During the project’s roadshow, starting Friday 23 October 2015, interested investors and index providers can get a confidential equity portfolio assessment of 2°C alignment, free of charge. This will allow them to set portfolio decarbonisation targets.

In the run-up to COP 21 in Paris, a growing number of institutional investors are committing to decarbonise their portfolio, for instance in the frame of the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition which so far represents $62 billion assets under management (€55 billion). The SEI Metrics framework will enable these commitments to be based on sound and comparable data.

The framework is described in a working paper "Assessing the alignment of portfolios with climate goals: IEA climate scenarios translated into a 2°C benchmark". It was already used to assess on 3 major stock indices (STOXX 600, S&P 500, and MSCI World).

The project’s consortium includes the Carbon disclosure project (CDP), CIRED, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Germany, the University of Zurich, Kepler-Cheuvreux, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, and the Climate Bonds Initiative.

SEI Metrics is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, ADEME, and the French Ministry of Environment.

More information on the SEI Metrics

Roadshow details: 

• Webinar October 23 16:00 CET & Oct 26 16:00 CET;
• Bern, October 30 (hosted by the Swiss Environment Ministry);
• Helsinki, November 4 (hosted by Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative);
• New York City, November 10 (hosted by Rockefeller & Co)
• Stockholm, November 12 (Presentation at event hosted by Swesif);
• Zurich, November 19 (Presentation at TBLI conference)
• Paris, November 30, at the French parliament, with France Strategy and the Oxford Martin School (organised as part of COP21);
• Paris, December 7, with the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the UNEP Inquiry (a COP21 Event in the "Climate Generations" Pavilion).