Clarity AI rates climate pledges on Seven measures, reserving top score for full delivery. * Seven-dimension test: The Transition Credibility Assessment scores companies on emissions, technology, disclosure, targets, strategy, green CapEx and governance. * Performance over reporting: Strong disclosure can earn a Medium rating, but a High rating needs every sector performance criterion met. * Traceable evidence: Each rating links to its supporting evidence, often down to the quotation and page. Clarity AI, a technology platform for extra-financial intelligence, has launched a Transition Credibility Assessment for investors. The tool tests whether companies are making progress toward their climate goals. It measures them against their sector's decarbonization requirements and the evidence they report. Clarity AI says climate targets are widespread, but evidence of delivery remains uneven. Its research shows fewer than half of the world's highest-emitting companies disclose their green capital expenditure (CapEx). As a result, investors have limited visibility into how much those companies invest in the transition. "There is no shortage of climate targets. What investors need to understand is whether companies are taking the steps needed to meet them," said Alice Borgonovo, Responsible for Clarity AI's Climate Solutions. "A credible plan shows up in the evidence: in emissions, in investments and in the technologies a company deploys. We built the assessment to examine that evidence, sector by sector, and show investors exactly where it comes from." Quick anonymous worklife pollWhat's my daily work emissions burn, or savings? Poll closes: Oct 21, 20260 of 10 · | 2 min Before ESG News Corp. start Where do you work most days? ESG News Corp.'ll tailor your carbon estimate. Powered by ESG News Meanwhile, the UN Environment Programme's latest Emissions Gap Report projects 2.6°C of warming this century, even if national pledges are fully met. COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye, is expected to put more weight on implementation. So Clarity AI says investors will need to separate companies delivering on commitments from those falling short. Sector-Specific criteria. Clarity AI applies detailed criteria to high-impact sectors and a simplified approach, calibrated to sub-industry, for other companies. For a cement producer, progress may depend on cutting the clinker content of cement. For an electric utility, it may mean shifting generation toward lower-carbon sources. The methodology also draws on sector net zero pathways, the Transition Plan Taskforce Disclosure Recommendations and the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark. The assessment separates the quality of a company's reporting from its actual performance. Because each rating is traceable, investors can examine what supports it and where more evidence of progress is needed. Clarity AI did not disclose pricing, launch clients or how many companies the assessment covers. Why it matters. The launch adds a performance-based climate rating to Clarity AI's platform, built for investors' capital allocation and engagement decisions. Its page-level evidence trail gives clients a documented basis to challenge or defend each score. If investors adopt it for engagement with high emitters, it could become a recurring transition-risk data product Clarity AI sells into its existing investor client base. The stakeholders at a glance. | Company | Clarity AI, technology platform for extra-financial intelligence | | Launch | Transition Credibility Assessment | | Users | Investors making capital allocation and engagement decisions | | Dimensions assessed | Seven: emissions, technology, disclosure, targets, strategy, green CapEx, governance | | Rating rule | Disclosure can support Medium; High requires every sector performance criterion | | Frameworks used | Transition Plan Taskforce Disclosure Recommendations; Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark | | Evidence | Ratings traceable, in most cases to the quotation and page | | Key people | Alice Borgonovo, Responsible for Clarity AI's Climate Solutions | Subscribe & Follow for daily ESG insights. Join the Conversation: Follow ESG News on LinkedIn to engage with its global community of 50K+ sustainability leaders and C-suite executives.

ARIS appoints three senior leaders to help enterprises scale AI beyond the pilot stage. ARIS, the global leader in Process Context for Enterprise AI, today announced three new senior appointments as it builds momentum toward 2027 and accelerates its strategy to help organisations put AI to work at scale. Maxime Hambersin joins as Chief Product Officer, Dr Benjamin Krusche as Global Head of Strategy & Transformation, and Mark Jacobs as President and Go-to-Market Lead, Americas. The appointments further strengthen the leadership team built around CEO Guillaume Bacuvier and support the company's next phase of global growth. They come as ARIS advances its positioning around Process Context - giving AI agents the business understanding they need to operate effectively - while accelerating a product roadmap designed to help enterprises identify, deploy and scale AI against measurable business outcomes. As Chief Product Officer, Maxime Hambersin will lead ARIS's global product strategy and roadmap, with responsibility for shaping the next generation of the ARIS platform and translating the company's Process Context strategy into products that create measurable customer value. Hambersin joins ARIS from Docusign, where he held senior product leadership roles and most recently served as General Manager for France. Prior to Docusign, Hambersin spent 12 years at Accenture, ultimately serving as Managing Director and leading major transformation programs for global banking and capital-markets organisations. Dr. Benjamin Krusche joins ARIS as Global Head of Strategy & Transformation, responsible for setting and executing the company's strategic agenda and working closely with Bacuvier and the leadership team on key company initiatives. Krusche joins from Clarity AI, the AI-powered sustainability technology company, where he was Head of Strategy. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Bain & Company, rising to Associate Partner and co-leading Bain's EMEA Agile Practice. "We have set an ambitious target for ARIS - to make Process Context the foundation that all Fortune 500 and G2000 enterprises rely on to put AI to work and create measurable new business value," said Guillaume Bacuvier, CEO of ARIS. "The next phase is about execution. Maxime brings the product vision and experience to translate that strategy into innovation our customers can put to work, while Ben brings exceptional strategic and transformation expertise to help us focus the business on where we can win and accelerate our own transformation." ARIS has also appointed Mark Jacobs as President, The Americas, strengthening its global go-to-market leadership. Jacobs brings extensive enterprise technology and sales leadership experience, including senior positions at Celonis, C3.ai, Oracle, Rimini Street and Adobe/Marketo, and will focus on expanding relationships with major enterprises and helping customers translate investment in process context and AI into measurable business value in the key Americas market. "Enterprise AI is changing the conversation we are having with customers. Leaders aren't looking for more technology for technology's sake - they want to understand where AI can create meaningful value and how they can deploy it without losing control," said Fadi Naffah, Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, ARIS. "Mark understands that value conversation exceptionally well. He brings deep experience working with some of the world's largest enterprises and building high-performing teams around customer outcomes."