Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for use in calculating, collecting, compiling, analyzing, estimating and evaluating statistics, data and other sources of information to determine and report sustainable environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark metrics and related information, and to measure and report on compliance with such ESG metrics; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for commodity producers to measure the physical properties of various commodities and the environmental attributes of those properties to create a digital representation of their commodities, and to transact the digital representation of the production and environmental attributes of the commodities