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Climate accounting has long revolved around Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions: what a company emits directly, through purchased energy and across its wider value chain. But investors are increasingly asking another question: what climate benefit can a company’s products or services help create?
Earlier this year, Tell Media Group sat down with Yi Shi, impact specialist at Pictet Asset Management, to discuss Scope 4 – also known as avoided emissions. The concept shifts the lens from a company’s carbon footprint to its wider climate handprint, or the reductions it may enable elsewhere in the economy. The conversation touched on the promise of this emerging metric, the challenge of measuring positive impact with rigour, and what Scope 4 could mean for sustainable investing. Yi Shi is a client portfolio manager and impact specialist at Pictet Asset Management, where he works at the intersection of
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