Emmi

Spirit Super achieves portfolio-wide emissions insight with Emmi

PUBLISHED

October 21, 2026

Superannuation fund
Full asset coverage
Temperature alignment
Risk evaluation
Carbon budget analysis

Australia-wide

Location

90%+ of assets

Coverage

50% by 2030

Portfolio emissions reduction

About Spirit Super

Spirit Super is a profit-for-members industry super fund with approximately $25 billion funds under management and over 321,000 members Australia-wide (as at 22 April 2022). They back hard-working Australians with support they can count on, low fees and a history of strong returns. Spirit aims to reduce 50% of Scope 1 and Scope 2 financed emissions by 2030, based on a benchmark of their portfolio in 2022.

By leveraging Emmi data, Spirit now has the tools to monitor, plan, and act on its decarbonisation goals with accuracy and consistency.

  • 90%+ portfolio coverage of financed emissions, achieved through Emmi’s machine-learning models and pragmatic data approach.
  • Granular insight into thousands of assets, pinpointing the origin of emissions across companies, funds, and managers.
  • Directionally accurate estimates in data-sparse areas using robust fallbacks and defensible assumptions.
  • Transition risk quantified at the asset, fund, and manager level, highlighting where financial risk outweighed raw emissions volume.
  • Carbon as a financial metric, enabling Spirit to align decarbonization targets with customer returns and act confidently towards a 50% reduction goal.
Ross barry

Ross barry

CIO at Spirit Super
"The data and analysis provided by Carbon Diagnostics present a compelling way for investors to inform their carbon transition journey. In our case, the numbers speak for themselves. They support concrete actions and have motivated new thinking around the opportunities we see ahead”

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