Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
Publications
Towards a Global Baseline for Net-zero Transition Planning
This guide provides an overview of the voluntary, pan-financial sector net-zero transition planning tools and guidance developed by GFANZ in 2022, and how these resources can be used together to support financial institutions’ efforts to develop and implement net-zero transition plans.
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.
Financing the Managed Phaseout of Coal-Fired Power Plants in Asia Pacific
This report, which addresses financing the managed phaseout of coal-fired power plants in the Asia-Pacific region, aims to provide practical, voluntary guidance for net zero-committed financial institutions considering the financing of coal phaseout transactions.
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.
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.
Call to Action: One Year On
This publication revisits the five policy levers of the 2021 Call to Action to draw out how they can support government transition planning, highlighting the approaches being explored by financial institutions, and sharing a view of lessons learned.
Actions to Mobilize Capital to Emerging Markets & Developing Economies
This publication reiterates that GFANZ will continue to work with stakeholders to create the right conditions for increased investment in support of global net-zero transition. It outlines the progress that GFANZ has driven in critical areas such as data and transparency, support for EM&DE transition, and investment.
Asia-Pacific Case Studies on Components of Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans
This supplementary report to Recommendations and Guidance on Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans (2022),” collates 12 case studies from GFANZ APAC members and features components of transition plans, with the hope that sharing regional practices and context to the framework’s themes and components provides value to the financial community.
GFANZ 2022 Progress Report
This report details the progress GFANZ has made in 2022 under our program of work to support financial institutions in operationalizing their net-zero commitments, accelerating capital mobilization to EM&DEs, and advocating for credible policies and standards to enable net-zero transition across the globe.
