The PCAF Secretariat is hosting a knowledge exchange webinar with financial institutions sharing their experiences in the decarbonization journey of their building portfolios. This webinar aims to showcase exemplary industry practices of financial institutions in different stages of the decarbonization process, following the launch of the PCAF Guidance on financing the net-zero building transition in September 2022. It is organized in the scope of the PCAF project Financing towards net-zero buildings.

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) is hosting two virtual launch webinars of the PCAF Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for Insurance-Associated Emissions. The virtual launch webinar featured a presentation on the first version of the Insurance-Associated Emissions Standard, including finalized attribution factors for commercial lines and personal motor portfolios.

The 9:00 CET webinar will feature Marco Tormen, PCAF Europe and DACHLI Lead and Responsible Project Manager, Martin Weymann, Head Group Sustainability at Swiss Re, Daniel Eherer, Senior Sustainability Manager Commercial Insurance at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd., and Ben Carr, Analytics and Capital Modelling Director at Aviva.

The 9:00 ET | 15:00 CET webinar will feature Marco Tormen, PCAF Europe and DACHLI Lead and Responsible Project Manager, Martin Weymann, Head Group Sustainability at Swiss Re, Daniel Eherer, Senior Sustainability Manager Commercial Insurance at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd., and Sheri Wilbanks, Head of GRM P&C Climate & Sustainability at AXA,

The Joint Impact Model Foundation and British International Investment will co-host a hybrid event at the COP27 Innovation Zone, Climate Action Innovation Zone at COP27 | 7-18 November (cop-27.org) in Sharm el-Sheikh. The event will showcase frameworks and learning from the JIM-PCAF pilot, which helps onboard developing economy banks to use the JIM to align with the PCAF standard and a practical toolkit for investors on Transiton Finance, co-developed by academics, leading DFIs and African commercial FIs, to euqip emerging market finanical institutions with the tools to reach thier net zero ambitions. 

The 14:25-16:00 (Egypt time) hybrid event will feature Eslam Mohamed Mahdy, PCAF MENA Regional Lead.

The BuildingtoCOP Coalition is hosting a hybrid event on the crucial role that the financial sector has in transitioning to net zero buildings. The session will showcase leadership and best practices across actors in the finance sector in transitioning to net zero buildings, highlight the importance of data collection and taking a whole life carbon approach to financial stakeholders and the implications on property valuations, alongside demonstrating outstanding areas of action and identifying future priorities.

Madeline Schneider, Project Manager of PCAF’s Financing towards net-zero buildings, will speak from 3:25 to 4:25 (CET) on "internalizing whole-life carbon costs in investment decisions" and present on benchmarking and target setting to ensure Paris alignment. 

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) is hosting a virtual launch of the public consultation on GHG accounting methodology for capital markets facilitated emissions. The virtual launch event will feature keynote speakers who will provide a deep dive into the proposed methodology.

The PCAF Secretariat is hosting a virtual launch of the PCAF Guidance on financing the European building transition to net zero. The virtual launch event will feature Madeline Schneider, Project Manager of PCAF’s Financing towards net-zero buildings, Peter Sandahl, Head of Sustainability of Nordea Life & Pension, and Gabriel Marosi, Group Sustainability Officer of Erste Group.

The virtual launch event will help participants understand the added value of the PCAF Guidance for financial institutions, including a harmonized net-zero building definition as well as a stepwise approach towards net zero with the required effort level and speed to decarbonize building portfolios.

An in-person event hosted by  Deloitte and organized by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI).

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of the PCAF Secretariat will present on the PCAF global standard to measure and disclose insurance-associated emissions. 

A series of workshops hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) for signatories of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). The webinars focused on capacity-building for those signatories that required a deeper understanding of the PCAF Standard.

Jorge Martínez-Blat, PCAF Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead, delivered two workshops for Latin American banks on 12 and 13 July. Workshops for other regions to be delivered in the coming months.

