New Documents - Publication Developments
Financial Sector Climate Risk
[fdaviet@wri.org]
WRI is continuing to work on a document focusing on climate risk management for financial institutions.
The guidance will help financial institutions identify and assess their exposure associated with financial transactions (i.e., debt and equity investments). Specifically the Climate Risk Management Tool will serve three important objectives:
• An industry standard to account and categorize GHG emissions from financial transactions,
• Provide portfolio managers with information to assess climate risk exposure in portfolios, and
• Systematically identify which elements of an investment portfolio need more in-depth climate risk analysis.
The principles, concepts, and methodologies developed in this tool will be consistent with international GHG reporting standards and financial accounting practices. A draft of the work is underway.
Grid-connected Electricity
[dbroekoff@wri.org]
The Project Protocol guidance for grid-connected electricity projects will address how to account for GHG emission reductions from renewable energy projects, energy efficiency projects, and other types of projects that displace or avoid grid electricity generation. It will provide both comprehensive and practical methods for estimating reductions in grid emissions. The final draft of the guidance has been completed and will be out for external review at the beginning of February.
Typology
[fdaviet@wri.org]
The project typology will provide project developers with project-specific information on a range of accounting issues (e.g., possible baseline candidates, secondary effects, important data sources, monitoring techniques) for all primary effects (e.g., reductions from stationary combustion, agricultural products, etc.). The document is almost complete and will be posted and available for download and for external review soon on the GHG Protocol website.
