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These tools implement in R a fundamental part of the software PACTA (Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment), which is a free tool that calculates the alignment between financial portfolios and climate scenarios (https://www.transitionmonitor.com/). Financial institutions use PACTA to study how their capital allocation impacts the climate. This package matches data from financial portfolios to asset level data from market-intelligence databases (e.g. power plant capacities, emission factors, etc.). This is the first step to assess if a financial portfolio aligns with climate goals.

Installation

Install the released version of r2dii.match from CRAN with:

# install.packages("r2dii.match")

Or install the development version of r2dii.match from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("RMI-PACTA/r2dii.match")

Example

Matching is achieved in two main steps:

1. Run fuzzy matching

match_name() will extract all unique counterparty names from the columns: direct_loantaker, ultimate_parent or intermediate_parent* and run fuzzy matching against all company names in the abcd:

match_result <- match_name(loanbook_demo, abcd_demo)
match_result 
#> # A tibble: 326 × 22
#>    id_loan id_direct_loantaker name_direct_loantaker       id_ultimate_parent
#>    <chr>   <chr>               <chr>                       <chr>             
#>  1 L1      C294                Vitale Group                UP15              
#>  2 L3      C292                Rowe-Rowe                   UP288             
#>  3 L5      C305                Ring AG & Co. KGaA          UP104             
#>  4 L6      C304                Kassulke-Kassulke           UP83              
#>  5 L6      C304                Kassulke-Kassulke           UP83              
#>  6 L7      C227                Morissette Group            UP134             
#>  7 L7      C227                Morissette Group            UP134             
#>  8 L8      C303                Barone s.r.l.               UP163             
#>  9 L9      C301                Werner Werner AG & Co. KGaA UP138             
#> 10 L9      C301                Werner Werner AG & Co. KGaA UP138             
#> # ℹ 316 more rows
#> # ℹ 18 more variables: name_ultimate_parent <chr>, loan_size_outstanding <dbl>,
#> #   loan_size_outstanding_currency <chr>, loan_size_credit_limit <dbl>,
#> #   loan_size_credit_limit_currency <chr>, sector_classification_system <chr>,
#> #   sector_classification_direct_loantaker <chr>, lei_direct_loantaker <chr>,
#> #   isin_direct_loantaker <chr>, id_2dii <chr>, level <chr>, sector <chr>,
#> #   sector_abcd <chr>, name <chr>, name_abcd <chr>, score <dbl>, …

2. Prioritize validated matches

The user should then manually validate the output of [match_name()], ensuring that the value of the column score is equal to 1 for perfect matches only.

Once validated, the prioritize() function, will choose only the valid matches, prioritizing (by default) direct_loantaker matches over ultimate_parent matches:

prioritize(match_result)
#> # A tibble: 177 × 22
#>    id_loan id_direct_loantaker name_direct_loantaker          id_ultimate_parent
#>    <chr>   <chr>               <chr>                          <chr>             
#>  1 L6      C304                Kassulke-Kassulke              UP83              
#>  2 L13     C297                Ladeck                         UP69              
#>  3 L20     C287                Weinhold                       UP35              
#>  4 L21     C286                Gallo Group                    UP63              
#>  5 L22     C285                Austermuhle GmbH               UP187             
#>  6 L24     C282                Ferraro-Ferraro Group          UP209             
#>  7 L25     C281                Lockman, Lockman and Lockman   UP296             
#>  8 L26     C280                Ankunding, Ankunding and Anku… UP67              
#>  9 L27     C278                Donati-Donati Group            UP45              
#> 10 L28     C276                Ferraro, Ferraro e Ferraro SPA UP195             
#> # ℹ 167 more rows
#> # ℹ 18 more variables: name_ultimate_parent <chr>, loan_size_outstanding <dbl>,
#> #   loan_size_outstanding_currency <chr>, loan_size_credit_limit <dbl>,
#> #   loan_size_credit_limit_currency <chr>, sector_classification_system <chr>,
#> #   sector_classification_direct_loantaker <chr>, lei_direct_loantaker <chr>,
#> #   isin_direct_loantaker <chr>, id_2dii <chr>, level <chr>, sector <chr>,
#> #   sector_abcd <chr>, name <chr>, name_abcd <chr>, score <dbl>, …

The result is a dataset with identical columns to the input loanbook, and added columns bridging all matched loans to their abcd counterpart.

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Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union LIFE program and the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag. The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders. The funders are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.