As one of the key measures of positive impact, Avoided Emissions are more topical than ever. But inconsistent definitions, data gaps, reporting and misunderstanding can undermine their credibility. When financial institutions use Avoided Emissions for investment decision making and impact reporting − ensuring transparency, quality and industry alignment across methodologies is critical.
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Director, Sustainable Finance, ICE
Constantine Pretenteris is a Director of Sustainable Finance at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), helping investors identify and quantify climate risks for their portfolios. As part of his role, he works with asset owners and asset managers that want to integrate avoided emissions for screening, impact reporting and investment-decision-making. His background is in environmental economics and climate change.
Avoided Emissions Lead, WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Marvin works for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) where he leads the work on Avoided Emissions. Before joining WBCSD, he spent most of his career working on digital and sustainability transformation projects for strategy consultancy McKinsey.
Marvin holds a PhD in Geosciences from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on innovation systems, sustainability transitions, and bottom-up dynamics in the circular economy. He analyzed the role of start-ups as drivers of CE transformation processes and authored the first peer-reviewed publications to establish circular start-ups in scientific literature.
Climate and Biodiversity Specialist, Robeco
Emily Homer is a climate and biodiversity specialist at Robeco and is part of the Sustainable Investing Centre of Expertise. In this role, Emily works closely with investment teams to implement Robeco’s Net Zero Roadmap and to help manage climate and nature-related risks and opportunities. Part of this involves selecting and developing decision-useful climate and biodiversity analytics and making them accessible and usable by investors. Prior to joining Robeco, Emily was a Fixed Income portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, managing portfolios for insurance companies and pension funds. Emily is a CFA Charterholder and has a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Bath.
Senior Director, Sustainability, WM
Kristine Richmond leads efforts in integrating and implementing sustainability across WM, North America’s leading provider of environmental services, with innovative infrastructure and capabilities in sustainability, recycling, organics, and renewable energy. Kristine helps embed sustainability enterprise-wide, including circularity, climate change, social impact and sustainability reporting. With over 15 years in experience, she has also led corporate sustainability efforts at Darden Restaurants and The Coca-Cola Company, building on experience in store operations at Apple and Starbucks. Kristine earned a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, and now lives in Florida with her family, enjoying the beach and sailing.
ICE’s research on identifying and quantifying potential Avoided Emissions has highlighted how climate opportunities can be found in unlikely sectors and companies outside of the obvious candidates.
As part of the ICE Climate offering, ICE provides modelled avoided emissions data and analytics (through ICE’s Climate Transition Analytics (CTA) tool), at the company, sector and portfolio level. Product or project-level avoided emissions data can also be provided.
ICE’s research on identifying and quantifying potential Avoided Emissions has highlighted how climate opportunities can be found in unlikely sectors and companies outside of the obvious candidates.
As part of the ICE Climate offering, ICE provides modelled avoided emissions data and analytics (through ICE’s Climate Transition Analytics (CTA) tool), at the company, sector and portfolio level. Product or project-level avoided emissions data can also be provided.