0000004032 00000 n 0 %%EOF 0000000896 00000 n This will require common, comparable metrics that meet the following criteria: This report presents a critical assessment of the strengths and trade-offs of existing alignment measurement options to climate goals and is an important contribution to the debate. 0000004986 00000 n Portfolio alignment metrics help evaluate whether investing or lending is in line with a pathway to a 0000006931 00000 n 0000011051 00000 n This portfolio assessment system is being phased out and a new performance-based assessment is %PDF-1.6 % In The Alignment Cookbook, a report published by Institut Louis Bachelier about portfolio alignment, the authors write that "multiple layers of uncertainties compound themselves at each step of a temperature alignment methodology" and that ITR metrics could "create disproportionate expectations and misunderstanding" on behalf of non-expert users. The website you are going to is governed by different terms and conditions and HSBC Group is not responsible for its content. Financial institutions are moving towards identifying the alignment of their financial provision to net zero outcomes. Measuring Portfolio Alignment | Q4 2020 | Page 1 The proposed enhancements in today's report should help provide financial institutions with the guidance they need to implement credible and easy-to-use tools to navigate the net-zero transition and make more . xA 04r\GcwzC. 0000002993 00000 n This note serves as theSBTi's formal response to the" P r opose d G ui dance on C l i mate -r e l ate d M et r i cs, Tar get s, and Tr ansi t i on . 0000002146 00000 n Learn how to align your portfolio from this article. 0000052742 00000 n This requires forward looking, robust, decision useful and comparable metrics. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily represent the views of other institutions that members of the Portfolio Alignment Team are affiliated with. Dr i The views expressed in this report do not necessarily represent the views of other institutions that members of the Portfolio Alignment Team are affiliated with. %PDF-1.7 % startxref ]WLyae~n-rW9dgTsj(3ym[8q_"O}T*5Lt7l2\pch0LR!SGb`0qAg"+KC(: hVH;Ii ) md`@l6HA d002. 0000001851 00000 n 243 0 obj <> endobj xref 0000000016 00000 n Developing standardised and consistent thinking around metrics to measure alignment is helpful for the financial sector to accelerate the pace of measuring climate alignment. 0000001448 00000 n The methods for measuring portfolio alignment are new and still evolving. The report outlined the PAT's views on . 0000042933 00000 n William Anderson - Bank of America Jack Owens - COP 26 Private Finance Hub In conjunction with this consultation, the Portfolio alignment Team (PAT) issued a report in 2020 titled Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Assessing the Position of companies and Portfolios on the Path to Net Zero. 0000000836 00000 n 0000008372 00000 n Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Assessing the position of companies and portfolios on the path to Net Zero (2020). !0KK#s 6LgAL`KA\26L~FT Ne#0, ZQJp 1X! In response, the financial sector is also working on how to better manage the risks and opportunities related to delivering an economy wide low-carbon transition. 0000003995 00000 n 0 0000004298 00000 n iqostm46OU ~|@: 0000002513 00000 n 0000004509 00000 n These tools will also help financial institutions to report and demonstrate their net-zero efforts to the wider society. To set out the goals of the Portfolio Alignment Measurement workstream, outline our work plan for this year, and identify remaining barriers to adoption of portfolio alignment metrics. Portfolio Alignment Team) at the request of the TCFD. At its core, any assessment of the position of a company or portfolio on the transition path is, fundamentally, an assessment of their performance relative to a benchmark a fraction of the carbon budget allotted to them. Proposed Guidance on Climate-related Metrics, Targets, and Transition Plans and the Portfolio Alignment Team's Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Technical Supplement. CDP Worldwide is regulated by the Charity Commission. 0000006145 00000 n Assessing the position of companies and portfolios on the path to net zero, Portfolio Alignment Team, COP 26 Private Finance Hub. Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Enhancement, Convergence, and Adoption aims to offer guidance on multiple technical aspects, structured around 9 'key judgments'. the portfolio alignment team was formed by the un special envoy for climate and finance, mark carney, to respond to growing investor and lender interest in measuring portfolios' relative alignment to the objectives of the paris agreement, and to advance industry efforts to promote widespread adoption of consistent, robust, and decision-useful S1a^"`j1c8?VaIF1n.Kl$~GRQG[EA*^0*F;!