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RMI, in cooperation with main international banks—BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, Societe Generale, and Commonplace Chartered—and in session with business, specialists, and extra monetary establishments has developed a first-of-its-kind framework to allow banks to measure and disclose their aviation lending portfolios’ emissions in a constant and complete method.

At this time, RMI introduced the launch of the Pegasus Tips, the primary voluntary climate-aligned finance framework for the aviation sector, designed to assist banks independently measure and disclose the emissions depth and/or local weather alignment of their aviation lending portfolios in comparison with a 1.5°C state of affairs.

The aviation business contributes 2.5% of worldwide CO₂ emissions and is the quickest rising transportation sector. The business’s success in transitioning to a low-carbon economic system will depend on a big ramp up of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), in addition to additional growth of hydrogen and battery-electric propulsion and fleet modernization. Monetary establishments can play an vital function in supporting a variety of options for the sector by means of financing the applied sciences, initiatives, and firms that may contribute to a low carbon future.

The aviation sector’s skill to decarbonize depends on driving progress throughout a set of key know-how levers—a few of which they’ve the flexibility to affect immediately, and a few of which would require collaboration throughout sectors and with policymakers. Underpinning the Pegasus Tips is an understanding that monetary establishments and airways should work collectively to foster options that may assist the business decarbonize, along with policymakers, clients, airports, gas producers, and NGOs. Collaboration with banks, traders, and policymakers will likely be significantly vital to speed up the manufacturing of SAF—probably the most vital lever of decarbonization for the sector.

The Pegasus Tips had been designed by RMI and formed by a core working group of main monetary establishments and draw upon current requirements together with these of the Science-Primarily based Targets initiative (SBTi) and the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group’s Carbon Offsetting and Discount Scheme for Worldwide Aviation (ICAO CORSIA). Professional bono authorized recommendation was offered by Watson Farley & Williams all through growth. The framework is designed to be appropriate with the Web-Zero Banking Alliance’s pointers.

Along with the 5 banks who supported growth of the Tips, RMI is happy to share that a further two monetary establishments will take up this technique—Caixa Financial institution and CIC—and two are testing implementation of the methodology and assessing future utilization of the Tips—ING and Export Improvement Financial institution of Canada.

Grace Cheung, Common Supervisor of Sustainability at Cathay Pacific Airways​ stated, “We welcome the financing neighborhood’s efforts to standardize the evaluation of the local weather influence of their aviation portfolios. At Cathay, we imagine collaboration is essential to a sustainable future and are dedicated to our ‘Greener Collectively’ imaginative and prescient. We hope the Pegasus Tips will likely be extensively adopted.”

Much like frameworks accomplished for metal (Sustainable Metal Rules), delivery (Poseidon Rules), and aluminum (Sustainable Aluminum Finance Framework), the monetary establishments that leverage the Pegasus Tips will likely be geared up to:

• Carry out a standardized evaluation to calculate their portfolio emissions depth and alignment with a 1.5°C state of affairs
• Use a constant strategy to accessing high-quality and credible information
• Disclose their aviation portfolio emissions depth and/or alignment outcomes yearly for transparency, whereas preserving shopper info confidential

A launch occasion will likely be held by webinar on April 4, 2024. The Pegasus Tips can be found without cost and will be downloaded right here.

Tracey McDermott, Steering Group Chair of the Web-Zero Banking Alliance and Group Head, Conduct, Monetary Crime and Compliance, Commonplace Chartered Financial institution stated, “The Web Zero Banking Alliance welcomes the Aviation climate-alignment methodology developed by RMI in collaboration with main financiers. Members of the Alliance have dedicated to setting portfolio decarbonisation targets on this vital sector. This system will help banks in understanding the web zero pathways for the sector and thus assist banks as they search to measure and transparently disclose their local weather alignment and set targets on an impartial and particular person foundation. This will even assist to tell discussions between monetary establishments and their shoppers to assist their transition to a web zero economic system. We look ahead to persevering with our collaboration with RMI within the coming years as we navigate the transition to web zero.”

Jose Abramovici, International Head of Asset Finance Group of Crédit Agricole CIB stated, “After practically two years of labor, we have now designed a framework for lenders to precisely assess and consider the emissions depth of their aviation mortgage guide. This isn’t a theoretical train—that is key to supporting the local weather alignment of the business.”

Yann Sonnallier, International Head of Aviation Finance at Societe Generale stated “Societe Generale is extraordinarily proud to be a founder and preliminary consumer of the Pegasus Tips, and of all of the collective work achieved since 2022 to ascertain this reference methodology and framework, in step with NZBA necessities, and at the good thing about all aviation stakeholders.”

Bertrand Dehouck, Head of Transportation Capital Markets at BNP Paribas stated “Over the previous two years we have now been centered on constructing a strong methodology to measure the emissions depth of our aviation enterprise. By understanding what to measure, learn how to measure it and the place to supply the required information, we’re higher geared up to grasp the core levers of decarbonisation and to assist the sector’s low-carbon transition.”

Abhishek Pandey, International Head of Transportation Finance of Commonplace Chartered stated, “We’re delighted to have been a part of this vital initiative during the last two years, working alongside main banks and fascinating broadly throughout the business.  The Pegasus Tips offers NZBA signatories the instruments to navigate the pathways and set targets in the direction of the decarbonization of the aviation business.”

 © 2024 Rocky Mountain Institute. Printed with permission. Courtesy of RMI.