Normative carbon accounting software

Normative sells carbon accounting software for Scope 1, 2 and 3, built, it says, on its own implementation of the GHG Protocol standards and sold with a named climate adviser on every account (normative.io).

In September 2026 Normative and Greenly announced that they are merging.

This page sets Normative’s description of itself beside SECR and UK SRS S2; we have not tested the product and give it no rating.

Normative calls itself a carbon accounting platform that helps companies calculate, report and reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

Its pricing page describes the calculation engine as a proprietary implementation of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, using a hybrid of spend and activity data.

It describes a database of more than 349,000 emission factors, over 18,000 material and activity types and coverage of more than 200 countries.

Features it lists include guided data upload with quality checks by its analysts, data dimensions for slicing results by department or location, a memory that re-applies earlier categorisations, a financed-emissions feature and automated land-use (FLAG) calculations.

The Premium package adds supplier engagement, supplier surveys and reduction planning.

Its home page puts a named climate strategy adviser on every account at the centre of the offer, describing the adviser as an extension of the customer’s team.

In September 2026 Normative published a merger announcement with Greenly, which says the combined group will support 4,000 customers in more than 30 countries.

These are Normative’s statements about itself.

Normative says its hybrid method gives full emissions coverage across all scopes, and that its analysts check uploaded data.

It says it applies region-specific emission factors; for UK activity data, ask which DESNZ factor set is applied and whether the set follows the year in which the activity mostly fell.

UK SRS S2 requires location-based Scope 2 (¶29(a)(v)) and a disclosure of which Scope 3 categories are included after all fifteen are considered (¶¶B32–B33).

The GHG Protocol’s Scope 3 Standard requires exclusions to be disclosed and justified; a hybrid method that fills gaps with spend data should still show which categories rest on estimates.

For banks and investors, Normative lists financed emissions under Scope 3 category 15, which UK SRS S2 ¶29A allows to be limited to financed emissions.

The Scope 3 rules are set out on Scope 3 under UK SRS.

Normative says every calculation is traceable from source data to output and explainable to an auditor.

It describes its engine as having been evaluated by TÜV SÜD.

Its own account of 10 October 2025 says the engine voluntarily underwent an independent evaluation against ISO/IEC 25051 (software product quality) and the GHG Protocol, and that TÜV SÜD confirmed it met TÜV SÜD’s evaluation requirements.

That is an evaluation of the software, not a certification, and not assurance over any customer’s report; TÜV SÜD offers the same evaluation to other carbon software vendors.

In the UK no company must obtain sustainability assurance; listed companies in scope of the FCA rules state whether they did, and to which standard.

What UK assurance involves is on UK SRS assurance.

The builder beside this text lists one request per requirement for the regimes you report under, each with its provision.

For Normative, the requests most likely to separate a demonstration from a description are the SECR limb mapping and the Scope 3 category record.

The full register is on sustainability software.

A fictional buyer asks Normative to demonstrate how a corrected factor changes a reported figure.

Normative's September 2026 Greenly announcement is a reason to ask about contractual and operational continuity rather than assume product changes.