PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials)
PCAF is a global partnership that has developed the standard methodology for financial institutions to measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions associated with their loans and investments.
What is PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials)?
PCAF’s Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard provides asset-class-specific guidance for measuring financed emissions across listed equity, corporate bonds, business loans, project finance, commercial real estate, mortgages, motor vehicle loans, and sovereign debt. Over 400 financial institutions globally have committed to PCAF. The methodology assigns data quality scores to each calculation, encouraging progressive improvement from estimated to reported data.
Practical Examples
A bank implements PCAF methodology across its £50 billion lending portfolio, starting with the highest-emission sectors and progressively expanding coverage.
An asset manager uses PCAF’s data quality scoring system to identify where it needs better investee emissions data, prioritising engagement with high-emission, low-data companies.
How Climatise Helps
Climatise provides the corporate-level emissions data that financial institutions need to calculate their PCAF-aligned financed emissions.
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