{"id":21830,"date":"2024-05-02T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:45:48","slug":"are-sustainable-finance-metrics-up-for-the-volatility-of-the-transition-to-net-zero-a-new-working-paper-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2024\/05\/02\/are-sustainable-finance-metrics-up-for-the-volatility-of-the-transition-to-net-zero-a-new-working-paper-investigates\/","title":{"rendered":"Are sustainable finance metrics up for the volatility of the transition to net zero? A new working paper investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_21833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21833\" style=\"width: 919px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21833 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905.png 919w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905-768x704.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-02-105905-570x522.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image using AI, Ilmi Granoff<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/press\/release-u-s-banks-and-investors-responsible-for-roughly-the-emissions-of-russia-report-finds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate experts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/press\/release-u-s-banks-and-investors-responsible-for-roughly-the-emissions-of-russia-report-finds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">regulators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have increased attention on the financial sector as a driver of both emissions and capital formation in the low-carbon economy. There has been growing emphasis on \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfanzero.com\/our-work\/financial-institution-net-zero-transition-plans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aligning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d capital allocation by financial institutions to the transition to net zero greenhouse gases (GHG) in the hopes of both minimizing the disruption of the transition to efficient capital formation and accelerating the transition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any approach to aligning financial capital with the net-zero transition must take into account that the transition will be a rocky one. This is not only because of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/climate-policy-uncertainty-and-investment-risk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">vagaries of climate policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The recent disruptions from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chapter-3-new.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID-19<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/europe\/how-ukraine-russia-war-rattled-global-financial-markets-2022-08-24\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and persistent fears of a global economic recession serve as reminders that the background economic conditions of decarbonization will also be in a state of constant flux, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/key\/date\/2022\/html\/ecb.sp220317_2~dbb3582f0a.en.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sometimes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but not exclusively fueled by the climate crisis itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.columbia.edu\/sabin_climate_change\/222\/\">working paper<\/a> published today by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Columbia Center for Sustainable Investing explores how financed emissions \u2013 a metric commonly used to associate financing and emissions \u2013 handles economic volatility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcfdhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PAT_Measuring_Portfolio_Alignment_Technical_Considerations.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Various methodologies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have been developed over the last decade to link financial institutions\u2019 portfolios to GHG emissions in the \u201creal\u201d economy, enable them to estimate exposure to climate-related financial risk and provide shareholders and investors a picture of how their financial activity impacts global climate change. Among these approaches, analysis and disclosure of \u201cfinanced emissions\u201d by financial institutions has become increasingly common (driven largely by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carbonaccountingfinancials.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). Financed emissions methodologies extend the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ghgprotocol.org\/global-ghg-accounting-and-reporting-standard-financial-industry\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GHG protocol<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s framework for emissions footprinting to capture the indirect emissions effects of financial activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In general, financed emissions metrics at the portfolio level are derived from the aggregation of (a) a calculation of the GHG footprint of each company in a financial portfolio multiplied by (b) an \u201cattribution factor\u201d that captures the financial institutions\u2019 share of the financial value of that portfolio company. This calculation has become popular because it provides a single measure of portfolio progress, because of the familiarity of the GHG protocol among relevant stakeholders, and because it provides third parties a practical means to attribute emissions to financial institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics of financed emissions have, however, pointed to two core methodological challenges. First, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ccsi.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/docs\/Finance_for_Zero_CCSI_June_2023.pdf\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">comparability<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between financial institution disclosures is hampered by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/shivaramrajgopal\/2023\/04\/19\/the-hotchpotch-world-of-financed-emissions-a-case-study-of-top-four-us-banks-in-the-energy-sector\/?sh=65111ea4538b\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">very different and often material<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> assumptions buried in underlying calculations made by each financial institution. Additionally, the constant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm-research.com\/content\/pmrjesg\/1\/3\/59\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">volatility <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the denominator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 measures of portfolio companies\u2019 financial value \u2013 makes it difficult to interpret the relationship between the metric and actual real-world emissions at any given time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new paper published today models volatility on a hypothetical financial portfolio of five high-emissions industries and compares the different methodological choices applied by financial institutions in calculating the metric. We found that the most commonly used attribution factor to calculate financed emissions \u2013 enterprise value including cash, or EVIC \u2013 exacerbates the effect of volatility on the metric. Using accounting metrics (like book value) to calculate financed emissions across the whole portfolio may potentially reduce \u2013 but does not eliminate \u2013 the impact of volatility while maintaining comparability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Financial contractions present a critical challenge for the financed emissions methodologies now adopted by many of the world\u2019s financial institutions. In an economic downturn \u2013 like that from COVID-19 and the current threat of another global recession \u2013 one might expect the denominator of any financed emissions calculation (the measure of financial value) to decrease much faster than the numerator (the measure of emissions). This means that, even though actual emissions may decrease in a contraction, the economic shock will create the appearance of much greater financed emissions from individual financial institutions. This effect would occur even if financial institutions were to actually reduce emissions exposures, as hoped, due to their own portfolio reallocation and engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics of the financial sector may not care much if an economic contraction will make financial institutions look worse on their chosen sustainability metrics, but the inverse is also true. A major global market rally, for example, would create the appearance that investors have greatly reduced financed emissions even if they did not actually change their behavior in any way. Worse still, even a market rally associated with<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> greater <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">emissions in the real world could be associated with a substantial decline in apparent \u201cfinanced emissions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goal of financed emissions, or any alignment methodology, is transparency, accountability, and orderly management of emissions with the common goal of reducing the risks posed by climate change to financial institutions and society as a whole. To function as such, these methodologies must be as robust as possible. Ensuring that alignment methodologies are robust to economic shocks, or even the business cycle, is essential to their relevance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full paper <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.columbia.edu\/sabin_climate_change\/222\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, climate experts and even regulators have increased attention on the financial sector as a driver of both emissions and capital formation in the low-carbon economy. 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