Project Frame welcomes new Content Working Group to promote better GHG impact assessment practices

May 25

An expanded group of climate investors and subject-matter experts come together to continue to develop methodology guidance, case studies, and more.

As interest around assessing the future GHG impact of investments grows, so does the Project Frame community. But as more investors and entrepreneurs look to ensure that their work is reducing greenhouse gas emissions at great scale, more information, resources, and strategies are needed.

To meet this need, Project Frame is launching a new and expanded Content Working Group to include over 35 members from 30 organizations who will work together through a 14-month workplan.

The objective of the Content Working Group is to build consensus around the terminology, methodologies, and best practices for investors dedicated to assessing and reporting forward-looking emissions impact.

New this year, the Content Working Group is divided into subgroups, each with their own areas of focus. This structure will enable the group to increase the quantity and variety of resources created, responding to various needs articulated by the climate investors and experts in the Frame community.

“As our community has grown over the last year, we’ve seen the desire for more support in the form of resources and discussions,“ said Keri Browder, Director of Project Frame and Director of Impact Accountability at Prime Coalition, the convener of Frame.
“We are excited to be able to dive into a wider variety of topics as we aim to answer key questions about measuring and managing emissions impact.”

One such subgroup will build upon the efforts of Frame’s 2022-2023 Content Working Group, focusing on pre-investment methodology guidance. They will continue the conversations started during the creation of Frame’s Pre-Investment Considerations: Diving Deeper Into Assessing Greenhouse Gas Impact by periodically updating and adding to the guidance as consensus around best practices builds.

Other subgroups, responding to requests from the Frame community to diversify content, will focus on sharing case studies and managing a question board, respectively. The former will allow the Content Working Group to tease out lessons learned from which the community can grow while the latter will encourage discussions that extend beyond Frame’s bi-monthly Community Meetings.

As a complement to Frame’s pre-investment methodology, an additional subgroup will explore the creation of an introductory course to guide investors and entrepreneurs through the forward-looking GHG emissions impact assessment process.

Project Frame’s 2023-2024 Content Working Group includes members from: AENU, Accenture, Ara Partners, Astanor, Autodesk Foundation, Azolla Ventures, Bridges Fund Management, Builders Vision, Carbon Equity, Ceres, Clean Energy Ventures, Climate Investments (CI), Energy Impact Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Just Climate, Kara, Morgan Stanley, MoreScope (xIQ), MUUS, Nysnø Climate Investments, Prelude Ventures, Prime Coalition, Rho Impact, The Roda Group, SET Ventures, Starshot Capital, World Fund, and Zero Carbon Capital.