#0@2][]@L7K7_#F"%#.#eOLL- '#>Gcp. To share an initial view of potential enhancements to the Key Design Judgements as outlined in the 2021 Portfolio Alignment Team (PAT) report. The Portfolio Alignment Team was formed to respond to growing investor and lender interest in measuring portfolios' relative alignment to the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to advance industry efforts to promote widespread adoption of a consistent, robust and decision useful approach. The report provides a critical assessment of different approaches on a spectrum of sophistication, with a particular focus on portfolio warming metrics. As part of that consultation, the TCFD also released a Technical Supplement on Measuring Portfolio Alignment, written by the Portfolio Alignment Team, involving private sector representatives and the COP 26 Private Finance Hub, and led by David Blood. 11 November 2020 xb```b``M``e``e`@ Q 8| al'9Y99/ep 0000007672 00000 n 0000040197 00000 n 0000007133 00000 n 0000002665 00000 n As an increasing number of countries legislate for net zero, investors and lenders will need tools to identify risks and opportunities in the transition to a net zero economy. The Portfolio Alignment Team was formed to respond to growing investor and lender interest in measuring portfolios relative alignment to the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to advance industry efforts to promote widespread adoption of a consistent, robust and decision useful approach. 0000042868 00000 n DISCLAIMER This report is the product of and reflects the collective work of the Portfolio Alignment Team. Portfolio-alignment tools can resolve the three challenges of the financed-emissions approach. This report is the product of and reflects the collective work of the Portfolio Alignment Team. The SBTi has been consulted by the TCFD's PortfolioAlignment Team as part of the original report onportfolio alignment and as part of the creation ofthe latest Technical Supplement. Respondents widely supported the proposed guidance (77%) that all financial institutions should describe the alignment of their activities with a well below 2C scenario, and to incorporate forward -looking metrics in their target-setting processes. It helps produce transparent, more standardised, more comparable, and therefore more useful, portfolio alignment metrics. 6Kx0q'^? 0000022559 00000 n 0000085319 00000 n 2913 26 591 0 obj <> endobj The report sets out their key building blocks, initial views on potential best practice, and identifies the data needs and methodological questions that require further work to make these metrics robust. If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below *CDP Worldwide, registered charity number 1122330, a company limited by guarantee 05013650, headquartered at CDP Worldwide, 60 Great Tower Street, London EC3R 5AZ, United Kingdom. 2iU^! 0000005053 00000 n 0000031860 00000 n From June 7 to July 18 the TCFD held a consultation on forward - looking metrics, targets, and transition plans. 0000001988 00000 n While many tools exist, there is still ambivalence around the best metric to assess alignment and comparing the resulting outputs, especially implied temperature rise metrics. Regulators are working on improving disclosure, for example the UK government recently published a statement making reporting according to the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure mandatory by 2025. 0000002485 00000 n 0000009016 00000 n 2938 0 obj<>stream endstream endobj 2937 0 obj<>/Size 2913/Type/XRef>>stream h[O0yw;R (#@&xmDTIi\T M%h$M 0000010334 00000 n Author: Portfolio Alignment Team Industry Group: Financial Guidance / Tool - 2020 As an increasing number of countries legislate for net zero, investors and lenders will need tools to identify risks and opportunities in the transition to a net zero economy. To receive updates about the platform and its launch, sign up to the newsletter. 610 0 obj <>stream 243 30 MhL]MU.pBk;whq(wKW4JL' y3r^VKaJITkG3[?itf4q$\~m:X9'C:v|tuLqY4ArS0;Fe m=Tx&G !x698C&MtA_s$[`{S_~"7Z-lGEZ>f_zUu3\j First, financed emissions are evaluated in the context of a carbon budget or emissions trajectory. 0000009603 00000 n 0000003555 00000 n The public consultation closed on July 18, 2021. ?cOixr K|=H|xsIM2AvZ%A-4aS$V-WnO8FQJF2i}=lyRkR@9\3?lZzFUOf 0000007454 00000 n The Portfolio Alignment Team (PAT), an independent expert team comprised of major financial institutions including HSBC, BlackRock and HM Treasury's COP26 Private Finance Hub, has published new guidance on portfolio alignment metrics. 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The report reviews seven leading methods: including Arabesque, CDP-WWF Temperature Rating Methodology, Lombard Odier, MSCI, Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA), Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), and S&P Trucost. 