Sustainability platform Sustaira has announced the introduction of a new series of Industry-Specific Sustainability Suites. These are designed to enable companies to address decarbonization, climate risk management, and other pertinent sustainability issues unique to their respective sectors.
The new solutions currently cater to seven industries: Industrial, Construction, Energy & Utilities, Finance, Education & Public Sector, Logistics, and Consumer Goods & Retail. Sustaira plans to expand coverage to include Healthcare, Telecommunication, and Real Estate by 2026, as well as specialised domains like Water & Waste Stewardship and Risk & Resilience.
Sustaira has identified a significant challenge organisations face when investing in sustainability technology. Companies are often forced to choose between off-the-shelf solutions, which are frequently too generic, and more expensive custom-built tools. Rory O’Sullivan, Sustaira’s Global Sustainability Lead, commented on the frustration sustainability teams encounter when expensive platforms still require reliance on error-prone spreadsheets and manual calculations to suit unique business models. Sustaira’s modular approach offers a vertically specialised solution that adapts to the client’s needs.
Each suite is constructed using a modular, AI-powered architecture, with core solutions targeting the most pressing sustainability challenges specific to each sector. For instance, the Finance Sustainability Suite includes emissions calculators aligned with the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) tools, while the Construction Sustainability Suite provides contractor-specific data aggregation and reporting capabilities.
Additionally, Sustaira’s platform features pre-built connectors to facilitate integration with other platforms such as IBM Envizi, Workiva, Enablon, Sphera, Sweep, Watershed, Persefoni, Microsoft, Salesforce, Greenly, and SAP.
Vincent de la Mar, Sustaira CEO, highlighted that most current sustainability platforms focus narrowly on Carbon Accounting and Disclosures. While important, these are just a part of the broader picture. Organisations require domain and industry-specific solutions to address their unique operational realities, whether it be decarbonising heavy industries, managing green finance portfolios, mitigating climate risk, or tackling Scope 3 emissions in logistics.
