11 November 2020 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. 0000034199 00000 n The public consultation closed on July 18, 2021. William Anderson - Bank of America Jack Owens - COP 26 Private Finance Hub Portfolio Alignment . The tool supports calculation of emission projections, temperature scores and portfolio reporting. 0000005099 00000 n 0000002485 00000 n 2iU^! 0000007454 00000 n It helps produce transparent, more standardised, more comparable, and therefore more useful, portfolio alignment metrics. This requires forward looking, robust, decision useful and comparable metrics. 0000006145 00000 n hbbd``b` *b@BHV@%Ha`bd@ [ 0000001448 00000 n %%EOF This requires forward looking, robust, decision useful and comparable metrics. 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. 0000005177 00000 n xref 0000000896 00000 n This report provided a critical assessment of the strengths and trade-offs of the options available when using forward-looking metrics . 0000029542 00000 n 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. 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. xb```b``M``e``e`@ Q 8| al'9Y99/ep The website you are going to is governed by different terms and conditions and HSBC Group is not responsible for its content. 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. The report provides a critical assessment of different approaches on a spectrum of sophistication, with a particular focus on portfolio warming metrics. endstream endobj 2937 0 obj<>/Size 2913/Type/XRef>>stream Developing standardised and consistent thinking around metrics to measure alignment is helpful for the financial sector to accelerate the pace of measuring climate alignment. 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. This report is the product of and reflects the collective work of the Portfolio Alignment Team. First, financed emissions are evaluated in the context of a carbon budget or emissions trajectory. 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 Portfolio Alignment Team) at the request of the TCFD. 0 610 0 obj <>stream Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Assessing the position of companies and portfolios on the path to Net Zero (2020). 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. The Portfolio Alignment Prototype focuses on four highest emitting sectors: Electric Utilities, Steel, Oil & Gas and Automobiles. %PDF-1.7 % Portfolio alignment allows investors to mimic the structure (coin distribution) of a strategy account balance. A group of experts established by Mark Carney, in his capacity as UN special envoy for climate and finance, has finalised best practice guidance on portfolio alignment metrics to support a new recommendation for investors from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This report is also available in the following language: . 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. 0000006931 00000 n 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. 0000003222 00000 n Portfolio alignment metrics help evaluate whether investing or lending is in line with a pathway to a 0000042868 00000 n 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. 0000004541 00000 n 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. 0000002513 00000 n The next site will open in a separate window or tab. 6Kx0q'^? 0000000836 00000 n endstream endobj 592 0 obj <>/Metadata 41 0 R/OCProperties<>/OCGs[603 0 R]>>/Outlines 58 0 R/PageLayout/SinglePage/Pages 589 0 R/StructTreeRoot 75 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 593 0 obj <>/Font<>/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endobj 594 0 obj <>stream 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. 243 0 obj <> endobj xref 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 . 0000006578 00000 n Dr i 0000004509 00000 n 0000011734 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. %%EOF Assessing the position of companies and portfolios on the path to net zero, Portfolio Alignment Team, COP 26 Private Finance Hub. Learn how to align your portfolio from this article. 0 0000002665 00000 n William Anderson - Bank of America Jack Owens - COP 26 Private Finance Hub 0000027224 00000 n 0000001851 00000 n h[O0yw;R (#@&xmDTIi\T M%h$M 0000042933 00000 n 0000007672 00000 n 591 0 obj <> endobj Measuring Portfolio Alignment | Q4 2020 | Page 1 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. %PDF-1.6 % These tools will also help financial institutions to report and demonstrate their net-zero efforts to the wider society. A TCFD-aligned framework for best practise in the construction of portfolio alignment metrics. 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 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. This portfolio assessment system is being phased out and a new performance-based assessment is 0000007416 00000 n 0000004791 00000 n Portfolio Alignment Team, COP 26 Private Finance Hub. 0000052742 00000 n 0000005053 00000 n For investors and lenders, this means assessing risks and opportunities in the transition to a net zero economy, and also demonstrating progress against stated targets to stakeholders. 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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. ep=]3)*8,58l4C#s) 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. DISCLAIMER This report is the product of and reflects the collective work of the Portfolio Alignment Team. 0000003648 00000 n Trustees have flexibility to select the type of portfolio alignment metric which best reflects their scheme-specific circumstances. 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Financial institutions are moving towards identifying the alignment of their financial provision to net zero outcomes. Background. . 0000003555 00000 n 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. trailer The methods for measuring portfolio alignment are new and still evolving. 0000004032 00000 n 0000001706 00000 n Countries are increasingly committing to net-zero emissions goals as part of climate planning. It is also intended to contribute to upcoming alignment discussions that are likely to follow in the run-up to COP26. From June 7 to July 18 the TCFD held a consultation on forward - looking metrics, targets, and transition plans. 0000000016 00000 n CDP Worldwide is regulated by the Charity Commission. 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. Data is on-boarded and accessed via an open source data infrastructure, OS-Climate's 'Data Commons' supported by Red Hat. Portfolio-alignment tools can resolve the three challenges of the financed-emissions approach. 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. 0000031860 00000 n Guided by a leadership team of seasoned professionals, the firm is strongly placed to provide organizational expertise across multiple industries. 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