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Company Emissions Data for Financial Services
Calculating financed emissions requires reliable company emissions data. For banks, asset managers, and insurers, this is the foundation of climate strategy, risk management, and regulatory reporting. But sourcing complete and comparable data, especially for private companies, is a major challenge. DitchCarbon provides a single, audit-ready source for public and private company emissions data, helping you improve PCAF data quality and understand the true carbon footprint of your portfolio.
Public & private company emissions data
Improve your PCAF data quality score
Audit-ready portfolio emissions data
Normalised Scope 1-3 for comparability
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Reliable company emissions data for financed emissions and portfolio analysis.
Why Sourcing Reliable Company Emissions Data is a Challenge
For financial institutions, understanding financed emissions is no longer optional. It's central to risk management, regulatory compliance, and meeting investor expectations. However, the underlying company emissions data needed for this analysis is often fragmented, inconsistent, or simply unavailable. This creates significant hurdles:
- Inconsistent Disclosures: Companies report emissions using different methodologies and boundaries. This makes direct comparisons unreliable and complicates portfolio-level aggregation.
- The Private Market Blind Spot: While public company data is improving, a significant gap remains for private company emissions data. Without it, any analysis of portfolio emissions is incomplete.
- Poor PCAF Data Quality: The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) framework highlights data quality as a core component of credible reporting. Using unverified estimates or incomplete datasets leads to low PCAF data quality scores, undermining the credibility of your disclosures.
- Volatile Time-Series Data: Companies frequently restate historical emissions, making it difficult to track genuine decarbonisation progress over time. Analysts are left trying to distinguish real change from reporting adjustments.
These data challenges prevent financial institutions from getting a clear picture of their financed emissions, managing transition risk effectively, and identifying genuine decarbonisation opportunities.
A Single Source for Verifiable Portfolio Emissions Data
DitchCarbon was built to solve this data chaos. We provide a single, consolidated source of truth for company emissions data, covering both public and private markets. This allows you to move from patchwork data collection to confident, decision-ready analysis.
What makes our data different:
- Comprehensive Coverage: Access normalised Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data for over 2 million organisations, including extensive coverage of private company emissions data.
- Standardised and Comparable: We normalise data to ensure true like-for-like comparisons across your portfolio, adjusting for different reporting boundaries and methodologies.
- Stable, Restatement-Adjusted History: Our platform tracks and adjusts for historical restatements, providing a stable time series so you can measure real performance, not just reporting changes.
- Full Provenance: Every data point is traced back to its source, giving you an audit-ready trail for complete transparency and confidence in your numbers.
Improve Your PCAF Data Quality Score
A higher PCAF data quality score signals to regulators and stakeholders that your financed emissions reporting is robust and credible. DitchCarbon's methodology is designed to directly improve your data quality. By replacing broad industry averages and unreliable estimates with verified, entity-specific data, you can significantly enhance the accuracy of your calculations.
Our focus on data provenance, coverage of private company emissions data, and sophisticated entity matching helps you achieve higher PCAF scores, streamlining assurance and strengthening stakeholder trust.
This means less time spent defending your data and more time focusing on decarbonisation strategy. Our audit-ready outputs provide the evidence you need for regulatory submissions like SFDR, TCFD, and ISSB frameworks.
From Company-Level Insight to Portfolio-Level Action
Effective portfolio management requires the ability to aggregate granular data into meaningful insights. With a reliable foundation of company emissions data, you can accurately calculate and manage your total portfolio emissions data.
Use our platform to:
- Aggregate Financed Emissions: Roll up emissions across entire investment portfolios or loan books to understand your total carbon footprint.
- Identify Carbon Hotspots: Pinpoint the key drivers of emissions within your portfolio to prioritise engagement and capital allocation.
- Model Decarbonisation Pathways: Use our historical data to analyse trends and model future scenarios, aligning your portfolio with net-zero targets.
- Benchmark Performance: Compare companies and sectors to identify leaders and laggards, informing both investment and underwriting decisions.
Stop wrestling with spreadsheets and inconsistent datasets. DitchCarbon provides the complete financed emissions data you need to manage risk, report with confidence, and drive real-world decarbonisation.
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Frequently asked questions
Get answers to the questions procurement and sustainability teams ask most often.
Sourcing reliable private company emissions data is a core challenge we solve. Our approach combines multiple methods: we integrate directly reported data where available, use sophisticated, peer-reviewed models to estimate emissions for non-disclosing entities, and cross-reference with a wide range of public and proprietary data sources. This allows us to provide extensive coverage beyond the public markets, giving you a more complete picture of your portfolio emissions.
The PCAF framework scores data quality based on its source and accuracy. Our platform directly improves your score by replacing low-quality industry averages (Score 4-5) with verified, entity-specific emissions data (Score 1-3). By providing full provenance for every data point, especially for private companies, we help you achieve the highest possible data quality score, strengthening the credibility of your financed emissions reporting.
Our data is 'audit-ready' because of its complete transparency and traceability. Every data point is linked back to its original source document, and we maintain a full version history, including any restatements made by the company. This provides a clear, verifiable evidence trail that simplifies the assurance process and gives auditors confidence in your numbers.
We have mapped over 2 million organisations globally, with extensive coverage of private companies that don't typically disclose emissions data. Our methodology combines directly reported data with sophisticated, peer-reviewed models and cross-references from thousands of public and proprietary sources. This significantly reduces the 'private market blind spot' in your portfolio analysis.
We run all data through a rigorous normalisation process. This adjusts for different reporting standards, organisational boundaries, and accounting methodologies to create a true like-for-like comparison. We also track and adjust for historical restatements, providing a stable time-series so you can measure genuine performance changes, not just reporting variations.
Yes. We provide access to reported Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data where available. This is essential for a complete view of a company's footprint and for accurately calculating your own Scope 3, Category 15 (Financed Emissions), as your portfolio companies' Scope 1 and 2 emissions contribute to your total.
We offer flexible access to suit your workflow. You can use our web platform for direct analysis, hotspot identification, and report generation. Alternatively, you can use our API to feed verified, audit-ready emissions data directly into your existing risk management platforms, BI tools, or portfolio analysis systems.
Industry averages mask the significant performance differences between individual companies. Using verified, entity-specific data allows you to identify the true leaders and laggards within your portfolio. This enables you to accurately price risk, engage with companies on their specific decarbonisation plans, and make capital allocation decisions based on precise, actionable insight rather than broad estimates.
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