ERM Joins Salesforce As Lead Global Advisor For Net Zero

ERM, the global leader in specialist sustainability consultancy, has further intensified its partnership with Salesforce by becoming a global tier one Net Zero Cloud Advisory & Implementation Partner. This strategic alliance represents a significant milestone in the quest to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities with business core. It will speed up corporate decarbonization efforts while unleashing real business value.

With businesses across the globe increasing their efforts toward sustainability, the demand for sound tools and professional advice becomes ever more essential. Net Zero Cloud, Salesforce's end-to-end sustainability platform, is central to assisting companies in streamlining their ESG strategies. Thoroughly embedded within the Salesforce ecosystem, Net Zero Cloud helps companies automate reporting on sustainability, fill data gaps, and produce real-time insights. By bringing together environmental information throughout the value chain, the platform enables better decision-making and more efficient operations—ultimately supporting lower climate footprint without sacrificing profitability.

ERM's participation as a premium advisory and implementation provider reflects its leadership role in moving sustainability practice throughout industries. With the support of Net Zero Cloud, ERM provides a full range of services, such as strategic planning, benchmarking, materiality analysis, and value chain mapping. From the gathering of data to ESG disclosure and setting of targets, ERM applies both strategic expertise and technical experience to assist organizations in building and implementing sustainability roadmaps that support wider business transformation objectives.

The alliance marks a turning point in the corporate decarbonization trend. In the words of Gerard Spans, ERM's Global Head of Digital Services, the emphasis is now on taking concrete, accelerated action rather than just setting long-term targets. "Corporate decarbonization initiatives have evolved from establishing long-term goals to identifying means to accelerate action to not only achieve those ambitious targets, but to realize tangible business value," he said. The partnership with Salesforce makes ERM best suited to lead companies through this process, assisting them in integrating sustainability into their operational and planning work on a day-to-day basis.

ERM has already proved its capability by successfully applying Net Zero Cloud to over a dozen clients from a variety of sectors, ranging from utilities and energy to technology and manufacturing. Such experience demonstrates ERM's capability to scale and drive outcomes on a global level, providing solutions customized to meet the unique sustainability challenges and opportunities confronting various industries.

From a technology perspective, Salesforce continues to consolidate its position in digital sustainability solutions. Prashanthi Sudhakar, Net Zero Cloud Head of Product at Salesforce, highlighted the platform's position in aligning digital transformation and sustainability. "At Salesforce, we think sustainability and digital transformation are two sides of the same coin. Net Zero Cloud allows businesses to connect, automate, and act on their sustainability data—putting insights into action," she said. She further added that the extended collaboration with ERM will help firms better achieve climate obligations while at the same time enhancing financial return on investment (ROI), resilience, and long-term strategic value.

This partnership is part of a larger movement of incorporating ESG information into business decision-making—not just as a compliance step, but as a strategic tool. The widened partnership between Salesforce and ERM demonstrates how business performance and ESG performance are more closely linked. By empowering businesses to respond to environmental data with accuracy and agility, the partnership helps to build a more sustainable and economically resilient future.

With the global business landscape increasingly complicated and expectations for sustainability increasing, the alliance between Salesforce and ERM is a model for what contemporary ESG integration should be. It marks a move towards a new age where sustainability is not a standalone objective but a building block of business innovation and expansion.