Our Work
We’re working to help everyone align their finances with their climate and social goals.
Our approach:
We start at the very beginning of impact generation by developing pioneering research. Then we work throughout the development cycle to transform our findings into powerful solutions that enable organizations and individuals to maximize the positive impact of their finances.
Finally, we work to generate scale…
Research
Conduct pioneering research illuminating the hidden link between finances and climate.
Build
Create the data, tools, and solutions for organizations and individuals to utilize their finances for positive change.
Inspire
Raise global awareness about this critical, overlooked issue and inspire everyone to act.
Scale
Make everything we do accessible for everyone, today for the good of tomorrow.
How we scale our impact:
Provide free advisory and consulting services where we work hand in hand with organizations and help them navigate their efforts to maximize the positive impact of their financial management.
Publish free, open-source educational resources that illuminate the hidden link between money and climate change and help guide organizations and individuals through their responsible finance journey.
Hands-on advisory & consulting services
Topo Finance provides free advisory and consulting services to companies and organizations that want to ensure their finances align with their environmental and social objectives. Our team of experts utilizes our four-phased approach to create meaningful, measurable impact.
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We start by understanding your climate goals and financial management, and sharing our research findings about the connected fields of finance, climate, and equity. We then measure your financed emissions using our proprietary data and tools, which enables us to set a baseline of the impact generated by your organization’s complex financial management ecosystem.
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Second, we imagine what a world for your organization looks like without limitations, doing the most it can with its most powerful resources for change—its finances. From there, we set long-term objectives that ensure focus and will guide all future efforts.
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Next, we work with you to engage with existing and potential financial firms and providers to analyze the marketplace of responsible products and services. With this knowledge, we then craft a strategy that solidifies your near-term objectives and the resources needed to reach these goals.
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Finally, we help you put this high-level strategy into action by creating a comprehensive road map for how your organization can decarbonize its finances while also meeting its complex financial needs and services. We then help you establish a framework and set of measurable key performance indicators that will enable you to evaluate your organization's progress and ensure its finances are aligned with its other efforts to create a more sustainable, just world.
Research and educational resources
We develop groundbreaking research and insights that illuminate the hidden link between your money and climate change. Then we translate that knowledge into publicly available tools and guides that help you align your financial management with your values.
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Report: The Carbon Bankroll 2.0
The breakthrough report illuminates the huge and untapped climate impact of the U.S. financial system, how it is undermining leading companies’ climate action, and why companies’ financial management may be their greatest lever for climate progress.
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Report: The Carbon Bankroll 1.0
The report details our groundbreaking analysis of the hidden climate impact of corporate finances and suggests how companies can leverage their financial practices to accelerate the decarbonization of the financial sector.
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Report: Saving (for) the Planet
This report, produced in partnership with Project Drawdown, reveals how personal banking decisions in the U.S. can undermine or accelerate individual climate action. Our research illuminates that where a person banks is one of the most important consumer decisions they make related to their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tool: The Individual Cash Calculator
With this tool, individuals can measure both the emissions their banking enables and the climate benefits of moving their money to greener banks. By doing so, the tool helps illuminate that where individuals bank is one of the most important consumer climate decisions individuals make.
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Guide: How to Engage Your Banks
In partnership with BankFWD, we developed a guide to help companies engage with their banks and conduct a qualitative assessment of their banks’ climate performance and trajectory.
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Guide: Greening Cash
In partnership with our colleagues at Exponential Roadmap Initiative (a United Nations-affiliated entity), we built a comprehensive guide for how business leaders can reduce the emissions from their company’s cash holdings—a critical and overlooked driver of corporate greenhouse gas emissions.