Tracking global financial institutions’ climate progress

The interactive tool to guide your climate transition

We measure progress from commitments through to real world-impact

The NZFT platform tracks financial institutions’ climate commitments, how they integrate climate considerations into governance and risk management, external engagement, and disclosure, and how those lead to material impacts in the real economy. NZFT uses 18 indicators, based on 170 standard actions benchmarked with best practices from more than 40 transition plan frameworks.

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Charting progress of 1,500 financial institutions

We track major financial institutions covering around USD 315 trillion of assets, or 63% of the global financial system, spanning five investor categories—asset owners; asset managers; insurance; PE, VC, hedge funds; and banks.

Harmonizing data from more than 50 sources

The NZFT captures, standardizes, and assesses data from 654 variables from 52 data providers. See our key data providers below, and the methodology for a full list and further details.

Methodology

Data providers

The NZFT Metadata document details all datasets used to inform the NZFT. It lists the datasets and information that make up the 654 unique variables underpinning the 18 indicators.

Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Asset Impact Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) BankTrack Bloomberg Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) CDP Center for Active Stewardship (CAS) Climate Action 100+ (CA 100+) Climate Action in Financial Institutions (CAFI) Climate Investment Coalition (CIC) Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) COGEM Diligent DivestInvest Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) ESG Book FinanceMap/InfluenceMap (FM) Fossil Free Funds (FFF) Global Climate Action Portal (GCAP) Global Coal Project Tracker (GCPT) Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker (GOGET) IJ Global IFRS Sustainability Alliance Insure our Future International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investing in Climate Chaos (ICC) Investor Agenda (IA) MSCI Urgewald Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) Net-Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU) Net-Zero Donut/Observatoire de la finance durable Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) Occupational Pensions Stewardship Council Paris Aligned Asset Owners (PAAO) Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Private Equity Climate Risks Private Participation Infrastructure (PPI) Profundo Reclaim Finance Race To Zero (RTZ) Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) ShareAction Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) Tracenable Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) UN Sustainable Funds Database We Mean Business Coalition (WMB) World Resource Institute (WRI)

Funders & partners

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The NZFT currently offers three views, with different levels of granularity to explore the progress of financial institutions on climate commitments.

FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Explore aggregated trends across all financial institutions to understand how the system as a whole is progressing the climate transition.

Financial System

How can the NZFT
help you act on the data?

The NZFT combines independent data and peer comparisons with CPI’s climate-finance expertise. We help organizations understand transition progress, identify priorities, and translate evidence into action and capital deployment. Our team can provide support through three complementary offerings:

Transition Intelligence & Market Insights

Deep-dive analysis of specific financial actors, countries, regions, and financial centers. Combining NZFT data with relevant benchmarks can identify trends, compare performance, explain progress, and highlight remaining gaps.

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Portfolio Analysis & Transition Support

Assessment of a selected group of financial institutions against global best practices and local requirements. We identify gaps in targets, governance, implementation, and impact to inform capacity-building priorities, roadmaps, and tools to support institutional decarbonization.

Analyze your portfolio and identify capacity-building needs

Climate Finance Product Design & Mobilization

Support to design and structure financial products that mobilize investment for climate solutions. Drawing on CPI’s Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, we help develop scalable instruments, including blended-finance vehicles, guarantees, risk-sharing mechanisms, and others tailored to market and investor needs.

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