The PCAF Insurance-Associated Emissions Working Group has launched a progress report on insurance-associated emissions for a public consultation. 

Two identical 45-minute webinars were held to provide participants with highlights of the Progress Report as well as information about how to submit feedback. The webinars featured Marco Tormen, Europe and DACHLI Regional Lead of PCAF, and Martin Weymann, Head Sustainability, Emerging & PRM at Swiss Re, and representing the chair of the PCAF Insurance-Associated Emissions Working Group. 30 minutes of presentation were followed by a 15-minute Q&A.

A virtual workshop hosted by the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and co-organized with PCAF to share the importance and implementation of measuring financed emissions of a portfolio.

The webinar featured Jorge Martínez-Blat, former PCAF Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead, and Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead.

An online forum hosted by The Investment Association which serves as a discussion group, used for exchanging experiences, challenges and best practice related to TCFD implementation.

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, presented the approach in the PCAF Standard and conducted a Q&A session with UK asset managers, life insurers, FCA-regulated pension providers, and more.

An hybrid event hosted by the UN Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Initiative. The aim of the event was to look back at how the PSI has shaped sustainable insurance over the last 10 years and to explore how the PSI can amplify sustainable insurance in the next 10 years.

Marco Tormen, PCAF Europe and DACHLI Regional Lead, was invited to represent PCAF in person at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. In the panel on State-of-the-art net-zero insurance thinking and practice, he elaborated on the progress of the upcoming GHG accounting methodologies for insurance-associated emissions.

An online forum hosted by the Shenzhen Green Finance Association and co-organized by the Bank of China Shenzhen Branch.

Yuchen Hu, part of the PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Team, joined the roundtable on “Finance and net zero” to present PCAF as a relevant international initiative with global development and implementation.

An online seminar hosted by the Japanese Practitioners for Banking on Values (JPBV) in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV). 

The webinar featured Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, as well as PCAF signatories and GABV members Banca Ética, Ecology Building Society, and GLS Bank, which presented case studies of how they applied the PCAF Standard to their lending and investment portfolios.

An invite-only webinar hosted by the China Banking Association Expert Climate Working Group, supported by WWF China. 

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, presented the PCAF Standard and the importance of measuring financed emissions for financial institutions.

A virtual webinar hosted by PRI China, part of a capacity building series for Chinese investors and regulators to build their knowledge and capacity on implementing and reporting on the four TCFD pillars.

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, discussed measuring and disclosing financed emissions with PCAF as an essential way of fulfilling the Metrics and Targets pillar of TCFD for financial institutions.

An online capacity-building workshop hosted by CDP LATAM to provide training on the PCAF Standard and how financial institutions can use it to measure financed emissions of their portfolios.

Jorge Martínez-Blat, former PCAF Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead, provided an overview of the PCAF Standard, the importance of GHG accounting, and technical insights into the application of the PCAF methodology.

A virtual webinar hosted by CDP. Part of the 2022 Asia Pacific Capacity Building Webinar Series for Financial Institutions. This webinar introduced the Portfolio Impact section of the CDP Financial Services questionnaire.

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, highlighted the importance of calculating financed emissions using the PCAF Global Standard.

A series of two workshops organized by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). The workshops related to the published consultation paper on the “application guidance on using climate change scenarios in the ORSA”, which had the objectives of:

• Engaging with industry, supervisors and associations and receive public feedback;
• Promoting awareness of climate change risk in the insurance industry;
• Increasing the number of ORSA reports which consider climate change as potential risk driver; and
• Anticipating the main amendments to the document following the consultation procedure.

Marco Tormen, PCAF Europe and DACHLI Regional Lead, presented on GHG accounting using the PCAF Standard at a workshop for Non-Life Insurers on 28 April and a workshop for Life Insurers on 13 May.

A forum hosted by the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) aimed to gather the private sector to exchange ideas with SFWG members and discuss ways to strengthen the synergy of the public and private sectors in scaling up sustainable finance to meet the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement goals.

