The climate change movement is as strong as ever since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals have now created a blueprint to achieve a more sustainable future. However, the current (i) volume of investment; (ii) pace of progress in clean technology; and (iii) size of emissions pricing will all need to drastically increase to make a material impact on slowing climate change.

Synechron’s Sustainable Finance Investments Accelerator allows investors to create end-user configured stranded asset risk scenarios to model the future price impact on stocks of a low-carbon transition economy. Users will be able to identify alpha-generating opportunities that fit with their impact investing objectives. It is an API-based solution that can be exposed through a Wealth Management platform or a Platform-as-a-Service model. Financial advisors may choose to offer the stranded asset risk service to allow their investor clients to model their own stranded asset investment opportunities

The Accelerator uses Data Science, business logic and user-generated profiles to drive ESG data aggregation, standardization, issuance opportunities, index creation, pricing generation, and investment modeling. This was achieved by partnering with an industry leading provider Sustainalytics to pull in company emissions data, model it against the end-user’s projected climate scenario, and create a recommended securities investment feed.