PCAF Project Finance

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials proposed methodologies (PCAF (2020), The Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry.) for attributing GHG Emissions to diverse financial contracts.

The workflows for PCAF methodologies implemented in Equinox are documented below. For the methodologies themselves consult the corresponding PCAF documentation or the Open Risk Manual Entries

The PCAF Methodology for Project Finance is an attribution and reporting methodology for Project Finance Portfolios

Workflow Steps

The following steps replicate the PCAF Project Finance workflow

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Further Reading and References

• Sustainable Portfolio Management
• List of standards, white papers and other resources

Check out other Equinox use cases and Workflows

• The GHG Scope 2 Workflow focuses on Scope 2 (purchased electricity) accounting and reporting.
• The Green Public Procurement Workflow that supports analysis conforming to the data models of the European Union TED platform.
• The CIRIS Workflow for compiling a City-wide emissions report
• The PCAF Mortgages Workflow for compling the emissions profile of a portfolio of mortgages (loans secured against real estate with measurable GHG emissions).
• The GHG Project Workflow that focuses on individual Project impact analysis (thus this is an example that does not need involve a portfolio).
• The Emission Factor Database Workflow illustrates working with reference data (in this case the IPCC emissions factor database)
• The EBA Scorecard for Project Finance implements a standardized credit scorecard for Project Finance