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📊 Recent partnerships in sustainability solutions are revealing where the market is moving next. A few patterns stand out from the latest announcements: - climate and ESG data is being pushed into more decision-critical workflows - supply chain monitoring is being tied more directly to reporting and compliance - companies are looking for more supplier-specific, decision-useful carbon data - partnerships are increasingly designed to support business implementation Learn more about our highlighted examples: Rho Impact × ESG.AI: https://lnkd.in/gUR7qbXN CONSUST × Prewave: https://lnkd.in/gvK4xdA5 EcoVadis × Watershed: https://lnkd.in/gK6b-JVN ERM × Secaro × AstraZeneca: https://lnkd.in/g-DSGtPG Explore our latest Q Insights newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gh2BkMad

Please join us in welcoming three new providers to KanataQ this March: Ability Hub, Good.Lab, and Intengine (by eValuater)! Explore their profiles on KanataQ to learn more: Ability Hub supports companies and suppliers with ESG and sustainability capability building. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/gPR2fAnq Good.Lab provides sustainability software and services focused on climate and compliance needs for the mid-market. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/gFDsFC4S evaluater's Intengine offers AI-powered sustainability and supply chain intelligence for risk visibility, performance analysis, and ESG-compliant reporting. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/g-h4YrbN We’re excited to keep growing KanataQ’s community of 400+ ESG and sustainability solution providers across advisory, software, and other categories. List your company on kanataq.com for free and gain leads, access first-of-its-kind market insights, and more.

📊 Beyond deal volume, our latest report on the Sustainability Solutions Acquisition Wave reveals clear acquisition archetypes: → Platform Assemblers Building end-to-end ESG operating systems across carbon, reporting, supply chain, and advisory. → Data Moat Builders Acquiring defensible datasets to strengthen transparency and validation layers. → Compliance Accelerators Expanding regulatory coverage and audit-readiness depth. → Supply Chain Enablers Extending from risk identification to engagement and remediation workflows. → Vertical Specialists Doubling down on sector-specific domain credibility. → Automation Layers Embedding AI-driven monitoring and decision-support capabilities. A recurring pattern stands out: Feature expansion alone is not enough. Strategic acquisitions are increasingly about credibility, integration, and defensibility. The next competitive battleground will not be reporting templates, but operational infrastructure. Download the full report via the link in the comments.

The deals timeline tells a clear story: consolidation in sustainability solutions is already underway. Over the past 12 months, the market has seen 25+ acquisitions, as detailed in our Sustainability Solutions Acquisition Wave report. What this suggests: ➡️ Consolidation is accelerating. The pace of deals suggests a market moving beyond fragmentation toward scale, integration, and broader platform strategies. ➡️ Buyer expectations are shifting. With thousands of providers globally, buyers are increasingly prioritizing fewer tools, deeper integration, and stronger auditability over stitched-together solution stacks. ➡️ Regulatory momentum is giving way to operational execution. After years of growth driven by CSRD and ESG disclosure requirements, vendors are now being assessed more closely on delivery, usability, and workflow depth. ➡️ The market is entering a phase of maturity. After an era defined by category creation and regulatory momentum, the focus is shifting toward operational depth, product breadth, and platform consolidation. These deals signal a structural shift: from growth-by-regulation to growth-by-integration. Link to our latest report in the comments.

