Watershed — The sustainability AI platform
The market-leading sustainability AI solution
Watershed is consistently recognized as a market leader by independent analysts. Verdantix scored Watershed market-leading or strong in all eight areas in its Smart Innovators: Supply Chain & Product Carbon Management report—and named Watershed a leader in its 2026 and 2025 Green Quadrant reports. Most recently Forrester named Watershed a leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave™: Sustainability Management Software, awarding the highest possible scores in nine of 17 criteria.
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Rigorous data. Real outcomes.
Use our industry-leading methodologies to uncover operational efficiencies and new business opportunities hidden in your sustainability data.
01 Measure
Get a complete view of your impact—from carbon emissions to water and land use—in moments. Access our library of 2.3 million emission factors, benchmarks, and methodologies, and see how every number was calculated.
02 Report
Accelerate reporting across frameworks with a flexible platform that pre-populates data, offers AI drafting, and evolves quickly with regulatory change. With full data lineage, review workflows, peer benchmarks and AI transparency, you can stand by your report quality.
03 Act
Surface cost savings, operational efficiencies, and strategic decarbonization paths. Buy into highly vetted clean power projects, decarbonize your supply chain, and forecast changes at the material, product, and company level.
Unlock value at every step of the process
Data collection
Easily ingest and structure data with built-in OCR and project management features.
Data cleaning & standardization
Automated anomaly detection and data formatting standardization.
Mapping & measurement
Customize mapping and adjust methodologies to fit any measurement.
Analysis
Explore material, product, and supplier data to analyze the impact of every business decision.
Reporting
Automate your ESG reporting with full control over reference data and methodologies.
Agents to accelerate work
Delegate data cleaning, formatting, and analysis to purpose-built AI agents.
Intelligence to improve results
Draft reports using peer benchmarks and the most comprehensive climate database.
Full controls for peace of mind
Get results you can trust with built-in human review and transparent calculations.
Contributing our expertise to advance sustainability globally
4.1Gt emissions under management
16 in-house experts on industry technical working groups
42 leading experts on Watershed’s science, policy, and finance advisory groups
68+ research contributions
Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative
A collaboration between ERG, the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and Watershed, the Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative provides high-quality, open sustainability data for businesses, governments, researchers, and other organizational users worldwide.
Our mission
Accelerating the climate economy
Our mission is to accelerate a future in which sustainability isn’t an extra-credit activity; it’s a data-driven, value-generating aspect of running a successful business. We call this the climate economy. Watershed gives companies the tools to make the transition to this new future simple, fast, and seamless—with a near-term goal of reducing or removing 500 MT of carbon from the Earth’s atmosphere by 2030.
Let’s get to work
Explore industry-leading resources and get insights from our experts.
Customer Story
How Canva is setting a new standard for reducing scope 3 emissions and making a lasting climate impact \ Read more](/content/de/customers/canva/index.html)
Guide
Sustainability disclosure for companies: 2026 edition \ Read more](/content/de/guides/climate-disclosure/index.html)
Watershed HQ
Rectifying major discrepancies in corporate emissions measurements \ Read more](/content/de/blog/nature-study-2026/index.html)