Transparent ESG data management for commercial and industrial buildings.

Build your ESG strategy on solid data.

COUNTRY is at the forefront of sustainability and ESG compliance, driven by ambitious national priorities and strict EU regulations. In the 2025 Swisscanto ESG country rating, Denmark once again ranks first, reflecting its leading role in climate action. This leadership is supported by some of Europe’s most rigorous requirements for non-residential buildings with even stricter rules introduced in 2025.

To stay compliant, improve operational efficiency, and support COUNTRY's continued sustainability ambitions, ista provides a fast and reliable entry point into modern ESG management and CO₂ reporting. We supply most of the consumption and emissions data required for transparent CO₂ analyses, whether for individual sites or entire commercial and industrial portfolios.

Evaluate energy use, emissions, and operating costs instantly, then turn these insights into robust, compliant sustainability reporting. Whether you report under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) or share data with investors, corporate boards, or stakeholders, our smart solution ensures accuracy, consistency, and clarity across all your non-residential assets.

How ESG-Navi supports your decarbonization management.

Since 2023, all new buildings in Denmark have been required to document their CO₂ emissions across the entire lifecycle. Strict CO₂ limits have already applied to buildings over 1,000 m², and extended requirements for smaller buildings came into effect from 2025.

ESG-Navi provides the transparency and security needed in this evolving regulatory environment. The platform enables property owners and facility managers to plan climate measures, define renovation actions, and track their impact directly within the system. Consumption and CO₂ trends are clearly visualized, improvement measures are recorded as milestones, and planned or completed actions can be evaluated based on CO₂ savings — including before/after views that support both compliance and strategic decision-making.

Easy bank reporting.

ESG documentation for lenders can quickly become a major challenge for commercial and industrial operators — and will become even more important as financing terms increasingly depend on transparent sustainability data. ESG-Navi enables users to meet the requirements of financing partners while also complying with current CSRD expectations.

The platform supports tailored reporting to banks without the need for manual data collection from multiple systems. Users simply select the relevant criteria in an intuitive interface, and ESG-Navi generates a customized data extract from the current database with one click. This ensures accurate, consistent, and audit-ready information for sustainability-related financing, valuations, and due diligence processes.

Standards and the regulatory landscape behind ESG data.

As Denmark tightens its sustainability framework, structured and high-quality ESG data is becoming increasingly important for companies managing commercial and industrial properties. With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now implemented into Danish law, many organizations must report in detail on energy consumption, emissions, governance practices, and climate-related impacts. This information must be prepared according to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which precisely define which ESG indicators must be measured and documented. Even companies not formally subject to CSRD face growing demands from banks, supply chains, and investors to provide consistent, transparent sustainability data — reinforcing the need for reliable digital data management.

The voluntary VSME standard provides a streamlined alternative reporting framework to the full ESRS requirements for smaller commercial actors and industrial SMEs. This framework allows organizations to share relevant sustainability information with partners and lenders without the complexity of corporate reporting. Together, CSRD, ESRS, and VSME create a more structured environment for ESG reporting in Denmark’s non-residential sector — an environment that depends heavily on accurate, standardized consumption and emissions data.

ESG-Navi forms the digital infrastructure within this environment, offering standardized, verifiable datasets that facilitate compliance, increase data transparency, and support informed decision-making across commercial and industrial portfolios.

CRREM’s relevance for commercial and industrial properties.

Beyond formal reporting requirements, CRREM has become an invaluable tool for assessing long-term climate performance across a wide range of buildings — including offices, retail environments, and other commercial and industrial properties. CRREM provides scientifically based decarbonization pathways for different building types, such as logistics facilities, office complexes, and industrial sites. A central element of the framework is the concept of “stranding risk” — when a building’s emissions exceed the CRREM curve, potentially leading to regulatory challenges, decreased property value, and higher financing costs.

For commercial and industrial portfolios, CRREM offers a practical benchmark to identify inefficiencies, prioritize improvements, and evaluate CO₂ impacts from operational processes. As Denmark introduces stricter lifecycle CO₂ limits and requirements for climate documentation, integrating CRREM insights becomes increasingly important for strategic planning and risk management.

ESG-Navi is designed to support this development, and upcoming features will enable CRREM-aligned comparisons and scenario modeling directly within the platform.