The PCAF Standard is widely regarded as the leading global framework for these disclosures, providing a harmonized approach to measuring emissions across loans, investments, and other financial activities.
By joining the PCAF Accredited Partner Program, Perse aligns its platform and methodologies with this globally recognized standard, enabling banks and lenders to strengthen the consistency and credibility of their carbon accounting and reporting.
Perse enables banks and lenders to use actual, meter-level energy consumption data when assessing emissions linked to property portfolios. This helps reduce reliance on estimated proxies, such as EPCs, and supports more accurate portfolio-level emissions reporting in line with PCAF methodologies.
As banks respond to increasing regulatory scrutiny and investor demand for credible climate disclosures, access to auditable, asset-level data is becoming increasingly important. Perse’s approach supports financial institutions in applying standardized methodologies for measuring emissions associated with financial activities across commercial and residential real estate portfolios. The use of measured energy data can also support portfolio analysis, sustainability-linked lending frameworks, and internal risk and reporting processes.
Bart van Lunteren, Accredited Partner Lead at PCAF, said:
“We're excited to welcome Perse to PCAF's accredited partner network. High-quality data is essential for financial institutions working to measure and disclose emissions associated with their financial activities. Perse’s use of actual, meter-level energy consumption data supports more transparent and reliable financed emissions accounting, helping banks apply the PCAF Standard with greater confidence and consistency.”
Jane Lucy, CEO at Perse, said:
“With the UK being one of the world’s leading financial centers, it is crucial that we also lead the way in accountability for financial emissions. We are pleased to be the first UK company accredited by PCAF in recognition of the value and trust that can be placed in our market-leading services.”
By joining PCAF’s Accredited Partner network, Perse can help banks move beyond modelled assumptions toward real-world energy data, unlocking more precise risk pricing, improved portfolio transparency and scalable green finance origination.
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About PCAF
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials was launched globally in September 2019. Currently, 700+ financial institutions have subscribed to the PCAF initiative. PCAF signatories work together to jointly develop the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry to measure and disclose the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their financial activities.
About Perse
Perse provides market leading data and solutions powering the path to net zero, specializing in embedded carbon related to utilities. Having processed more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 through its platform and identified more than £75 million savings via carbon reduction pathways, it only requires an address to identify and connect to any of the UK’s 30 million gas and electricity meters. It is also responsible for gaining industry approval to recognize financial institutions’ legitimate interest to this data for carbon reporting, without requiring occupant consent.
