Lenders and investors don't just need their own footprint - they need their portfolio's. SYNE covers all seven PCAF asset classes, with a data-quality score attached position by position, aligned to PCAF and GCF expectations.
PCAF's flagship asset class, and usually the largest single share of a diversified portfolio's financed emissions. Attribution runs by ownership share for equity, and outstanding-amount share for bonds.
Emissions attributed by your share of the company, not the company's total footprint applied wholesale.
Covers common equity, preferred equity, corporate bonds and hybrid instruments in one methodology.
Every position carries a PCAF data-quality score from 1 (verified, reported) to 5 (estimated, unverified).
Listed equity and corporate bonds typically represent the single biggest asset class in a diversified investment book - getting the attribution and data quality right here moves the whole portfolio number more than any other category.
Financed emissions for lending and private equity where there's no public market price to anchor attribution - scored against borrower-level activity data where it exists, sector averages where it doesn't.
Where a borrower is already on SYNE or submits data directly, financed emissions are built from their real activity data.
Where borrower data isn't available, a sector-average emission factor is applied and clearly flagged as such.
Every loan and unlisted equity position rolls up into one portfolio-level financed-emissions figure.
Emissions attributed to project finance - energy, infrastructure and industrial projects - weighted by the lender's equity or debt share in the specific project, not the sponsor's total balance sheet.
Emissions attributed strictly by your financial share in the named project.
Where project-level operational data exists, it's used directly rather than a sector proxy.
Building-level energy and emissions data attributed to the financed share of the property - covering both commercial real estate lending and residential mortgages under one methodology.
Emissions calculated from actual building energy use where available, not a regional average per square metre.
Financed share calculated against outstanding loan balance relative to property value.
One methodology spanning both commercial real estate lending and residential mortgage books.
Financed emissions for vehicle loans and leases, scored against vehicle-level fuel type and mileage data rather than a flat per-vehicle average.
Emissions calculated from the specific vehicle's fuel type and estimated or reported annual mileage.
Financed emissions scaled to the outstanding loan or lease balance against vehicle value.
Commercial fleet lending aggregates to a single fleet-level financed-emissions figure.
Country-level emissions attributed to sovereign bond holdings, using national GHG inventory data rather than a corporate-style activity model.
Sovereign emissions sourced from official national inventory submissions as the base data set.
Emissions attributed by your holding's share of the country's GDP or total outstanding sovereign debt.
The seventh piece isn't a separate asset class - it's the discipline that ties the other six together. Every position, in every asset class, carries the same 1-to-5 PCAF data-quality score.
Actual reported emissions data, verified against underlying records - the highest confidence tier.
Modelled from activity data or physical output where direct emissions reporting isn't available.
The lowest confidence tier - a sector-average emission factor applied where no better data exists, always flagged.
PCAF-aligned financed emissions data feeds directly into Green Finance's sustainability-linked pricing.