Guidance on Use of Sectoral Pathways for Financial Institutions

This publication offers guidance and a framework to help financial institutions evaluate suitability of sectoral pathways in their transition planning process and implementation efforts.

Executive Summary Translations

GFANZ Sectoral Pathways for Financial Institutions (June 2022)

Recommendations and Guidance on Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans

This publication describes how financial institutions across the financial system can operationalize their net-zero commitments and support the real-economy transition.

Executive Summary

This document presents the key concepts, recommendations, and guidance for net-zero transition planning in financial institutions.

Fundamentals, Recommendations, and Guidance

This document presents voluntary, pan-sector, globally-applicable recommendations of the elements of a net-zero transition plan with accompanying guidance, examples, and case studies. Also contained herein are details on the core concepts that GFANZ believes underlie the elements of a net-zero transition plan.

Scaling Transition Finance and Real-economy Decarbonization, Supplement to the 2022 Net-zero Transition Plans report

This GFANZ Secretariat Technical Review Note further develops the Transition Finance strategies by providing a supplement to the 2022 GFANZ NZTP guidance and discusses potential decarbonization contribution methodologies as a complement to today’s metrics.

Scaling Transition FInance and Real-economy Decarbonization, Supplement to the 2022 Net-zero Transition Plans report

Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Driving Enhancement, Convergence, and Adoption

This publication provides a practitioner perspective for measuring the alignment of investment, lending, and underwriting activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement and critical 2050 global net-zero objectives. Practitioner-useful use cases and case studies outline how portfolio alignment methods and metrics are used today.

The Managed Phaseout of High-emitting Assets

This publication provides a preliminary and high-level approach to support the identification of assets where managed phaseout could be appropriate, offers an initial overview of potential financial mechanisms that could support managed phaseout, and includes initial guidance on the features of a credible asset-level phaseout plan.

The Managed Phaseout of High-emitting Assets (June 2022)

Expectations for Real-economy Transition Plans

This publication distills existing guidance to bring clarity and help companies in the real economy develop credible transition plans. Additionally, the report brings much-needed consistency on metrics and data points required by global financial institutions to evaluate the progress and credibility of companies’ net-zero transition plans.

Expectations for Real economy Transition Plans September 2022