Angelica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, provided an introduction to measuring financed emissions with the PCAF Standard in a roundtable regarding improving the credibility of financial institution net-zero commitments.

An online workshop hosted by the International Capital Market Association to introduce members to the PCAF methodology and the value of measuring and disclosing financed emissions. Two sessions were hosted to accommodate global time zones.

Chris Snyder, PCAF North America Lead, and Jorge Martínez-Blat, former PCAF Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead, were featured in the sessions on 21 and 26 April, respectively. 

An invite-only virtual event hosted by Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and CDP. This workshop was part of a virtual training to provide capacity building and case studies for non-banking financial institutions on the topic of climate change and to enable a green and sustainable capital markets ecosystem in Indonesia.

Jorge Martínez-Blat, former Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead of the PCAF Secretariat, provided an introduction to measuring financed emissions with the PCAF Standard and the importance of GHG accounting in risk management in line with TCFD recommendations.

An online webinar hosted by PCAF. Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of the PCAF Secretariat, and Madeline Schneider, Project Manager of the PCAF project Financing towards net-zero buildings, showcased the publicly available PCAF European building emission factor database and highlighted its role in the decarbonization of the buildings sector. 

After five months of intensive work, the PCAF Insurance-Associated Emissions Working Group launched a scoping document for a public consultation which ran from 10 March to 31 March and is now closed.

The scoping document is a precursor to a full-fledged methodology and contains several topics:

• A discussion on the differences between insurance-associated emissions and financed emissions,
• A presentation of the scope and principles of the GHG accounting of insurance-associated emissions, and
• An exploration of possible numerators and denominators for the attribution factor to calculate absolute emissions associated with insurance underwriting.

As part of the development process, we will rely on your views to shape this important topic.

A hybrid online-virtual technical workshop hosted by the Kenyan Bankers Association and co-hosted by UNEP-FI's Reuben Wambui and David Carlin. 

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager, and Dylan Hauser, PCAF Africa Regional Lead, delivered a presentation on measuring financed emissions with the PCAF Standard and the importance of GHG accounting.

A webinar hosted by CREFC Europe in collaboration with Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). The session included presentations on the CRREM approach to management of transition risk and financed emissions as well as on PCAF's application of the Standard to the buildings sector. A discussion with industry participants followed the presentations.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, discussed the global standardization of measurement and disclosure of GHG emissions associated with financial portfolios and the need to speed up the financing of the transition towards net-zero buildings.

An online session hosted by Shenzhen Municipal Local Financial Regulatory Bureau and Shenzhen Green Finance Association invited experts to discuss practices and development in carbon accounting for financial institutions in China.  This was the first session of Shenzhen Green finance and Sustainability Forum.

Tiange Wei, PCAF APAC Regional Lead, was invited to introduce the core values of GHG accounting for financial institutions and the PCAF Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry.

A knowledge-sharing workshop hosted by the Taiwan Stock Exchange, Cozeta Energy Service Corporation, and CDP Asia-Pacific. The session focused on the TCFD framework for financial institutions with the sharing of international best practices.

Tiange Wei, PCAF APAC Regional Lead, was invited to introduce PCAF and the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry. Special focus was given to how PCAF can help financial institutions to meet the relevant TCFD disclosure requirements for the financial sector, which now include measuring financed emissions with PCAF.

A two-day conference co-hosted by Beijing Institute of Finance and Sustainability and Global Green Finance Leadership Program which invited experts to exchange ideas and discuss topics on Role of Green and Sustainable Finance, Climate Disclosure and Other Approaches in Climate and Nature-Related Risk Management, Financial Product Innovation for Sustainability, and GHG Accounting for Financial Institutions.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, led a discussion on 17 December on the most common difficulties which financial institutions face within GHG accounting as well as their solutions.

A virtual two-day conference hosted by AllianceBernstein which sought to bring together emerging market corporate and sovereign issuers, ESG policy experts, and investors representing over $30 trillion in AUM.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, joined a panel discussion on ESG pressure on commercial business lending on 8 December.

