South Pole Carbon secures funding from Climate-KIC

Investors currently have no way of knowing the impacts and risk on the climate that prospective investments could have. By making information on the carbon materiality of investments available, investors will be more likely to allocate funds to climate-friendly opportunities. But in order to promote a new investment culture, comprehensive knowledge is needed on the climatic impact of investments. This information needs to be made readily available and easy-to-use across marketable products and tools.

Climate-KIC co-funds South Pole Carbon’s Sgreenvest project. Sgreenvest’s aim is to generating, quantifying and analyzing company greenhouse gas data to be used in products and tools that will give investors the knowledge that they need to make informed decisions. Lead by South Pole Carbon, the Sgreenvest consortium combines practitioners such as Credit Suisse and DWS with academics from the University of Hamburg and the Centre for Sustainable Banking and Finance in St Andrews/ Scotland but also responsible investment analytics specialist Sociovestix from Germany.

The kick-off workshop in October is open to selected investment managers and asset owners who would like to explore this field further. More information on the website of South Pole Carbon.