From reporting to reinvestment, what was shared at the Keepers x Klappir morning session

​On the morning of 22 April, Klappir and Keepers brought together a group of sustainability professionals in Copenhagen, for a breakfast conversation about what comes after the compliance sprint. The event was co-hosted by Isabelle Broddén of Klappir and Liza Zozula Grønborg from Keepers. ​Rasmus Christian Jørgensen, Head of ESG at M. Goldschmidt Ejendomme, and Pelle Pedersen, Head of ESG at C.W. Obel, spoke openly about how they use the platform and services in practice.

​Omnibus changed the scope. The work is the same

The EU Omnibus proposal, published in February 2025, has reduced the number of companies in scope for CSRD by around 80% and cut the number of required data points by around 60%. For companies that have invested in resource and sustainability data infrastructure over the past two years, the question is no longer “how to collect the data?” It has shifted towards what to do with the data now that the compliance deadline pressure has lifted.

The one constant in this continuous trend of regulation shifts and reconsiderations is the documentation and workflow requirements that remain in place regardless of scope. Audit processes demand the same rigour they always have, and companies that built their data infrastructure with assurance in mind are finding that the investment remains sound.

Liza, Director and head of ESG at Keepers CFO Services, shared some insights into the focus of sustainability work post Omnibus:

• DMA remains the foundation of sustainability work as demand for data-driven decision-making to inform investments and strategy rises.

• Reporting is not going anywhere, and building data work that is adaptable to changes with strong documentation and workflow is essential. A new voluntary standard, expected to sit between VSME and ESRS, is anticipated from the EU, with some foreseeing its arrival early in the summer of 2026.

• For companies outside the revised mandatory scope, that emerging standard is becoming the practical reference point for what to report and why.

• Investor expectations have not softened in response to the regulatory changes.

Across the table, participants noted that sustainable finance requirements and ESG-linked loan conditions remain in place, and that the investment community is maintaining its own data requirements independent of the CSRD's requirements.

​What companies are doing with the data now

Reducing heating costs:

Three customer examples anchored the conversation. An Icelandic municipality managing 25 schools noticed that the heating for one school did not show the usual dip during the summer. Someone had forgotten to turn it off. A simple reminder the following year produced a 70% saving over the same period and avoided approximately €10,000 in costs, a result that needs no sustainability framing.

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Growing impact, transparency, and data exchange capability:

A hotel chain shifted from portfolio-level to per-hotel, per-stay emissions tracking. This move improved B2B relationships and attracted new business customers that competitors using only aggregate data could not reach. Here, sustainability data became a commercial differentiation.

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Building pilot experiments for data-driven decision-making:

A production company used Klappir to model four transport options after a materiality assessment flagged transport as the main emissions driver. The tool's modelling showed switching to electric trucks could reduce emissions by 67% before any operational change, positioning Klappir as a decision-support, not a reporting, tool.

Driving resource efficiency with a modular software approach

Rasmus Christian Jørgensen, Head of ESG at M. Goldschmidt Ejendomme, manages a portfolio of 170,000 m² valued at DKK 7bn. Although the company is outside the revised CSRD scope after the Omnibus changes, it still informs strategy on the DMA work they carried with Klappir while they were reporting under CSRD. It now primarily uses the Klappir Platform to calculate Scope 1–3 emissions data.

​C.W. Obel, a 238-year-old Danish investment company owned by the Obel Family Foundation, was also represented at the event. A thread running through both customer accounts was the architecture of their software setups.

Neither is relying on a single system. Modular approaches, combining a core data infrastructure with specialist tools for specific functions, are becoming the practical norm, and the conversations in the room reflected that. The question is no longer which platform to use, but how to connect the ones you have so the data layer is coherent across them.

​To software or not to software? Where does Klappir fit in this evolving landscape?

One of the clearest signals from the morning was a shift in who was using the platform's data. Where sustainability managers were the primary users during the early days, and the compliance (CSRD) build phase, finance functions moved in as reporting requirements sharpened. Now, a third wave is emerging: engineers, machinists and operational teams finding value in the same data layer for day-to-day decisions.

The use cases from the Keepers x Klappir event suggest that compliance was the starting point, not the ceiling. What companies do with sustainability data turns out to be as varied as the decisions they need to make.