A webinar hosted by the External Reporting Board (XRB) of New Zealand inviting participants to learn more about PCAF's Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry. This webinar aimed to inform climate reporting entities and others about the PCAF Standard as a way to assess and disclose GHG emissions of loans and investments.

The XRB is developing a climate-related disclosures framework for Aotearoa New Zealand based on the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which recommends that banks, asset owners and asset managers should use the PCAF Standard when assessing and disclosing financed emissions.

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, introduced the Standard in this session and answered questions in a Q&A at the end.

A predominantly virtual conference on sustainable finance hosted by The Banking Association South Africa to highlight the role of the financial service industry in supporting sustainable development in South Africa. The event focused on sustainable evironmental and social development, as well as the outcomes of COP26.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, gave an address on 25 November to highlight the relevance of measuring and disclosing financed emissions in the context of sustainable development. 

A series of workshops in Thailand and Indonesia presented by Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and CDP to support the sustainable stock exchange initiative and enable a sustainable capital markets ecosystem. The workshops targeted representatives of the capital market regulators and financial institutions responsible for sustainable finance initiatives in both countries.

PCAF Secretariat representatives were featured in both workshops on the the panel on International ESG Frameworks and Sustainable Finance. Esther Platzbecker, former PCAF DACHLi Regional Co-Lead,  joined for an address in the webinar for Thailand on 18 November.

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, spoke at the Indonesia event on 1 December. Both sessions were concluded with a 15-minute Q&A.

A series of three technical webinars hosted by PCAF on the new draft methods for sovereign bonds, green bonds, and emission removals. The webinars featured representatives of the PCAF Core Team, the body responsible for developing the draft methods of future versions of the PCAF Standard.

Attendees learned more about the technical details of the draft methods and could engage and ask questions about them. Three webinars were held to cover different geographies: Asia-Pacific, Americas, and Europe & Africa.

A virtual launch of PCAF's latest project, Financing towards net-zero buildings, funded by the Laudes Foundation. This project addresses the urgent need for the financial industry to accelerate the transition of European buildings towards net zero by 2050.

Attendees learned about the required transformation of the European building stock by 2050 and the crucial role of financial institutions in enabling the needed long-term structural change. Moreover, industry representatives discussed the opportunities of this transition and the need for the financial industry to act as an accelerator. Attendees also got an overview of how financial institutions can measure and track the climate impact of their mortgage and real estate portfolios towards net zero.

Visit the project site to learn more about the launch, the speakers at the webinar, and the project.

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) announced a virtual launch of the public consultation on three greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting methods developed by the PCAF Core Team: sovereign bonds, green bonds, and emission removals.

During the public consultation virtual launch, attendees gained insights into the new draft methods, understood their value to the financial industry, and learned how to participate in the public consultation. The consultation closed on 17 December 2021. 

A training series on PCAF Implementation and Considerations hosted by the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA) and PCAF. The training series aimed to promote the PCAF Global Standard and its functionality to a larger audience of banks who are members of the HKGFA. 

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, and Jorge Martínez-Blat, Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead of the PCAF Secretariat, spoke about enabling financial institutions to assess and disclose financed emissions with the PCAF Standard and highlighted best practices. PCAF co-founder Triodos Bank provided practical examples of the application of the PCAF Standard.

A pre-COP26 virtual event hosted by PCAF signatory Phoenix Group that brought together leading voices of the financial industry discussing the role of financial insitutions in tackling the challenges associated with climate change. This event focused on accelerating action towards transitioning investment portolios towards net zero and to foster collaboration across the sector.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, was featured at the Panel "Towards a net zero financial ecosystem". He introduced the PCAF Standard for measuring and diclosing fianced emissions and highlighted the importance of collaboration across financial institutions using PCAF as an example of an industry-led initiative.

A webinar series hosted by PCAF and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) featuring representatives from banks committed to both PCAF and the NZBA: Morgan Stanley, HSBC, and Shinhan Financial Group. 

