Climate ALIGN monitors portfolio alignment with net-zero emissions by 2050
Climate ALIGN helps financial institutions assess the temperature alignment of current emissions reduction targets, commitments, investment portfolios, and lending portfolios.
Currently Available: Climate ALIGN Version 1.0
We now offer the Science Based Target initiative’s (SBTi) open source Temperature Scoring and Portfolio Coverage Tool ‘as a service’. We currently cover listed equity, corporate debt, sovereign debt & real-estate.
The approach is based on the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) open source Temperature Scoring and Portfolio Coverage Tool. Ortec Finance, together with Open Source Climate (OS-C) are the original developers of the open source code base.
Illustrative Visualization of the Temperature Score Outputs Per Company
Financial institutions can use Climate ALIGN V1.0 to:
- Develop GHG emissions reduction targets (potentially for official validation by the SBTi)
- Consistently monitor progress against set targets
- Develop engagement strategies
- Help with strategic security selection and allocation decisions
- Showcase net-zero alignment leadership
- Prepare for expected climate-related disclosure regulation
Webinar on Climate ALIGN
Get to know the full potential of Climate ALIGN in our introductory webinar and demo
Download the full Climate ALIGN brochure for more details
Take a look at all of the Climate & ESG Solutions in our Climate Compass overview.
If you would like to receive more information or have any questions, please contact us.
Contact
Willemijn Verdegaal
Co-Head Climate & ESG Solutions
Lisa Eichler
Co-Head Climate & ESG SolutionsRelated Insights
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22 September 2021AsianInvestor interviews Elske and Stefano: How to decompose complex portfolios and returns?AsianInvestor published an interview with Elske van de Burgt and Stefano Seung Jin Lee on How to decompose complex portfolios and returns.
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15 September 2021Insurers have room to improve their ALM: InsuranceERM interview with Hens SteehouwerInsuranceERM, Enterprise Risk Management Technology guide, interviewed Hens Steehouwer on insurance technology trends, concerns facing insurance companies, and innovation of ALM models.
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10 September 2021Willemijn Verdegaal is speaking at The Economist’s Climate Risk EuropeAligning a portfolio to net-zero targets does not necessarily mitigate all climate-related financial risks. What other material risks should you be addressing? What are the main risk drivers and what analysis tools can best quantify both portfolio temperature scores and financial risks? What are the strengths and limitations of low-carbon benchmarks?
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07 September 2021Ortec Finance COO Martijn Vos in CIO’s top 20 global most influential knowledge brokersEach year, CIO asks a varied group of respected chief investment officers and allocators which consultants and advisors have “done right by them” for the current markets.
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03 September 2021Don’t Shy Away from Extreme Weather, Act on ItLast month’s IPCC report should be a call to action for investors - an incentive to start by creating net zero aligned and climate resilient portfolios. Portfolios need to be adapted to extreme weather and a disorderly transition. It is wonderful to see that many of our clients have already started on this journey. However, thinking through the financial impacts of various climate risk scenarios and creating a net-zero roadmap may feel somewhat overwhelming.
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01 September 2021Investors Need to Focus on Climate ResilienceLast month’s IPCC report should be a call to action for investors - an incentive to start by creating net zero aligned and climate resilient portfolios. Portfolios need to be adapted to extreme weather and a disorderly transition. It is wonderful to see that many of our clients have already started on this journey. However, thinking through the financial impacts of various climate risk scenarios and creating a net-zero roadmap may feel somewhat overwhelming.
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21 June 2021Stargazing? Or have the NGFS and the Bank of England missed an opportunity to drive the race to net zero?‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’, wrote the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The oft-quoted phrase came to mind when reading the influential reports by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) – a group of 91 central banks and supervisors that came with its second iteration of climate scenarios – and the Bank of England’s (BoE) second iteration of its Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenarios (CBES), both published this month.
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16 June 2021The Road to COP26It has been a busy few weeks here in Europe. From international diplomacy and ESG disclosure requirements and taxation, government leaders have been on the same page to combat the climate crisis and setting a minimum percentage for corporate taxation.
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14 June 2021Green benchmarks don’t mitigate all climate risk, but they do shift capitalWillemijn Verdegaal will be speaking at RI Europe 2021 by Responsible Investor! This panel, on June 16, will be a deep-dive on: What financial/environmental changes are Paris-aligned and Climate Transition benchmarks driving?