Publications

The Project Frame community aims to advance a common taxonomy and methodological best practices for assessing forward-looking emissions impact.

The publications below, created collaboratively by the Project Frame Content Working Group, are part of an expanding library of resources.

Guidance

Project Frame Methodology:
Evaluating Greenhouse Gas Impact for Early-Stage Investments

Take a deep dive into assessing emissions impact with Project Frame’s latest methodology guidance, designed to walk analysts through the key steps of evaluating greenhouse gas impact for early-stage investments.

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Future Emissions Impact Assessment

Case Studies

Developed by the Project Frame Content Working Group, Case Studies advance the practice of forward-looking emissions impact assessment by showcasing different approaches and tools, uncovering the many decisions behind forward-looking GHG Impact Measurement and Management.

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Kelsey Litwin 10/7/24 Kelsey Litwin 10/7/24

Project Frame 2024 Focus Group Recommendations

Project Frame’s 2024 Focus Group helped develop consensus in areas where our Content Working Group was challenged to find resolution: updated definitions for impact and additionally, renaming attribution, and more.

Kelsey Litwin 3/19/24 Kelsey Litwin 3/19/24

Project Frame Annual Survey Results 2024

Project Frame’s 2024 Annual Survey provides insights into the state of forward-looking emissions impact assessment among those investing in early-stage climate tech, including factors like the motivations behind assessing impact, types of impact assessed and reported, and resources that help impact analysts in their work.

Additional Resources

Investor Profiles

2150

First round publication completed April 2023

Autodesk Foundation

First round publication completed December 2022.

AENU

First round publication completed December 2022.

Astanor

First round publication completed November 2023

The Builders Fund

First round publication completed April 2024

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Glossary

Additionality

An attribute of impact, requiring an investor or company's thoughtful and reasonable articulation of the degree to which its support causes a change in an outcome that would have not otherwise happened (in a no-intervention or business as usual baseline scenario).

Attribution

The process of allocating credit for GHG impact based on the relative contributions of various participants in the value chain.

Audit

Verification that claims of GHG impact are free from errors, omissions, or misstatements. This is also associated with third-party verification of an investor’s impact methodology and practices.

Baseline Scenario (also referred to as incumbent scenario)

A projection of GHG emissions over time, representing what would have happened in the absence of an investment or a climate solution.

Direct “Component” Solution

A part of an overall solution that plays a critical role in delivering GHG impact. The GHG impact will depend on the use case for the product that contains the component.

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