Three 30-minute webinars were organised for different geographies & time zones and highlighted practical examples of how participating PCAF banks use the Standard to fulfill their NZBA commitments.

Watch the recorded webinar - Europe Watch the recorded webinar - Americas Watch the recorded webinar - Asia Pacific

A global virtual event presented by the UN Environment Programme's Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative in support of the New York Climate Action Week. The event hosted high-level speakers, climate experts and insurers unpacking the concept of net-zero insurance and presented the UN-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA).

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, joined the panel "Roundtable 2: Measuring insured emissions – State of play and next key actions" as an expert of the PCAF Global Standard and explained how it can be used for measuring and disclosing emissions associated with insurance activities. 

A series of webinars hosted by FC4S on “Methodologies and tools for Paris Alignment”, which focused on widely accepted and freely available climate finance methodologies and tools for the financial sector. The three workshops highlighted PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials), SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) and PACTA (Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment) including user experiences with each one of them.

The workshops concluded with Q&A sessions, during which participants could engage with representatives from the climate finance initiatives. Each webinar was held at two different times to allow participation across the globe.

The first workshop in the series featured Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, who presented PCAF's Strategic Framework for Paris Alignment and an overview of the initiative.

A summit connected to the Cimate Action Week and with the theme "Global Carbon Neutrality and China's Commitment" hosted by Phoenix TV and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) at the Beijing Phoenix Centre. The event covered heated climate topics such as global carbon neutrality, corporate climate ambitions, green finance, energy tranistion, green building, and low-carbon transoprtation. 

Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, represented PCAF on day three with the theme "Green Finance Building a Greener Future Together". She was featured on the roundtable on "Sharing Good Practices: Low Carbon Transition for Asset Management Industry".

The 6th annual Sustainable Investment Forum North America in partnership with UNEP-FI took place in September 2021 alongside Climate Week NYC, with the mission to mobilize sustainable investment towards a 1.5°C world.

The Forum convened over 2,000 asset owners and investment managers, institutional investors, pension funds, banks, development banks, policymakers, think tanks and NGOs to continue to build the momentum for sustainable finance and responsible investment.

Chris Snyder, PCAF North America Regional Lead, was featured as a speaker at the virtual panel "Can a more multilateral approach in US foreign policy under Biden result in increased foreign investment and accelerate the drive for a green and inclusive recovery globally? Can an upsurge in ESG investing play an integral role in recovery and resilience planning?", on Tuesday, 21 September (SINV Part 1).

Part of a training series hosted by The Alliance For Green Commercial Banks - an initiative from IFC Asia Pacific and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). The session addressed financial institutions' questions on how to integrate climate risk management into their business and whether there is a global standard for them to measure climate risk. 

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, gave an overview of the PCAF Global Standard and explained how measuring financed emissions can help FIs manage their climate risk.

A hybrid workshop organized by CECEP Environmental Consulting Group under the supervision of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and with the support of the Energy Foundation. The workshop focused on practical implementation of carbon emissions measurement in China and the sharing of domestic and international best practices.

The workshop was attended both virtually by international participants and in-person by FIs in Shenzhen. Tiange Wei, PCAF Asia-Pacific Regional Lead, presented PCAF and the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry. The presentation was followed by practical use insights shared by PCAF signatories Triodos Bank and Natwest Group. 

A workshop series organized by the Cambrige Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) that focused on the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) module on Client Transitions. The workshop brought 25 financial organisations together to dig deeper into the Assess phase of the Banking Environment Initiative's Let's Discuss Climate: Guide to Bank-Client Engagement.

Cara Merusi, PCAF UK and Middle East Regional Lead, represented PCAF as a speaker on the panel "Client KPIs and impact metrics".

An online workshop organized by World Bank Group, International Institute of Green Finance, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition and PCAF as an official side event of the UNFCCC Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2021.

