Our latest SUSI Insights report provides an overview of our approach to quantifying and reporting Potential Avoided Emissions (“PAE”), a critical climate impact metric.
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Each of our investments is required to lead to a measurable greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emission reduction. Meeting that requirement necessitates a credible metric that quantifies this positive climate impact. We believe that transparent and third-party verified PAE quantification is currently the best tool to support our climate impact claims and therefore have developed project type-specific quantification methodologies in line with established reporting standards such as the GHG Protocol and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (“PCAF”).
In this report, we highlight the benefits and challenges of PAE reporting, provide insights into the general principles of PAE quantification and explain how we apply these principles to specific project types, including a deeper dive into our latest methodology for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
While the lack of standardisation and regulatory guidance still presents a challenge to the consistent application of the metric across sectors and organisations, we believe that active engagement and transparent sharing of methodologies is crucial to improving industry-wide alignment and comparability. We therefore hope this report can provide a basis for further alignment and thereby strengthen the metric’s role in directing more capital towards low-carbon solutions.
