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"Are we ready for the audit?" "Did every site send their data?" "Is there a gap the auditors will flag?" Every sustainability team asks these questions right before audit season. Then the auditor's questions arrive. And suddenly you're chasing people across facilities to explain a gap nobody noticed. The frustrating part? The numbers looked fine. Here's why: a number can have the right format, the right unit, and sit inside a plausible range, and still be wrong. That's the gap format checks can't close. They score what looks broken. They miss what looks fine but can't be trusted. That’s why at Sprih, every record gets a verdict, not a score. Scanned bill, spreadsheet, ERP or utility integration, live meter—it doesn't matter where the data comes from. The same five questions apply to every record, and every record gets an answer. Not a percentage. And the checks don't run once. They run three times: at entry, before approval, and after approval. Because a record that was clean in March can stop being clean in June. A quality score tells you to worry. A named flag tells you what's wrong, which record is affected, why it matters, and how to fix it. That's the difference between data that looks right and data you can stand behind. So, ahead of your next audit, if you still don't know which records you can stand behind, or what's the last data gap that caught your team by surprise, reach out to our sustainability experts. #SustainabilityData #AI #ClimateTech #CorporateSustainability #DataAudit

Trying to understand sustainability without opening 47 tabs? Scope 3. Climate risk. Carbon accounting. Sustainable supply chains. CBAM. One concept somehow leads to five more. Sustainability can feel like a maze of concepts, frameworks and acronyms. But what if you could actually see how they all connect, in one view? Explore CANOPY — a free, interactive way to navigate sustainability concepts and understand the connections between them.

𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 Decarb Connect 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸. The last one I attended was in London last month, alongside Anupam Tripathy from ETIAConsult BV and Walter Scott from ETRMServices. It was a smaller event. That turned out to be its strength. The conversations weren't rushed. The agenda moved between hydrogen economics, carbon capture and storage, industrial energy transition, and the realities of financing decarbonisation at scale, and because the room was small, those topics didn't stay on stage. They continued over coffee, at the booth, in the hallway. People were thinking out loud more than presenting. I took away more than a single insight. It was more of a shift in how I understand the problem. Decarbonisation, at least for heavy industry, is no longer primarily a technology question. The technologies exist, or are close enough. The harder questions are about capital, what gets approved at investment committee, what the risk profile looks like when a pilot needs to become a repeatable deployment, and how climate exposure actually sits in the return calculations of the people funding these transitions. I hadn't expected green finance and climate investment to be such a strong thread. But it was. And it reframed a few things for me. Hamburg is a different scale — 180+ attendees, more economies represented, and from what I can see, the agenda this year goes even further into those commercial and capital questions. Less on what should happen. More on what is actually moving. Looking forward to it. If you're attending, I'd like to connect. Sprih

Sustainability has quietly moved from a reporting theme to a structural force that shapes how companies compete, operate, and survive. What used to sit in Sustainability committees now sits inside board discussions on risk, supply chain exposure, capital allocation, and long-term enterprise value. If boards want real resilience, they need clearer answers to harder questions — not just whether disclosures are compliant, but whether the organisation actually understands its emissions, its supplier vulnerabilities, its exposure to climate volatility, and the regulatory pressure coming from every major region. Based on my countless conversations with CXOs, board members, I’ve put down my observations in the write-up below — a closer look at why supply-chain disruption, cross-border climate laws, Scope 3 expectations, and climate-linked financial risks all point to one reality: sustainability is becoming the infrastructure of competitiveness. The boards that invest now in accuracy, supplier intelligence, interoperability, and resilience will lead the next decade. The rest will be trying to catch up.

Every company today faces the same dilemma: too much data, too little clarity. Between BRSR, CSRD, SB-253/261, and dozens of regional frameworks, disclosure expectations are rising faster than most teams can keep up. What this white paper does is bring order to that chaos. By analyzing 200,000+ disclosures from 80,000+ companies, it shows not only where global patterns are forming, but where the gaps are widening. The insights cut across industries: which sectors are aligning fastest with regulation, where Scope 3 still stalls, and how company size affects disclosure depth. Whether you’re a CSO, CFO, or supply chain head, the takeaway is simple, the next phase of sustainability reporting is about integration, not compliance. The white paper gives you the evidence to back that shift. Take the time to read it - it might change how you think about where your organization stands. Link in the comments.

Sometimes data bursts a lot of bubbles! You go in thinking you know what the trends will look like, which sectors are leading, which regions are lagging, and then the numbers tell you a completely different story. That’s exactly what happened as we built and analyzed Sprih’s sustainability database. When you start looking at 200,000+ disclosures across more than 80,000 companies, patterns emerge that challenge intuition. It’s humbling, but also incredibly useful. Especially when customers come to us preparing for board reviews or investor meetings, asking, “How are others in our sector doing?” or “What are peers disclosing under Scope 3?” Having a structured, AI-readable dataset makes those answers almost immediate. It takes what used to be weeks of searching through scattered PDFs and turns it into insight you can pull in seconds. That’s what this new white paper captures — the collective patterns, the gaps, and the momentum in how companies are integrating sustainability into their strategy. It’s about understanding where you really stand. The white paper is a must-read especially if you are in sustainability or want to understand the space better. Download using the link in the comments.