The CC-EE Platform
The Climate Contribution Evidence Engine is an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platform that automates corporate climate analysis across four sequential stages:
- Data Collection : a distributed web crawler systematically scans annual reports, CSRD filings, earnings calls, news articles, and corporate websites across all EU languages. Content is stored in a vector database optimized for semantic retrieval.
- Evidence Identification : multilingual semantic queries, combined with rule-based filters and multimodal RAG, retrieve the most relevant excerpts from both textual and visual data sources.
- Data Scoring : a language model evaluates retrieved excerpts against more than 50 climate indicators, assigning confidence scores and verifying findings against IPCC 1.5°C pathways and the IEA Net-Zero-by-2050 scenario.
- Verification : a dashboard for human reviewers displays text excerpts, indicator labels, and full citation trails and a feedback loop generates training data for continuous model improvement.
The CC-EE evaluates corporate climate performance across three complementary dimensions:
- ACT-Core Indicators — Is the transition plan credible? This pillar assesses the quality and credibility of corporate transition plans, examining GHG target-setting, governance structures, low-carbon investment commitments, and actual performance against 1.5°C pathways.
- Climate Solutions — Is the company delivering green outcomes? This pillar measures companies’ concrete contributions to decarbonization through green products and services, including EU Taxonomy-aligned revenues and avoided emissions.
- Climate Finance — Is the company financing climate action? This pillar captures climate-related financial flows beyond core operations, including carbon credits, climate-related sponsorship, and investments with secondary climate impacts
Research in sustainable finance
In parallel to the technical platform, the partnership supports a substantive academic research program leveraging CC-EE outputs. Large-scale analysis of corporate climate disclosures will generate new insights into which transition strategies most effectively drive real-world corporate change, and will inform evidence-based investor engagement and capital allocation for decarbonization. The research outputs will contribute to the broader academic literature on corporate climate governance and the effectiveness of climate-related financial regulation.
Open access and impact
Full transparency is a design principle of the CC-EE. All outputs will be open-access and reproducible. Companies will be able to consult the evidence compiled about them, challenge assessments, and submit complementary information. The platform is intended to serve as a shared public infrastructure for sustainable finance — transforming what is currently a labor-intensive and fragmented manual process into a scalable, auditable, and institutionally credible resource.