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PCAF Calculation Infrastructure

The calculation engine
for financed emissions.

Peercarbon applies PCAF methodology to your portfolio data, locks the calculation logic, and generates evidence packs that prove exactly how every number was derived.

One engine. One source of truth. Zero spreadsheet risk.

The Control Problem

Where financed emissions approaches
fail under scrutiny.

Institutions are expected to defend financed emissions outputs under rigid global frameworks while operating systems that allow discretion, drift, and risk to accumulate faster than audit cycles can surface them.

This is not an effort problem. It is a control problem.

Hidden Discretion

Manual overrides, undocumented assumptions, and spreadsheet logic introduce exposure that often surfaces only during committee challenge or audit review.

Op Risk

Logic Drift

As standards evolve and interpretations shift, results change across reporting periods without a clear, versioned explanation of what changed or why.

Comparability Failure

Unbounded Risk Surface

Heterogeneous portfolios require different attribution logic, AI-assisted workflows blur interpretation, and raw customer data is exported externally.

Exposure

Peercarbon is designed to eliminate these failure modes by construction.

How the system works

At no point does
discretionary logic decide results.

Messy Portfolio
Data
Perimeter
Standardized &
Minimized
Governed
Interpretation
Deterministic
Computation
Replayable
Audit Trail
Committee
Ready
Data Control By Design

We minimize
data sharing risk.

Peercarbon is architected to reduce data-sharing risk and procurement friction. Raw customer identifiers and source records remain inside the bank perimeter.

  • Data Residency

    Data stored in tenant-isolated database partitions.

  • Access Boundary

    No cross-tenant data access; row-level security enforced at database layer.

Bank Perimeter
ID: LOCKED
Minimization Filter
Verification Core
SECURE
Governed Intelligence

Intelligence is applied only where discretion currently hides.

This includes bounded, task-specific agents operating under strict governance constraints. We do not use AI to hallucinate results. We use it to detect when methodology rules are being broken.

Methodologies are version-locked

Every calculation is tied to a specific, immutable version of the PCAF or internal standard.

Attribution paths are deterministic

The logic used to attribute emissions to a loan is fixed before computation begins.

Logic is replayable

Any result can be perfectly reconstructed during audit years later.

Logic Enforcement Monitor
Active
01 const attributionLogic = lockVersion('PCAF_2025_v1');
02 if (discretionaryOverride) throw new AuditViolationError();
03 // Result is immutable once computed
04 return deterministicOutput;

Determinism as a system property.

Peercarbon enforces determinism by locking logic before computation begins. Constraints are consistent across institutions.

System Architecture

Data Source → Ingestion → Validation → Calculation Engine → Evidence Store → Export ↓ [Reject: Schema Violation]

Ingestion

  • • Accepts CSV, Excel, JSON, API
  • • Validates schema before processing
  • • Hashes uploads for integrity verification

Calculation Engine

  • • Applies attribution logic per workspace configuration
  • • Retrieves emission factors from locked factor set
  • • Outputs emissions per record with DQ score

Evidence Store

  • • Immutable append-only log
  • • Every calculation linked to methodology version
  • • Exportable as evidence pack (PDF, JSON)

Access Control

Role escalation requires explicit assignment. No implicit permission inheritance.

Role Permissions
Operator Upload data, view calculations, export reports
Reviewer All operator permissions + approve/reject workspace transitions
Admin All reviewer permissions + manage users, configure factor sets

Integration

Method Specification
REST API OpenAPI 3.0 compliant. JWT authentication. Rate-limited.
Batch Upload CSV/Excel with defined schema. Validation errors returned per row.
Export JSON, CSV, PDF evidence packs. SFTP or API retrieval.
AUDIT-READY OUTPUT

The 47-Page Evidence Pack.

When the auditor asks "how did you get that number?"—you hand them this.

01

Methodology Section

PCAF v3 (2022) reference, formulas used

02

Factor Set Details

Source, version, SHA-256 hash, uncertainty %

03

Data Quality Distribution

DQ scores by exposure count and emissions weight

04

WDQS Calculation

Portfolio-level weighted data quality score

05

Event Chain

Append-only audit trail with hash verification

See a Sample Evidence Pack
pcaf_methodology_v3.json ✓ HASHED
factor_set_kenya_2024.json ✓ HASHED
dq_distribution.json ✓ HASHED
wdqs_calculation.json ✓ HASHED
event_chain_manifest.json ✓ HASHED
Evidence pack integrity verified

Standardize your financed emissions logic.

We are currently accepting institutions for Q3 2026.