0000001887 00000 n 0000004541 00000 n 0000001706 00000 n xref 0000003222 00000 n In June 2021, the Portfolio Alignment Team (PAT) released a draft version of its report Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Technical Supplement for consultation in response to a request from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) for information on portfolio alignment approaches. 0000034199 00000 n If the investor's portfolio is different from the chosen strategy portfolio, some deals may be skipped because the system is . Portfolio alignment increases copy trading success rate. 0000004134 00000 n The tool supports calculation of emission projections, temperature scores and portfolio reporting. Portfolio Alignment Team, COP 26 Private Finance Hub. ep=]3)*8,58l4C#s) 0000006578 00000 n Data is on-boarded and accessed via an open source data infrastructure, OS-Climate's 'Data Commons' supported by Red Hat. Trustees have flexibility to select the type of portfolio alignment metric which best reflects their scheme-specific circumstances. Portfolio Alignment . William Anderson - Bank of America Jack Owens - COP 26 Private Finance Hub The next site will open in a separate window or tab. 0000004412 00000 n The portfolio alignment metric will measure the extent to which a scheme's investments are aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. hbbd``b` *b@BHV@%Ha`bd@ [ It aims to serve as a basis for discussion in the industry on the approaches to measurement so that by COP 26, investors and creditors can robustly answer how their clients money is invested for the transition. This report provided a critical assessment of the strengths and trade-offs of the options available to measure the alignment of financial portfolios with climate goals. Countries are increasingly committing to net-zero emissions goals as part of climate planning. These are some of the questions that the workstream aimed to tackle, culminating in the publication, last month, of a significant new report with timely practical case studies. 0000001677 00000 n 0000005177 00000 n L)5jhDGHI5H*4@ 5D6L! a0S@L@Z03pRHnx=Q1?L!X93-baQ``0 ,M10Mx v pebOI@Zaa>XUr^ This helps institutions plot their course toward the Paris Agreement's goals. This requires forward looking, robust, decision useful and comparable metrics. Portfolio alignment tools are used to generate metrics to determine the overall level of alignment of a portfolio, by assessing the performance of its individual companies. Project Portfolio alignment has an explicitly directive and strategic goal in aligning existing projects to business strategies and ensuring continuous alignment so as to continue investing in the properly aligned projects and portfolios. hb```}'@9^`x2IAEu6s/:Jmgq[6`Be/g+}m#5h`m``h``t J AL#0]@309X6FUSN0Zi2D0;D213 <]>> Portfolio alignment allows investors to mimic the structure (coin distribution) of a strategy account balance. A TCFD-aligned framework for best practise in the construction of portfolio alignment metrics. This alignment study was conducted on the basis of information obtained on the 2004-2005 Portfolio Assessment in July 2006 on the state portfolio-based English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics (math) alternate assessments (AAs) for grades 3 through 8. the portfolio alignment team was formed by the un special envoy for climate and finance, mark carney, to respond to growing investor and lender interest in measuring portfolios' relative alignment to the objectives of the paris agreement, and to advance industry efforts to promote widespread adoption of consistent, robust, and decision-useful trailer The views expressed in this report do not necessarily represent the views of other institutions that members of the Portfolio Alignment Team are affiliated with. In conjunction with this consultation, the Portfolio alignment Team (PAT) issued a report in 2020 titled Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Assessing the Position of companies and Portfolios on the Path to Net Zero. This report is also available in the following language: . 0000000016 00000 n This report provided a critical assessment of the strengths and trade-offs of the options available when using forward-looking metrics . %PDF-1.4 % 0000029542 00000 n 0000011734 00000 n '*82lbym(Y TAXFN' 0000004297 00000 n %%EOF It is also intended to contribute to upcoming alignment discussions that are likely to follow in the run-up to COP26. The Portfolio Alignment Prototype focuses on four highest emitting sectors: Electric Utilities, Steel, Oil & Gas and Automobiles. The report is designed to support the TCFD Portfolio Alignment Team and the broader regulatory community in moving towards harmonization of portfolio alignment and implied temperature rise methodologies. 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