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Climate risk glossary.

Plain definitions of the climate risk, emissions and disclosure terms used across Emmi's data and research.

A to K

AASB (Australian Accounting Standards Board)
Active Ownership and Engagement
Basis Risk (in Climate & Carbon Credit Markets)
Carbon Budget
Carbon Neutrality
Carbon Sink
CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism)
Climate Scenario Analysis
CSDDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive)
CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive)
Divestment
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
EU ETS (EU Emissions Trading Scheme)
Financed emissions / owned emissions
GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gas Protocol)
Greenwashing
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Kyoto Protocol

L to Z

Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (Land Use Accounting)
Machine Learning
Materiality
Maximum Downside Loss
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme
Net Zero
NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System)
Now-casting
NZ CS (Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standards)
Paris Agreement
PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials)
Physical Risk
Potential Carbon Liability (PCL)
PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment)
Safeguard Mechanism
SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board)
Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)
Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions
SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation)
Stewardship
Stranded White Elephant
TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
Temperature Alignment
Transition Risk
WACI (Weighted Average Carbon Intensity)
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