ESG & Sustainability
Available nowESG Essentials · 1.1
ESG Essentials is a pragmatic starter set of Environmental, Social, and Governance disclosures: the questions investors, customers, and partners increasingly ask, without the weight of a full ESG audit. It is Keel-authored content — every requirement is Keel’s own wording — whose social-responsibility coverage was checked against the core subjects of ISO 26000:2010, ISO’s guidance on social responsibility, used as a checklist for what a responsible-business baseline should think about. ISO 26000 states no requirements of its own, so nobody is ever certified against it; ESG Essentials gives you requirements you can evidence and score.
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requirements in Keel’s authored baseline
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Scope
How much of the standard Keel models
This is a Keel-defined composite rather than a published standard, so there is no external leaf count it could be complete or incomplete against. Keel sets the scope, and the requirement count below is Keel’s own baseline.
- Authored in Keel
- 49 requirements
- Defined by the standard
- Not applicable — no external standard
Keel publishes this for every framework it ships, complete or not, so a readiness percentage can be read against a denominator you can see. Compare every framework
Who it is for
Who needs ESG Essentials?
- Companies fielding ESG questions in procurement or diligence
- Teams building a credible baseline before a formal framework
- Founders who want governance and sustainability documented, not improvised
What Keel does
How Keel helps with ESG Essentials
- A curated ESG disclosure set you can adopt incrementally
- The same evidence engine you use for security, applied to ESG
- A shareable posture so you can answer ESG asks quickly
Collect once, comply everywhere
ESG Essentials shares canonical controls with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404, ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 and others in the catalog. Implement one of those controls and it counts toward every framework it satisfies, so adding ESG Essentials rarely means starting from scratch.
Shares canonical controls with
- ISO/IEC 27001
- CIS Critical Security Controls
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-171
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- COPPA
- Google Play Families
- Amazon Appstore Child-Directed Apps
- Apple App Store Kids Category
- ISO 9001
- AI Governance Essentials
- ISO/IEC 42001
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- EU AI Act
- US Employment Law - Federal Baseline
Other frameworks: ISO/IEC 27001 · CIS Critical Security Controls · PCI DSS · SOC 2 · SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404 · NIST Cybersecurity Framework · All frameworks