The online workshop brought together stakeholders from governments, financial institutions, international organizations and academia from China and abroad to exchange experiences and knowledge in the topic of carbon pricing, carbon finance and accounting in the context of China's carbon neutrality goal. The event sought to initiate a discussion about how to better integrate innovative financial instruments to guide public and private financial flows in support of the low-carbon transition. 

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, was featured as a speaker at Roundtable 2: "How measuring financed emissions catalyzes action in both finance and industry".

An online online seminar hosted by Japan's Financial Services Agency and CDP that focused on how financial institutions can measure and disclose their Scope 3 emissions to decarbonize their financial portfolios.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, delivered a presentation on PCAF, the Standard, and GHG accounting. 

A webinar hosted by the European Association of Public Banks (EAPB) in which Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and LATAM Regional Lead, gave a presentation on PCAF and the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry 

Following the presentation, EAPB member NBW Bank explained how they applied the PCAF methodology to gain insights into the sustainability of their loan porfolio.

A technical workshop organized by The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) that was designed for senior finance professionals on accounting for financed emissions.

The workshop focused on the practical steps that finance teams can take in supporting the financed emissions accounting process. Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, and Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, provided an overview on the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry, complemented by insights from financial institutions currently participating in PCAF (ABN AMRO and NatWest).

An online workshop organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to give an overview of PCAF's recent publication, the Strategic Framework for Paris Alignment.

Jorge Martínez-Blat, Communications, Climate Policy, and Technical Assistance Lead of the PCAF Secretariat and co-author of the Strategic Framework for Paris Alignment, elaborated on the publication's significance in decoding the climate finance ecosystem. Examples of the framework in practice were presented by PCAF signatories FirstRand Group Ltd. and Grupo Bancolombia. 

A webinar hosted by the Korea Sustainability Investing Forum (KoSIF) to provide an overview of PCAF and the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry to five financial groups and three public pension funds in the Republic of Korea.

A webinar organized by the Climate Action in Financial Institutions initiative to provide an opportunity for financial institutions professionals to learn more about GHG accounting methodologies and discuss with peers how the ones currently available may be used as part of Paris alignment strategies.

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, presented the Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry and explained how to use it as part of Paris alignment approaches. This presentation was complemented by practical use insights from PCAF signatory FMO.

A project organized by Science Based Targets initiative Mexico with the aim of, among other goals, building and strengthening the capacity of key government institutions on corporate climate action and creating synergies with related policies and programs. 

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, and Jorge Martínez-Blat, Communications and Climate Policy Lead of the PCAF Secretariat, presented PCAF's Strategic Framework for Paris Alignment to the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) to illuminate the relationship between the many climate initiatives for financial institutions and their respective places in the process of Paris alignment.

The 4th annual Sustainable Investment Forum Europe returned in April 2021 as a 4-part digital event series across 2 weeks.

The Forum convened over 1,850 asset owners and investment managers, institutional investors, pension funds, banks, development banks, policymakers, think tanks and NGOs to continue to build the momentum for sustainable finance and responsible investment.

Peter Sandahl, representing the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance in the PCAF Steering Committee, was featured as a speaker at the virtual panel "The European ESG Landscape mid and post pandemic", on Tuesday, 13 April (SINV Part 1).

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, was featured as a speaker at the virtual panel, "Women in sustainable finance--how to make it in the green economy", on Tuesday, 20 April (SINV 2021 Part 3). 

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, was featured as a speaker at the virtual panel, "Financial materiality: directing capital for a green recovery", on Thursday, 22 April (SINV 2021 Part 4).

A webinar hosted by the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance that addressed key transition and physical climate risks facing emerging markets banks and how carbon accounting standards like that of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) can enable banks to assess and manage climate risk.

Speakers included Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, and representatives from PCAF signatories Boston Common Asset Management and Grupo Bancolombia.

A webinar hosted by the Impact Investment Forum that adressed how financial institutions can reduce their financed emissions. Panelists explained how their teams are managing their financed emissions and the steps they are taking to reduce them. In addition, they provided their insights on existing methodologies, evaluating additionality, and the policy context around these complex and emerging financing solutions.

