ITR-tool

WWF version of the SBTi-Finance-tool, based on the WWF/CDP Temperature rating methodology

Visit https://wwf-sweden.github.io/ITR-tool/ for the full documentation

If you have any additional questions or comments send a mail to: ekonomi-finans@wwf.se

About the tool

This package helps companies and financial institutions to assess the temperature alignment of current targets, commitments, and investment and lending portfolios, and to use this information to develop targets for official validation by the SBTi.

The WWF Finance toolkit can be used in different ways:

• Users can integrate the Python package in their codebase
• Using Notebooks, either locally or on Google Colab

Structure

The folder structure for this project is as follows:

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├── .github                 # Github specific files (Github Actions workflows)
├── app                     # FastAPI app files for the API endpoints
├── docs                    # Documentation files (Sphinx)
├── config                  # Config files for the Docker container
├── ITR                     # The main Python package for the temperature alignment tool
└── test                    # Automated unit tests for the SBTi package (Nose2 tests)

Installation

The SBTi package may be installed using PIP. If you'd like to install it locally use the following command. For testing or production please see the deployment section for further instructions

pip install -e .

For installing the latest stable release in PyPi run:

pip install sbti-finance-tool

Development

To set up the local dev environment with all dependencies, install poetry and run

poetry install

This will create a virtual environment inside the project folder under .venv.

Testing

Each class should be unit tested. The unit tests are written using the Nose2 framework. The setup.py script should have already installed Nose2, so now you may run the tests as follows:

nose2 -v

Publish to PyPi

The package should be published to PyPi when any changes to main are merged.

Update package

1. bump version in pyproject.toml based on semantic versioning principles
2. run poetry build
3. run poetry publish
4. check whether package has been successfully uploaded

Initial Setup

• Create account on PyPi