Zfolio announces strategic partnership with ESG Book

Collaboration combines Zfolio‘s platform with ESG Book’s sustainability, enabling clients to quickly and easily use ESG Book data to calculate their financed emissions.

• With over 200,000 corporate disclosures, ESG Book combines sustainability data, analytics, and disclosure reporting in a comprehensive ecosystem.
• Zfolio leverages ESG Book‘s data by providing additional information and technology to automate portfolio emissions calculations, matching equities and bonds to specific company data using over 45 million common identifiers.
• The Zfolio platform also calculates financed emissions of asset classes including real estate and infrastructure, with country specific emissions data and covering more than 4 million private companies.
• ESG Book provides high quality data on reported and estimated emissions for over 40,000 companies worldwide, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.
• Partnership enables clients to get full financed emissions calculations on large portfolios in a few clicks, with results aligned with global regulatory standards.

7 October 2024 – London and New York – ESG Book, provider of the world’s leading single access point for sustainability-related data on public and private companies, today announced a new strategic partnership with Zfolio, the leading platform for managing financed emissions.

Demands are growing for financial institutions to manage climate risks and opportunities in their investment and lending decisions, and for systems to more accurately assess, monitor and report on climate-related financial risks. However, while financed emissions has become a critical area of focus for financial institutions, ensuring best practice and alignment with industry standards can be complex and costly.

Through the new partnership, Zfolio leverages ESG Book’s market-leading sustainability data by providing additional information and technology to automate portfolio emissions calculations, matching equities and bonds to specific company data using over 45 million common identifiers.

Zfolio’s portfolio emissions management platform also calculates the financed emissions of asset classes including real estate, infrastructure, project finance, and vehicle loans. The system includes country specific emission factors as well as data on over four million private companies.

ESG Book provides high quality data on reported and estimated emissions for over 40,000 companies worldwide, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.

The collaboration enables clients to get full financed emissions calculations on their portfolios in just a few clicks, with the results aligned to the latest global regulatory standards, and including detailed emissions breakdowns.

Maria Mähl, Head of US Client Solutions at ESG Book, said: “Given the complexities of calculating financed emissions, financial institutions are increasingly turning to advanced tools that can achieve greater accuracy and efficiency in meeting climate transition goals. Through our new partnership with Zfolio, we are excited to offer clients with the market’s leading solution to address their portfolio emissions needs.”

Peter Howard, Founder and CEO of Zfolio, said: “Combining the quality and breadth of ESG Book data with Zfolio’s technology means asset managers of any size can get the most accurate financed emissions calculations easily and efficiently from a single source across all asset classes. No other platform in the market has that capability.”