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Assessment and support guide: climate solution providers

Assessing 1.5 °C compatibility, avoided emissions, positive impacts, carbon handprint, mitigation contributions, scope 4

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Crane

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Unique selling point
Crane's USP is they fast and easy assessments with a special focus on emerging technologies
Objective
Assess emissions reduction potential of climate technologies
Launch year
2019
N/A
Opportunities score
21
Challenges score
-23
N/A count
1
1.5 °C Compatibility Assessment of tools/initiatives
Opportunities
1
Help establish a dynamic solution perspective
No identified
opportunity, N/A
Potential
opportunity (Value 1)
Some
opportunity (Value 2)
Significant
opportunity (Value 4)
2
Quick and Easy Assessment
3
Identifying acceleration potential for solutions
4
1.5 °C Compatible
5
Need focus for 11 Billion with equity encouragement (Global south agenda)
6
Solutions have Synergies with other sustainability goals
No identified
opportunity, N/A
Potential
opportunity (Value 1)
Some
opportunity (Value 2)
Significant
opportunity (Value 4)
7
+1000 and/or >10 Gigatonnes of potential solutions
8
Aligned with Mission Innovations Net-Zero Innovation Compatibility Initative
9
Focus on clustering of solutions (across existing sectors)
Challenges
1
Lock-in Potential from the solutions
No identified
challenge, N/A
Significant
challenge (Value -4)
Some
challenge (Value -2)
Potential
challenge (Value -1)
2
Supply and End-of-Pipe Focus
3
Excluding Transformative (System) Solutions
4
Only including technology innovations
5
Resource Intensive Solutions
6
Only Focus on Problems rather than Human Needs
7
Excluding other sustainability aspects (biodiversity and poverty)
No identified
challenge, N/A
Significant
challenge (Value -4)
Some
challenge (Value -2)
Potential
challenge (Value -1)
8
No filter to support sustainable solutions for an equitable world with 11 billion
9
Limiting focus to existing/traditional sectors
10
Lack of implementation in global south/no focus on 11 Billion with equity encouragement
11
No focus on clustering of solutions
1.5 °C Compability Assessment comments
Description
1. What the assessment is meant to be used for
1. Identifying solutions
2. Support solutions
3. Strategic decisions
4. Increased positive impact
5. Investor information
6. Market/user information
7. PR/Branding/Offsetting
8. Reporting
9. Other
2. Scope of assessment
1. Avoided Emissions
2. 1.5C Compatibility
3. SDG compatibility
4. Sustainability for 11 Billion Citizens
5. Other compatibility (existential risks, etc)
6. Preselected categories of solutions
7. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
8. Other
3. Stakeholder focus
1. Large companies
2. SMEs/Start-ups
3. Investors
4. Policy makers
5. Other
4. Assessment activities
1. Developing Principles (Offering high-level standards to begin to align stakholders)
2. Assessment & Internal reporting (Organizing common metrics & methodological guidelines)
3. Defining Targets (Defining strategies around specific impact goals, such as net-zero and 1.5C LED compatability)
4. Collecting and disclosing data (Advocating for and/or facilitating data transparency)
5. Standardizing evalualtion (Independent 3rd party evaluation based on publicly available data)
5. Time horizon
1. now
2. 2030
3. 2050
4. Other
6. Methodology
1. Individual LCA/assessment
2. Case studies
3. Macro assessment (solution belonging to specific area)
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Other
7. Approach
1. Reduce problems from existing sectors
2. Delivering new solutions to needs
3 .Could not determine
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. N/A
1. Reduce problems from existing sectors
2. Delivering new solutions to needs
3 .Could not determine
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. N/A
8. State of development
1. Early Beta
2. Working beta/Draft
3. Working (but limited users)
4. Fully working/Published
9. Process
1. Static (just an assessment)
2. Delta (made to help innovations/companies improve)
3. Dynamic (Explore new revenue streams and clusters)
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Other
1. Static (just an assessment)
2. Delta (made to help innovations/companies improve)
3. Dynamic (Explore new revenue streams and clusters)
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Other
10. Assessment unit
1. Individual technologies
2. Individual solutions (economic, leagal, etc)
3. Individual companies/start-ups
4. Clusters of companies/enablers
5. Companies
6. Cities
7. Countries
8. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
9. Other
11. Solution categories
1. All possible solutions
2. Predetermined areas
3. Minimum level of avoided emission
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Other
12. Solution areas
1. Technical
2. Business models
3. Financial
4. Legal
5. PR/Communication
6. Policy/Governance
7. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
8. Other/not specific
13. Process for verifying data
1. Third party
2. Open data
3. No process/nontransparent
4. Other
5. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
6. Not clear/no info provided
14. Data provided by
1. Start-up/company
2. Own data base
3. Other
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Not clear/no info provided
1. Start-up/company
2. Own data base
3. Other
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus
5. Not clear/no info provided
15. 1.5 °C pathway focus
1. P1
1. P2
1. P3
1. P4
5. N/A, unknown
Scale of operations
1. Number of impact assessments
2. Total avoided emissions
3. Total number 1.5C compatible assessments
4. Number of users
5a. Other indicator of scale: Total revenue of supported organizations/companies
5 b. Other indicator of scale: Number of countries/ cities/ other worked with
5c. Other indicator of scale: Total amount of assets represented
5d. Other indicator of scale: Other
16a. Number of impact assessments
3200
16b. Total avoided emissions
100
16c. Total number 1.5 °C compatible assessments
17. Organizations behind
Description comments

