Adopted Standards and Further References
Sustainable Finance Standards
The sustainability related standards currently adopted / implemented in Equinox are based principally on the following references:
GHG Protocol Standards
- The GHG Protocol for Projects (The GHG Protocol for Project Accounting, 2005)
- GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance (An amendment to the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, 2015)
- Fong, W. K., M. Sotos, M. Doust, S. Schultz, A. Marques, and C. Deng-Beck (2014). Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories: An Accounting and Reporting Standard for Cities. World Resources Institute. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; Local Governments for Sustainability ICLEI. 1, 1–176.
PCAF Standards
- PCAF Emissions Accounting and Reporting for Residential Mortgages
- PCAF Emissions Accounting and Reporting for Project Finance
Other Sustainable Finance
- Equator Principles for Project Finance
Regulatory Standards and Other Resources
- BIS/EBA Standardized Credit Risk assessment of Project Finance
- The EFDB Database
- The TED Database
Open Risk White Papers
The following Open Risk White Papers provide conceptual context or other implementation details underpinning the Equinox platform.
- No 14: Integrated energy accounting using relational databases (OpenRiskWP14_190523 PDF)
- No 12: Deep-Linking Financial and Energy Accounting (OpenRiskWP12_230922 PDF)
- No 11: Sustainable Portfolio Management: Attribution and Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (OpenRiskWP11_021221)
- No 10: Connecting the Dots: Concentration, diversity, inequality and sparsity in economic networks (OpenRiskWP10_300621)
- No 8: Connecting the Dots: Economic Networks as Property Graphs (OpenRiskWP08_131219)