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Objective

The metrics and methodologies purporting to measure financial and business alignment with climate goals are too often misaligned, imprecise, not interoperable, or gameable. CLFI seeks to pinpoint the challenges and improve the performance of those critical methodologies and metrics.

Pillar Lead

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Perrine Toledano

Director of Research & Programs, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Perrine Toledano oversees the development of a coordinated, integrated, and impactful program of research across CCSI’s thematic areas of interest. With her deep expertise in natural resource governance, she leads research, training, and advisory projects on the impact of the energy transition on extractive industry investments and resource-rich countries, as well as on the deployment of large-scale investments in renewable energy, zero-carbon industrialization, and economy-wide decarbonization. She jointly developed curricula for a masters and an executive course on extractives and sustainable development taught at Columbia University, and she is co-editor of two volumes published by Columbia University Press (Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options and The New Frontiers of Sovereign Investment). Perrine serves on several advisory boards and expert working groups. Prior to joining CCSI, she worked as a consultant for such organizations as the World Bank and Revenue Watch Institute (now NRGI), as well as private sector companies, including Natixis Corporate Investment Bank and Ernst and Young. Her experience includes auditing, financial analysis, IT for capital markets, public policy evaluation, and cross-border project management. She has a Masters of Business Administration from ESSEC in Paris, France, and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University.

Perrine Toledano

Director of Research & Programs
CCSI

Projects

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Venture capital

Informing the design of climate-advancing investment instruments

CLFI is engaging with two investment firms to assess and strengthen methodologies to define climate-advancing impact in venture capital and fixed income.
Carbon accounting

Creating harmonized approaches to carbon accounting that ensures the quality, comparability, and decision-usefulness of methodologies and related disclosures

CLFI is preparing publications on the emissions accounting practices for low-carbon steel and aluminum brands, the role of public procurement in decarbonizing steel and aluminum production, and the additionality of GHG reductions associated with market mechanisms.
financed emissions methodologies

Strengthening financial institutions’ alignment methodologies, including by analyzing financed emissions methodologies

As financial institutions seek clarity and consistency in methodologies to measure portfolio alignment with decarbonization, CLFI is exploring the challenges of financed emissions methodologies and will provide recommendations to strengthen financial institutions’ alignment methodologies.