FinanceFebruary 16, 2026
When sustainability becomes strategy: inside the rise of data-driven climate leadership
Wolters Kluwer’s CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics secures SEAL Sustainable Service Award
In a year that saw sustainability move decisively from aspiration to operational reality, Wolters Kluwer’s CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics has been named a winner of the SEAL Sustainable Service Awards.
The SEAL Award is one of the industry’s most respected global honors recognizing innovation, measurable impact, and corporate leadership in environmental stewardship.
A milestone moment in the evolution of sustainability leadership
The awards, now in their tenth year, spotlight organizations that demonstrate meaningful progress in addressing climate and ESG challenges. This recognition underscores the role that sophisticated data, scenario planning, and integrated ESG intelligence can play. Together, these capabilities enable organizations to translate sustainability goals into actionable business strategy.
Matt Harney, Chairperson and Founder of SEAL Awards, said of program’s milestone year:
“As we mark the tenth year of the SEAL Business Sustainability Awards, this year’s honorees show that sustainability is no longer a parallel initiative, it is becoming the operating system of modern business. Across industries and continents, these leaders are proving that measurable environmental progress happens when innovation, operations, and leadership align around impact. We commend each winner not only for what they have achieved, but for the example they set and the momentum they create for even greater action in the years ahead.”
Turning ESG ambition into action through integrated planning
That momentum is particularly evident in the capabilities that earned CCH Tagetik this distinction. As companies face pressure from regulators, investors, and their own boards to demonstrate credible pathways toward decarbonization and resilience, many are looking to integrate sustainability into the same decision-making frameworks that govern financial and operational performance.
CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics is designed precisely to facilitate that integration.
"This recognition reflects our commitment to empowering customers with data-driven insights that turn ambition into measurable progress."
Maria Montenegro, CEO, Wolters Kluwer CP & ESG
At its core, CCH Tagetik unifies financial, operational, and ESG data into a single connected system. This allows organizations to model emissions trajectories with financial grade accuracy, evaluate decarbonization strategies, and forecast ESG outcomes under different regulatory or market conditions.
By enabling teams to simulate scenarios, such as the impact of climate regulations, shifts in energy mix, supply chain interventions, or capital investments, it helps leaders understand how sustainability initiatives influence performance today and shape long-term enterprise value.
This alignment of financial and sustainability planning is increasingly essential as the global regulatory ecosystem continues to evolve. Climate disclosure rules, expanding ESG reporting obligations, and rising expectations from lenders and shareholders have elevated sustainability from a reporting exercise to an enterprise-wide strategic function.
Tools that can bridge those domains, capturing data, modeling risks, ensuring auditability, and powering both performance management and climate strategy, are now foundational to credible corporate climate action.
By enabling teams to simulate scenarios, such as the impact of climate regulations, shifts in energy mix, supply chain interventions, or capital investments, it helps leaders understand how sustainability initiatives influence performance today and shape long-term enterprise value.
This alignment of financial and sustainability planning is increasingly essential as the global regulatory ecosystem continues to evolve. Climate disclosure rules, expanding ESG reporting obligations, and rising expectations from lenders and shareholders have elevated sustainability from a reporting exercise to an enterprise-wide strategic function.
Tools that can bridge those domains, capturing data, modeling risks, ensuring auditability, and powering both performance management and climate strategy, are now foundational to credible corporate climate action.
Building the systems that will define the next era of corporate sustainability
The SEAL honor is important to Wolters Kluwer leadership.
“Our CCH Tagetik ESG and Sustainability for Planning and Analytics solution helps organizations bring rigor, transparency, and actionability to their sustainability strategies,” said Maria Montenegro, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Performance & ESG. “This recognition reflects our commitment to empowering customers with data driven insights that turn ambition into measurable progress."
In honoring CCH Tagetik’s ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics, SEAL is recognizing a solution built for this era of accountability. With sustainability now intertwined with competitive advantage, regulatory resilience, and strategic adaptation, the tools that enable data-driven climate action are becoming indispensable.
Wolters Kluwer’s SEAL award underscores how integrated ESG planning and analytics can help reshape business strategy, and why the future of sustainability depends on ambition, intelligence and innovation that transforms ambition into real-world results.
Frequently Asked Questions - ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics
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What is CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics?
CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics is an enterprise solution that enables organizations to plan, measure, and manage ESG performance with the same rigor as financial performance.
It connects ESG data with financial planning, forecasting, and performance management, helping organizations move beyond static reporting to forward-looking, decision-grade sustainability management. -
How is this different from traditional ESG reporting tools?
Traditional ESG tools focus primarily on collecting and reporting historical data. ESG reporting tools focus mainly on supporting customers with the complex regulatory requirements: CSRD is the greatest example, but there are also many voluntary frameworks (GRI, SASB, CDP, etc.) that our customers have to deal with. CCH Tagetik goes further the pure compliance and reporting needs, by embedding ESG into planning, analytics, and scenario modeling.
This means organizations can:- Assess the financial and operational impact of sustainability initiatives before they are implemented
- Model tradeoffs between sustainability goals and business outcomes
- Integrate ESG targets directly into enterprise planning cycles
- In short, it supports ESG as a management discipline, not just a disclosure exercise.
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Why is planning and analytics becoming so important for ESG?
ESG expectations have shifted from to “what happens next.”
Executives are increasingly expected to:- Set credible, measurable ESG targets
- Understand the costs, risks, and benefits of sustainability decisions
- Demonstrate progress over time, not just compliance
Planning and analytics provide the foundation for informed, defensible ESG decisions, enabling leaders to move from commitments to execution. Indeed CCH Tagetik supports customers on their operational and strategic decisions, guiding them through their journey to create long-term value.
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Who typically uses this solution within an organization?
CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for Planning & Analytics is designed for cross functional collaboration, with particular relevance for:
- Finance and FP&A teams, who own planning and performance management
- Sustainability and ESG leaders, responsible for targets and disclosures
- CFOs and Csuite leaders, who need a consolidated view of financial and ESG performance
By bringing these teams onto a single platform, organizations reduce silos and improve alignment.
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How does the solution support regulatory and compliance needs?
The solution is built to support structured, auditable ESG data management, which is increasingly required by regulators and stakeholders.
It helps organizations:- Establish consistent ESG data models
- Perform and document materiality and impact assessments
- Maintain traceability between ESG metrics, business assumptions, and planning decisions
This reduces risk while improving confidence in both internal decision making and external disclosures.
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What business outcomes does this enable?
Customers use the solution to:
- Improve the quality and credibility of ESG decisions
- Align sustainability strategy with financial and operational planning
- Reduce manual effort and reliance on spreadsheets
- Strengthen governance, transparency, and accountability across ESG initiatives
The result is more confident leadership decisions and a clearer path from sustainability goals to measurable outcomes.