March

Funding received from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme

October

Project kick-off with Dr Katharina Dittrich (principal investigator), Dr Julius Kob (research fellow), and Mohamed Qaddoura (doctoral researcher)

February - August

Data collection ’exploration of the field’ – online observation of meetings and interviews at a large asset owner, a leading service provider, a non-governmental organization (NGO), the PRI, and industry experts

August - December

Analysis of initial findings – mapping of the field and deep-dive analysis of Scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions production and curation, embedding of climate risks, usage of data and metrics by financial institutions (FIs)

January - February

Feedback conversations with partner organisations

February - October

Data collection – online observation of meetings and interviews at a large asset owner, a leading service provider and target-setting initiatives with three foci: (1) Net Zero target-setting frameworks (2) Implied Temperature Rise (ITR) methodologies, (3) Scope 3 emissions data production and curation

April

Addition to data collection – online observation of meetings and interviews at an international bank

June

Joseph Conrad (research assistant) joins the project

August

 Dr Matthias Täger (research fellow) joins the project

September

Addition to data collection – online observation of meetings and interviews at OS ClimateLink opens in a new window with a focus on Implied Temperature Rise methodologies

Cecilia Paulsson (research assistant) joins the project

January - March

Data analysis – analysing what we learned in 2022 about (1) Net Zero target-setting frameworks (2) Implied Temperature Rise methodologies, (3) Scope 3 emissions data production and curation, and the interconnections of these three

April

Data collection – continue observations and meetings with a renewed focus on "bigger questions" in climate finance

June - August

Conference season – our team members are attending a variety of conferences, including Academy of ManagementLink opens in a new window (Boston, USA), European Group of Organisation StudiesLink opens in a new window (Cagliari, Italy) and the Centre for Energy EthicsLink opens in a new window (University of St Andrews, UK)

December

Data collection – we finalise our data collection after three years of in-depth fieldwork. Many thanks to all our informants

January

Data analysis and write-up – we start our data analysis, are immersing ourselves in the literature, and starting to write up our findings