Document summary
Within the landscape of carbon metrics, it is sometimes difficult to find the right direction. This report builds a compass to guide you through current and developing carbon assessment tools: What can they tell you? What do they not tell you? What are the main methodological choices and how do they affect the end results? This report explores and answers these questions in a simple and user-friendly way by looking at three types of metrics: carbon footprints, alternative and complementary measures (including greenbrown share and ‘avoided emissions’) and static/forward-looking benchmarks. It reviews the methodology of the main data providers on the market and details the results of a series of workshops organised by the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).