Moving Beyond the Baseline

At this stage in your journey, you have likely built a carbon inventory and calculated Scopes 1, 2, and possibly 3 emissions data at least once. Great job! But once you’ve collected the data for the first time, what’s next? As you move further along in your carbon journey, it becomes critical to review your data before setting targets, dive deeper into regulatory requirements, and ensure your processes are optimized to improve data quality and set you up for assurance. Click through the resources to learn more.

Carbon Clarity: The Path to Accurate Reporting

Without a solid foundation of reliable data, any potential decarbonization strategy risks being ineffective or, worse, counterproductive. These steps can help investors improve the quality of carbon data.

Understanding Carbon Data Assurance

Third-party assurance is becoming an increasingly important requirement in emerging regulations. For firms new to the process, here’s how to ensure your organization is audit-ready.

Simplifying Reporting with Technology

As the need for climate action grows, so does the expectation for companies to measure, manage, and reduce their GHG emissions. See how technology can help improve efficiencies and data quality.

Understanding Financed Emissions

For investors, financed emissions are the most important category of Scope 3 emissions to measure, analyze, and disclose. One study estimates that the 18 largest US banks and asset managers were responsible for around 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2020—or roughly a third of the US’ national GHG emissions for the same period. Read the article below or listen to the episode for an overview of the basics of financed emissions and how GPs across the private markets can track them.

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02 Beyond the Baseline

We’ve initiated some measures but need to optimize our processes.

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In today's landscape, effectively managing carbon emissions data is imperative for investment firms and private companies to get ahead. Carbon accounting can seem complex, but the right tools can help streamline the process.

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01 Getting Started

We’re new to carbon accounting and need to understand the basics.

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03 Setting Targets

We’ve collected data and are ready to set science-aligned targets.

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