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CHAPTER 6
Measuring Climate Risk
Carbon footprints, emission scopes and scenarios
Opening question
“How much carbon is in my portfolio — and what would a carbon price do to it?”
In this chapter
- The three scopes of greenhouse gas emissions, and why Scope 3 is hard
- Absolute emissions and carbon intensity at company level
- Financed emissions, carbon footprint and weighted average carbon intensity of a portfolio, with a worked example
- The pitfalls of portfolio carbon metrics
- Climate scenarios and what they are used for
- A carbon price stress test on company profits
- Mapping physical risk: hazards, exposure and vulnerability
- Climate risk in Vietnam: the Mekong Delta, coastal cities and a coal-heavy power system
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This chapter is in the full book
Chapter 1 is free to read online. The full text of chapter 6 — with its tables, figures, worked examples and practice lab — is available in the complete edition of ESG and Sustainable Investing: From Theory to Practice — Vietnam Readiness (Volume 4, NXW Investment Library).
Read Chapter 1 freeGet the full book — [email protected]Sections of this chapter
6.1 Why measure carbon?
6.2 Emission scopes
6.3 Scope 3: the hard part
6.4 From companies to portfolios
6.5 Pitfalls of carbon metrics
6.6 Climate scenarios
6.7 A carbon price stress test
6.8 Physical risk: hazards, exposure and vulnerability
6.9 Climate risk in Vietnam