Speakers included Nicole Labutong, former PCAF North America Regional Lead, and Ivan Frishberg of Amalgamated Bank, a member of the PCAF Steering Committee.

A webinar hosted by PCAF with representatives from asset manager signatories in PCAF: AIMCo, Robeco and Boston Common Asset Management.

The panel highlighted the experiences of asset managers in measuring their financed emissions and explored why asset managers measure financed emissions using the PCAF Standard, how asset managers can engage with data providers, and how financed emissions can help asset managers achieve climate-related business goals.

Part of BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival. Net Zero Finance brought together leading investors, asset managers, corporates, policymakers, and campaigners to explore the fast-expanding green finance sector, explore the challenges ahead, showcase success stories and examine the opportunities.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF,  spoke at the panel "TCFD asap" on 16 March.

The Economist’s Climate Risk Summit: North America shared insights on how business leaders can manage and mitigate the impact of physical and transition risks posed by climate change.

Chris Snyder, Climate Finance Expert at PCAF and Director at Guidehouse, spoke at the session, "Reporting Climate Risk", on 15 March.

A virtual gathering hosted by Sunrise Banks to mark the thirteenth annual meeting of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a member of the PCAF Steering Committee. This year's virtual program was full of opportunities for participants to envision the future together and take steps toward a more sustainable and equitable banking system.

Angélica Afanador, PCAF Program Manager and Latin America Regional Lead, presented the session "PCAF - Measuring Carbon in Finance" on 3 March.

A virtual form organized by City & Financial Global. The second edition of The Climate Risk & Green Finance Regulatory Forum provided practical, detailed guidance about the steps that financial institutions need to be taking now in order to ensure that they are prepared for, and fully compliant with, the emerging regulatory environment, as well as examining the new opportunities that this seismic shift in finance will bring.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, spoke on the panel on Risk Management and Operational Resilience.

A virtual workshop on climate finance co-hosted by the International Institute of Finance (IIF) and YES BANK.

Giel Linthorst, Executive Director of PCAF, gave a presentation on assessing financed emissions in investment and lending portfolios.

A workshop held in German hosted by PCAF and the Verein für Umweltmanagement und Nachhaltigkeit in Finanzinstituten e.V. (VfU) with interested financial service providers in the DACH region.

The workshop covered the measurement of financed emissions in various asset classes, while also introducing the project design of a two-year peer learning group. The goal of the workshop was to show interested financial service providers how to participate in the PCAF D/A/CH regional group and invite them to participate and to sign the PCAF commitment.

PCAF UK Coalition announced their 2021 plans for implementing emissions accounting to drive change in residential property and agroforestry.

PCAF hosted a launch webinar to release the first edition of the Global GHG Accounting Standard for the Financial Industry. High level speakers from the industry discussed how the Standard can be used by financial institutions to measure financed emissions.

Financed Emissions: How the Financial Industry is Addressing Climate Change. PCAF's Executive Director Giel Linthorst & PCAF Steering Committee Member Ivan Frishberg of Amalgamated Bank gave insight on the effort to measure the carbon impact of loans and investments as a building block for further climate action and on PCAF's role in this global effort.

Co-hosted by the IIF and the Norinchukin Bank. Tailored and timed for a Japanese audience, this virtual event featured panel discussions with leading executives and experts on the rapidly evolving landscape for ESG data and analytics. A presentation on assessing financed emissions in investment and lending portfolios using PCAF was given by Chris Snyder, Director at Guidehouse and Sean Wright, Executive Director of Global Sustainable Finance at Morgan Stanley.

PCAF was invited by Mark Carney and Lord Mayor of the City of London William Russell to speak at the Green Horizon Summit's Reporting Panel. PCAF Steering Committee Member Morgan Stanley was represented by CSO Audrey Choi.