Trust is the new differentiator in sustainability. Not more features. Not louder claims. Not bigger buzzwords. In a market crowded with ESG, climate, and sustainability solutions, the companies that stand out are the ones people actually trust to deliver, guide, and help turn complexity into action. We’re excited to share KanataQ's Most Trusted Companies by Category and spotlight the organizations leading across the sustainability ecosystem: 🐝 Biodiversity & Natural Capital | GIST Impact is helping investors, banks, and corporates assess nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities. ♻️ Circular Economy  | LiveCycle is turning LCAs into live, certifiable tools by connecting product, procurement, and sustainability data into one reusable model 🔥 Climate Action  | Earthchain is using AI-driven emissions tracking and carbon accounting to automate data management, reporting, and decarbonization insight. 📈 Digital Solutions & Analytics | Mettle Capital is providing sustainability data and portfolio optimization tools, including API-based integration of daily sustainability data into products and processes. 🍎 Education & Training | ED4S • Education for Sustainability is delivering customizable sustainability and ESG training designed to build internal capability across organizations. 🏦 Governance & Accountability | Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. Institute is supporting organizations with ESG analysis, reporting, disclosure, and responsible business transparency. Impact & Stakeholders 🤝|Umalia is helping organizations turn sustainability into strategic opportunity and advance their business models through engagement-led advisory work. 📄 Reporting & Disclosure | Pelt8 (an Atlas Metrics company) is recognized for sustainability reporting software built around data collection and reporting. 👥 Social & Human Capital | Verdant Search specializes in ESG and sustainability recruitment & @Do Good People helps translate ESG strategy into actionable employee engagement. 🏢 Strategic Advisory Services | Ludke Consulting is advising organizations on sustainability, ESG, inclusion, and practical strategy execution. 💬 Sustainability Communication | Works Design is combining sustainability expertise, reporting experience, design, and storytelling to translate complex information into clear communications. 💲Sustainable Finance | Matter (a Diginex [NASDAQ: DGNX] company) is giving investors more flexible and transparent sustainability insight across portfolio impact, SDG alignment, and regulatory needs. 👔 Sustainable Operations | Muuvment is combining AI-powered ESG management, reporting, and employee engagement tools to help organizations implement and measure sustainability progress. Congratulations to all of this quarter’s category leaders!

📄 This week’s edition of our newsletter Q Insights is out now. It covers recent activity across the sustainability solutions landscape, including new tools, acquisitions, partnerships, and providers joining the KanataQ marketplace. 📊 Q Intelligence We released a new report: The Sustainability Solutions Acquisition Wave, mapping more than 20 acquisitions across ESG reporting, carbon management, supply chain due diligence, LCA, data platforms, and advisory services, and analyzing the consolidation patterns emerging across the market. 📡 Q Signals • The Upright Project launched a sustainability due diligence tool that allows investors to assess companies’ sustainability risks and opportunities using only a website URL. • Position Green launched an ROI Calculator to help companies quantify the financial and emissions impact of decarbonization investments. • XeleratedFifty acquired enterprise carbon management platform Terrascope to expand capabilities in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions management. • Carbon capture company Svante acquired carbon removal project developer Carbon Alpha to strengthen integrated carbon management capabilities. • London Stock Exchange launched LSEG Sustainability Ratings and Data, a new ESG analytics platform designed to help investors evaluate companies’ sustainability risks and opportunities. 🔵 KanataQ Corner We’re also happy to welcome new providers to the KanataQ marketplace: Ability Hub, Good.Lab, and Udak Environment. Great to have you onboard! If you want a clear snapshot of what is moving across sustainability software and advisory solutions, this edition brings it together in one place. Read the full issue in the link in the comments 👇

