Context Labs is named as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Carbon Accounting and Management Software, 2025. This recognition is validation of the industry’s growing demand for trust and credibility in managing carbon performance.
“Gartner defines the carbon accounting and management software market as applications
that facilitate the measurement, management, reduction and reporting of enterprise
emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol.”Market Guide for Carbon Accounting and Management Software, Gartner®, 27 October 2025
Core and Differentiating Capabilities
Gartner splits the market into two sets of capabilities: core and differentiating. Core capabilities are must-haves: the minimum viable product to deliver on carbon accounting requirements. Differentiating capabilities refer to capabilities that directly impact vendor selection.
Context Labs AI-enabled platform provides semantic reasoning and insight inference, as well as traceability and workflow automation across complex digital and physical environments. The platform enables industrial-scale data contextualization—turning emissions data into auditable carbon insights that meet evolving reporting requirement.
The adoption of generative (as well as other forms of) AI within the tools has been increasing rapidly — enabling more automation in data collection, output analysis and report generation. However, persistent gaps in the availability and quality of the underlying source data pose a significant risk to the integrity of calculations.
Market Guide for Carbon Accounting and Management Software, Gartner®, 27 October 2025
Industry Clusters that Require Carbon Accounting and Management Software
The Market Guide also elaborates on the four industry clusters and their subsets that require carbon accounting and management software:
- Energy-intensive operations
- Complex supply chains
- Financed emissions
- Digital business
Each of these four industries represents a critical pillar of the current and future global economy. All of them must manage their carbon performance not merely as a sustainability initiative, but as a data driver feeding risk, pricing, and investment analysis tools.
DaaS™ is uniquely aligned with this market evolution, offering all-source data ingestion and machine learning–driven knowledge graphs to deliver enterprise-grade results.
Why This Matters
Buyers of carbon accounting and management software demand platforms that:
- Deliver scope 1-3 coverage and are not just focused on upstream emissions
- Provide actionable insights tied to operations and ground truth, not just dashboards and factor models
- Leverage AI and advanced analytics to drive reduction, not just measure it
- Offer trusted, verifiable data that can stand up to audits, disclosure and stakeholder scrutiny
Access the research and learn more about the current state of the carbon accounting and management software market:
Gartner, Market Guide for Carbon Accounting and Management Software, Lillian Oyen-Ustad, Kevin Lawrence, et al., 27 October 2025
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