Iceberg Data Lab - Carbon Footprint
Data category
- Environmental data
- Research data
The data offers solutions for:
- Carbon footprinting
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Reporting: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
Who are the data users?
- Financial institutions
- Investors
What asset class does the data cover?
- Fixed income
- Listed equity
- Private equity
- Real assets
- Real estate
Brief description of the data offering
IDL's Carbon Footprint is a climate approach that has been in development since 2017 and is operated by Iceberg Data Lab. It calculates the carbon footprint of each corporation through a bottom-up approach, allowing it to distinguish issuers based on the impact of their product flows throughout their value chain (Scope 3).
Most climate scores and benchmarks are based on intensity calculated on financial results, such as sector revenues, to compare companies.
However, high-end products (like brand apparel) may see their environmental footprint shrink vs comparable ones thanks to their pricing policy, strongly biasing environmental analysis towards highly refined products at the end of a value chain or high-end ones.
To remove this bias, we model physical flows in order to appraise companies’ real environmental impact.
All our scores, such as climate scores and alignment (ITR), are then based on these physical intensities, in order to provide a sound merit order within the sector, comparing companies’ social utility (provision of energy, food, housing, etc.) with their environmental cost (GHG emissions, for instance). This also enables benchmarking companies with their sectoral targets using the same physical units used in the sectoral framework, such as SBT.
This dataset allows financial institutions (banks & asset managers) to more accurately calculate the carbon footprint of their portfolio, position companies against their peers within sectors, and to integrate this data into their decision-making processes.
Where and how do you source your data?
Company-reported data and sustainability reports, when available and reliable. If company data is not available or incomplete, IDL models the data using sector, commodity, and geography-specific parameters.
Open-source databases provided by governments, central banks, and scientific organizations.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases and financial/environmental datasets for product-level impacts.
Physical flows and input-output models (such as our proprietary Wunderpus model) to estimate emissions through the entire value chain, covering scopes 1, 2, and 3 for high granularity and sector comparability.
Independent scientific studies and internationally recognized frameworks (e.g., IPCC, IEA, SBTi, TNFD, PBAF) for methodologies and benchmark data.
What is the cost for your data offering?
Pricing depends on coverage requirements and can be provided upon request at [email protected]