved CSRD compliance using SAP Sustainability Control Tower.

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Unlocking sustainability with carbon footprint transparency

Learn how Martur Fompak uses SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to gain product carbon footprint visibility and drive sustainable product decisions.

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Getting ahead of regulatory reporting

Learn how KNAPP AG responded with urgency to the EU CSRD mandate with SAP Sustainability solutions, enabling the company to drive strategic business value beyond compliance.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

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How SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise architecture shifts sustainability from disclosure to decision

The IDC Market Note highlights SAP's AI-powered approach to embedding sustainability across finance, supply chain, and operations, helping organizations transition from sustainability reporting to sustainability execution.

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Worldwide Carbon Accounting and Management Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

SAP is positioned in the Leaders category in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Carbon Accounting and Management Applications—the second time in this market.

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Worldwide AI-Enabled Green Accounting Applications for CFOs 2025 Vendor Assessment

SAP is positioned in the Major Players category in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide AI-Enabled Green Accounting Applications for CFOs.

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Resources

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Beyond Compliance: A CFO Blueprint for Turning Sustainability into Business Value

Discover how leading CFOs are turning carbon data into business value. Learn how sustainability data drives cost savings, revenue growth, and smarter risk decisions.

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Applying financial discipline to carbon management

Learn how 10 leading organizations help companies build financially responsible carbon accounting and management practices.

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What is the EU's CBAM?

Learn how the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to reduce carbon leakage and support global decarbonization in trade practices.

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Finance meets sustainability

Explore insights from 11,000 leaders in 20 markets on how sustainability champions are deploying AI to deliver sustainable business results.

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What are the IFRS® sustainability disclosure standards?

IFRS S1 and S2 set the global standard for disclosing sustainability risks tied to enterprise value.

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What is ESG reporting?

Discover the essentials of ESG reporting and how it aligns your company with sustainability goals, as well as enhances transparency, accountability, and value creation.

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What is carbon accounting?

Find out how carbon accounting helps companies comply with regulatory demands and track progress toward their climate goals.

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Experience SAP Sustainability solutions in action

Get a closer look at SAP Sustainability solutions with product tours, free trials, and solution demos.

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Frequently asked questions

Sustainability in finance is the practice of incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into financial strategy, planning, and reporting alongside traditional financial metrics. Rather than treating sustainability as a separate initiative, organizations integrate carbon, climate risk, and ESG data into core financial decisions, such as capital allocation, budgeting, and risk management, to better understand both long-term value and exposure to regulatory and market pressures.

ESG reporting software helps organizations collect, manage, and report on environmental, social, and governance data in compliance with regulatory frameworks such as CSRD and IFRS. It centralizes data from across the business, enables audit-ready reporting on metrics like emissions, energy use, and workforce diversity, and supports target setting and performance tracking. It replaces manual, spreadsheet-based processes with automated, verifiable data flows.

Carbon management and carbon accounting software enables organizations to measure, track, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1, 2, and 3. It calculates corporate and product-level carbon footprints using actual operational data, rather than estimates, and supports compliance with emission reporting standards such as the GHG Protocol. Leading solutions embed carbon data directly into financial and procurement systems so that emissions become a factor in everyday business decisions.

 

Integrating sustainability into finance and business planning gives organizations a more complete picture of risk and performance. It connects emissions and ESG data to financial outcomes, enabling more informed decisions on capital allocation, supplier selection, and cost management. It also streamlines regulatory compliance by generating audit-ready sustainability disclosures from the same data used for financial reporting, reducing duplication and the risk of inconsistency across reports.

SAP offers an integrated sustainability portfolio—including SAP Sustainability Control Tower, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, SAP Sustainability Data Exchange, and SAP Green Ledger—that embeds carbon and ESG data directly into ERP and financial processes. Because sustainability is integrated into SAP's core business systems rather than added as a separate tool, organizations can use actual transactional data to comply with regulations, produce auditable Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions reports, and factor carbon costs into financial planning.

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