What the assessment is meant to be used for
2. Support solutions: Potential for avoided emissions for existing solutions/technologies source
4. Increased positive impact: Potential for avoided emissions for existing solutions/technologies source
5. Investor information: Stated as a main driver for developing the tool source
7. PR/Branding/Offsetting: Stated as a main driver for developing the tool source

Scope of assessment
1. Avoided Emissions: Stated as main focus source

Stakeholder focus
1. Large companies: Focus is understood to be on individual private companies that actively work with climate solutions

Assessment activities
2. Assessment & Internal reporting (Organizing common metrics & methodological guidelines): Main focus is on conducting assessments of emissions potential for a given technology

Time horizon
4. Other: Depends on the technology/innovation assessed source

Methodology
1. Individual LCA/assessment: The main service is individual assessments

Approach
1. Reduce problems from existing sectors:Assessment is based on existing solutions submitted to the tool

State of development
4. Fully working/Published: Complete assessments are offered as a service

Process
4. Conducting solution assessments is not a focus: To a large extent ambivalent to the process of specific innovations

Assessment unit
1. Individual technologies: Provide assessments of individual technologies/solutions
3. Individual companies/start-ups: Generally focused on start-ups and individual companies/organisations

Solution categories
2. Predetermined areas: Main focus is on technologies rather than economic/legal/non-technological solutions

Process for verifying data
1. Third party: Main portion of data (geography, time, technology area, market information etc) is provided by user, while CRANE provide projections and emissions data based on that data

Data provided by
1. Start-up/company: Main portion of data (geography, time, technology area, market information etc) is provided by user, while CRANE provide projections and emissions data based on that data

1.5 C Pathway Focus
1. P1: As the tool is likely to assess a wide range of solutions, it is ambivalent to the 1.5C pathways

Scale of operations
1. Number of impact assessments: The results of CRANE assessments are publically available potential avoided emissions
5d. Other indicator of scale: Other: Prime Coalition, Rho Impact, Greenometry, Clean Energy Trust source

Initial categorisation done by Mission Innovation NCI
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Support solutions
Investor information
PR/Branding/Offsetting
Avoided Emissions
Individual technologies
Individual companies/start-ups
Support solutions
Investor information
PR/Branding/Offsetting

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