Q Insights #030

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Welcome to this edition of Q Insights — our bi-weekly newsletter for sustainability and ESG professionals looking to make smarter solution decisions.

Each edition brings you concise, relevant updates on the tools, trends, and technologies driving the sustainable transition. We filter the noise, highlight what matters, and help you navigate the sustainability solution landscape with clarity and confidence.

In this edition, we’ll cover:

• Q Update: KanataQ has a new look 💙

• Q Signals:
 - Upright launched a new AI model
 - Coolset launched Coolset Agents
- Clarity AI launched a physical climate risk solution
- Sweep launched a new UK SRS solution
- MSCI acquired climate risk modeling company First Street
- BeZero Carbon acquired AI-powered climate data startup Cedar

• KanataQ Corner: Newly Listed Providers on KanataQ ✅

• and other insights 💡

Q UPDATE

💙 KanataQ has a new look: we’ve refreshed the KanataQ website to make it easier for buyers, investors, and solution providers to navigate the sustainability market.

On the new hub, users can:
→ Search and compare 450+ verified sustainability solutions
→ Explore software, data providers, consultants, and advisory firms across 75+ categories
→ Filter by category, trust score, location, pricing, and more
→ View richer solution profiles with demos, screenshots, documents, and verified details
→ Save solutions, access pricing, and follow market updates
→ Discover resources, guides, interviews, leaderboards, and market insights
→ Join the waitlist for Matchy, our AI-powered solution discovery agent

The sustainability market is growing quickly, but finding the right tools and partners can still feel fragmented, noisy, and time-consuming.

KanataQ is built to make that process simpler: search, compare, and connect with trusted sustainability solutions in one place.

Explore the new hub: https://hub.kanataq.com

Q SIGNALS

Latest developments, insights, and trends

📊 New tools, features, acquisitions, and funding rounds from solution providers

Upright (KanataQ listed) launched a new AI model trained on scientific evidence to help companies and investors quantify sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities in monetary terms. Unlike approaches that rely primarily on corporate disclosures, the model powers real-time assessments across areas such as double materiality, climate risk, EU Taxonomy, SFDR, and SDG analysis. The company said the tool is designed to turn sustainability from a reporting exercise into a decision-making tool, enabling users to evaluate scenarios, benchmark performance, and explore the evidence behind sustainability claims. (link)

Coolset (KanataQ listed) launched Coolset Agents, a new AI-powered workspace that helps companies automate sustainability and supply chain compliance tasks, including supplier due diligence, ESG reporting, emissions analysis, Scope 2 data processing, and custom reporting. Built on the company’s API-first architecture and MCP integration, the new agents are designed to simplify complex ESG workflows, reduce the learning curve for users, and accelerate compliance and reporting processes. (link)

Clarity AI (KanataQ listed) launched a new asset-level physical climate risk solution to help investors, asset owners, and banks assess exposure to climate-related risks across more than 3 million assets. The platform evaluates 16 climate and nature hazards across multiple climate scenarios and time horizons, providing more granular data to support investment, lending, and risk management decisions. (link)

Sweep launched a new UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) solution to help UK-listed companies prepare for upcoming mandatory sustainability reporting requirements. The platform includes pre-mapped disclosures, AI-powered drafting through its assistant “Sweepy,” approval workflows, audit trails, and supplier data collection tools, while allowing companies to reuse the same data across frameworks such as CSRD, CDP, GRI, and investor reporting. (link)

MSCI acquired climate risk modeling company First Street for $120 million to strengthen its physical climate risk capabilities. The acquisition will combine First Street’s property-level climate risk models with MSCI’s climate and geospatial data, enabling investors, lenders, and companies to better assess the financial impacts of hazards such as floods, wildfires, and extreme heat across more than 2 billion structures worldwide. (link)

Carbon ratings agency BeZero Carbon acquired AI-powered climate data startup Cedar to strengthen the due diligence capabilities of its carbon markets platform. The acquisition will enhance BeZero’s AI-driven tools for carbon project analysis and investment decisions, with Cedar’s founders joining the company as demand grows for more robust carbon market data and ratings. (link)

KANATAQ CORNER

What’s new on KanataQ?

📈 KanataQ Growing Family

Providers that joined KanataQ since our last edition: Karbon (Climate Action) and Sustainability Consulting (Strategic Advisory Services).

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