Public financial institution’s climate commitments Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity Methodology Brief

The methodology brief describes a framework for tracking public financial institutions' climate commitments, categorizing them into targets and pledges (such as Paris-aligned, net zero, and exclusion policies) and institutional strategies. It details a data collection process involving automated scraping of institutional websites, news articles, and the analysis of over 120 sustainability and annual reports for 70 entities representing USD 20.4 trillion in assets.

• The tracking taxonomy organizes climate commitments into two primary dimensions: 'Targets and pledges', which signal intent and potential future flows, and 'Institutional climate strategies and related implementation actions', which measure how climate considerations are integrated into decision-making processes.
• The 'Targets and pledges' dimension specifically tracks five categories of commitments: Paris-aligned flows, net zero targets, other mitigation targets (including carbon neutrality), climate finance and sustainability goals, and exclusion and divestment policies.
• The study focused on a sample of 70 medium-to-mega sized public financial institutions, which collectively represent 95% of the total assets in the Finance in Common dataset, totaling USD 20.4 trillion.
• Data collection employed a multi-channel approach: an automated pipeline using the Google Custom Search API for institutional websites and news articles, and natural language processing models to extract data from over 120 annual, sustainability, and climate reports.
• The methodology identifies several limitations, including the fact that it only captures publicly disclosed data, covers only the last seven years (post-Paris Agreement), and relied primarily on English-language keyword searches.

APA

Pastor, A. O., Chin, N., & Pinko, N. (2022). Public financial institution’s climate commitments Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity Methodology Brief. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/public-fi-commitments-methodology-brief-oct-2022.pdf

Chicago

Pastor, Angela Ortega, Neil Chin, and Nicole Pinko. Public financial institution’s climate commitments Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity Methodology Brief. Climate Policy Initiative, 2022. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/public-fi-commitments-methodology-brief-oct-2022.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{pastor2022public, author = {Pastor, Angela Ortega and Chin, Neil and Pinko, Nicole}, title = {{Public financial institution’s climate commitments Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity Methodology Brief}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2022}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/public-fi-commitments-methodology-brief-oct-2022.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }