Focus Areas

Wondering how to dive in? Below is a quick guide to SFI's focus areas.

• Carbon Accounting and Emissions Liability Management (ELM): how carbon accounting ELM can make Net Zero add-up and hold those responsible for emissions accountable while enabling price discovery, and how moving from disclosure to E-liability accounting and ELM addresses the challenges of Scope 2 and Scope 3 in practice. 
• Carbon Markets: how carbon accounting and ELM solve the persistent problems with voluntary carbon markets while serving their three primary purposes: (1) speeding-up the transition to lower-carbon processes and assets, (2) protecting and enhancing natural carbon sinks, and (3) creating demand for carbon removal and sequestration.
• Transition Pathways: how carbon accounting and ELM solve the foundational challenges of transition finance through portfolio alignment.
• Insurance: how investigating a set of questions around re-imagining current models and building innovative new forms of insurance that better manage physical risk for both public and private entities.