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Important
The 2025 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2025 to March 2026. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Sustainability Manager.
Overview
Microsoft Sustainability Manager empowers organizations to measure and accelerate their sustainability goals across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. It enables sustainability teams to collect, analyze, and report data with precision, supporting compliance, transparency, and strategic decision-making.
In this release wave, Microsoft Sustainability Manager delivers a set of enhancements that drive greater accuracy, flexibility, and impact. New capabilities enable deeper insights and more efficient reporting for sustainability initiatives.
Enhancements for the upcoming wave include:
- Allocate sustainability data into subsets to show environmental impact, so teams spot high-impact areas and prioritize improvements.
- Support date ranges for emission factor mappings to improve the precision of emissions calculations and ensure accuracy and compliance in emissions reporting.
- Expand metric support in calculation models to calculate energy metrics and custom sustainability scenarios with advanced modeling, aggregations, and joins. This helps broaden sustainability reporting and lets organizations track a wider range of metrics.
- Calculate product carbon footprints using bills of materials, emission factors, and other assessments to support regulatory compliance.
- Track grid emissions to show electricity grid mix and renewable energy percentages more easily, improving reporting transparency.
- Make data collection generally available so sustainability practitioners can gather and track data from stakeholders and integrate it into Microsoft Sustainability Manager on time and accurately.
- Lock or unlock reporting periods at the organizational unit level to give sustainability teams precise control over data entry windows without affecting other units, and to prevent accidental or unauthorized changes after submission deadlines.
- Include snapshots of calculation inputs and results in the data trail to make it easier to trace emissions calculation history for audits and compliance.
- Update Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) templates to include optional and recommended requirements across all topic and sector standards.
Investment areas
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Sustainability Manager below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.