🚨 New Report: The Sustainability Solutions Acquisition Wave is now live Over the past 12 months, the sustainability solutions market entered a new phase: consolidation. Since early 2025, more than 25 disclosed acquisitions across ESG reporting, carbon management, supply chain due diligence, LCA, data platforms, and advisory services signal a structural transition in how vendors position themselves and how enterprise buyers evaluate solutions. It reflects: → Slower growth and increased enterprise buyer scrutiny → Regulatory recalibration in the US and Europe → Oversaturation across more than 7,000 global sustainability solution providers → A shift from narrowly defined compliance tools to integrated, audit-ready sustainability platforms Several dominant patterns emerged: → Capability expansion over feature accumulation — acquisitions repeatedly focus on carbon accounting depth, regulatory interpretation, supply chain workflows, advisory readiness, and data transparency. → Bundling complementary workflows — reducing reliance on multi-vendor stacks. → Domain credibility as a strategic driver — trust and recognized expertise matter as much as software functionality. → Category boundaries are blurring — reporting, carbon, and supply chain capabilities are converging into unified operating systems. Additionally, a small group of serial acquirers is assembling integrated sustainability platforms across carbon, reporting, supply chain, and advisory, signaling the rise of sustainability operating systems. This report maps the deal landscape from February 2025 to February 2026 and distills what it reveals about market structure, buyer expectations, and vendor strategy. ⬇️ Download the full report via the link in the comments. *Companies mentioned: - ASUENE Inc. - Atlas Metrics - Bureau Veritas Group - Clarity AI - Connect Earth - Dcycle - Denominator - Diginex [NASDAQ: DGNX] - Ecologi | B Corp™ - Equileap - A Denominator Company - ESG-X - Factlines | Part of Position Green - Findings - GoBlu - INOQO S.A. - Matter - Morescope - Net Zero Now - Novata - NZero - One Click LCA - osapiens - Pelt8 - Plan A - Position Green - PRé Sustainability - SB+CO - SimaPro - SLR Consulting - SPIN 360 - WAP Sustainability - Worldly - Zevero & a few others

📊Implementing technology solutions is now the top sustainability action taken by companies globally According to Deloitte’s C-suite Sustainability Report (released in late 2025), when executives were asked which actions their company has already undertaken as part of their sustainability efforts, 46% selected implementing technology solutions to help achieve sustainability goals, making it the most cited response globally. This places technology ahead of: using more sustainable materials (45%), decreasing operational emissions through efficiency (45%), developing new sustainable products or services (44%), and tracking and analysing environmental metrics (44%). The signal is clear. Technology is no longer a supporting layer. It is becoming foundational to how companies execute sustainability strategies. This reinforces a broader shift we continue to observe across the sustainability solutions market: digital capability is increasingly the starting point for measurable action. At KanataQ, we have over 435 vetted sustainability solution providers that can help your organisation find the right tools to move from ambition to execution.

📑 Q Insights Interview: Alessandro Nora, Co-founder & CEO of Metrikflow In our latest edition of Q Insights, we spoke with Alessandro about turning sustainability from a reporting obligation into an operational management system. A few themes stood out: • ESG positioned as integrated infrastructure, not a standalone tool • The first 90 days of onboarding should be focused on alignment, measurement, and quick operational wins • Supplier engagement treated as collaborative value creation, not compliance requests • Integration with ERP, production, and quality systems as a key differentiator in a crowded market ⬇️ For the full interview, see the link in the comments.

📑 This week’s edition of our newsletter Q Insights is out now. It covers a key data point on how companies are acting on sustainability, a founder perspective on integrating ESG into operations, and recent activity across the sustainability solutions landscape. 🎙 Q Interview Alessandro Nora, Co-founder & CEO of Metrikflow, shares how ESG becomes a management system rather than a reporting layer, why the first 90 days focus on alignment and measurable quick wins, and how supplier data can move from a compliance exercise to operational advantage. 📊 Q Intelligence 46% of executives globally now cite technology implementation as their primary sustainability action, ahead of materials, efficiency, product innovation, and environmental tracking. 🗞 Q Signals Diginex [NASDAQ: DGNX] signed a $40m reseller agreement with RESULTICKS. Datamaran launched a new Regulatory Monitoring solution. Polecat introduced a quantified External Risk Profile. Credibl partnered with SD Worx to strengthen the company's CSRD and ESRS readiness. ERM and Jupiter Intelligence formed a climate risk analytics partnership. Morningstar Sustainalytics updated its Climate Transition Toolkit. TrusTrace and a group of retailers launched a standardized due diligence questionnaire. 🔵 KanataQ Corner We’re happy to welcome new providers to the KanataQ marketplace: All Aligned and 360 Agency Berlin. Great to have you onboard! If you want a clear snapshot of what is moving across sustainability software and advisory solutions, this edition brings it together in one place. Read the full issue in the link in the comments 👇