Co-hosted by the IIF and the Associated Banks in SIngapore (ABS). Tailored and timed for an Asian audience, this virtual event featured panel discussions with leading executives and experts on the changing policy and regulatory backdrop. PCAF's executive director, Giel Linthorst, explained how to measure “financed emissions” in financial firms’ investment and lending portfolios.

Giel Linthorst and Thomas Hähl from the PCAF Secretariat held a webinar on portfolio carbon accounting together with the Verein für Umweltmanagement und Nachhaltigkeit in Finanzinstituten (VfU) e.V. with focus on the upcoming collaboration between PCAF and financial institutions from the D/A/CH region (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). Workshop held in German.

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During this webinar, CDP, PCAF and ABN AMRO explained the importance of financed emissions to understand the climate impact of financial portfolios and to enable alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Assessing Financed Emissions in Investment and Lending Portfolios. During this webinar, PCAF's executive director, Giel Linthorst, presented the progress of PCAF towards harmonizing carbon accounting, the development status of the Global Carbon Accounting Standard and its upcoming global stakeholder consultation.

PCAF's executive director, Giel Linthorst, presented the progress accomplished thus far by PCAF's participants on standardizing GHG emissions financed by loans and investments. He also shared how the partnerships built between PCAF and the Dutch government have increased access to higher data quality for portolio carbon accounting. Next to this, Giel presented the plans to standardizing GHG emissions dataflows based on XBRL and the relation to the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).

Webinar for Latin American banks "Enabling Banks to measure climate impact to facilitate Paris alignment". Organized by UNEP FI PRB and PCAF. Banks will learn how to measure their climate impact, one of the inputs required to do impact analysis and set targets. Webinar held in Spanish.

Organized by FEBRABAN, the Brazilian Federation of Banks. PCAF presented the current status of the initiative and the development of the Global Carbon Accounting Standard.

Organized by IPC, under the leadership of Sitawi, PCAF present about the importance of harmonizing the way investors measure financed emissions and the benefits of joining PCAF.

James Niven, Triodos Bank's Head of Impact Assessment, and Andrea Palmer, Product Specialist at Triodos Investment Management, provided an introduction to PCAF. This webinar explored the PCAF carbon accounting methodologies and explained why this streamlined approach is enabling financial institutions to find common ground on action against the climate crisis.

A side event at COP25 in the EIB-Benelux Pavilion at 9:30 am. During this event, PCAF launched a new report on carbon accounting methods developed by the Dutch team. Madrid, Spain.

Hosted by AXA IM. During this event PCAF presented the carbon accounting methodology for the financial sector and the link with science-based target setting. Paris, France.

Hosted by UBS. During this event PCAF presented the carbon accounting methodology for the financial sector and the link with science-based target setting. Frankfurt, Germany.

During this event, KBC Group, Triodos Bank and ING shared their experiences on carbon accounting. Brussels, Belgium.

Brussels, Belgium.

A webinar with an overview of the methods developed by the PCAF North American team, including case studies, lessons learned and related tools.

During this event, the PCAF secretariat held a technical workshop focused on carbon accounting methodologies. Seattle, Washington, USA.

During the climate week in New York, leaders of the PCAF Steering Committee and PCAF members celebrated the initiative's global launch. New York, USA.

Hosted by FirstRand, the PCAF initiative led a discussion on current trends in carbon accounting for financial institutions. The event allowed African banks to learn about PCAF methodologies and discuss opportunities and challenges of assessing the climate impact of their portfolios. Johannesburg, South Africa.

During this event, the PCAF secretariat held a technical workshop focused on carbon accounting methodologies. Leeds, United Kingdom.

Hosted by Triodos Bank and AFI Escuela, the forum focused on methodologies to measure the climate impact of loans and investments. Madrid, Spain.

Triodos Bank convened financial institutions from Germany to discuss about carbon accounting methodologies, share experiences of implementing PCAF and PACTA in the Netherlands, and clarify the complementarity between PCAF and PACTA approaches. Frankfurt, Germany.