ASSET4 Carbon Data & Estimates

Due to the various cap-and-trade policies in place and being proposed as well as investor-driven programs like the Carbon Disclosure Project, monitoring total CO2 emissions has become an essential element in analysing a company’s potential liabilities, performance and risk.

However, the timeliness of reporting on total CO2 emissions varies from sector to sector, industry to industry and even company to company. In fact, in 2007 one third of the companies in the ASSET4 universe reported on their total CO2 emissions and few companies have reported on their 2008 emissions. Now you can monitor the carbon exposure of reporting and non-reporting companies by using the ASSET4 Carbon Data & Estimates.

In order to provide investors with as much information as possible, ASSET4 has developed three approaches to estimate the total CO2 emissions for 2007 and 2008 when that value has not been reported yet or when a company does not report the value at all. The models work with historical carbon and energy data normalised by number of employees and revenue and are based on ASSET4's industry-leading extra-financial database covering over 2,500 global companies.