tilt under the CB-PASTAX grant

The CB-PASTAX project (LIFE20 GIC/DE/001765) was co-funded by the European Union - the starting point of tilt. This page summarises all our achievements over the time of the CB-PASTAX grant. For more information, including an extensive project description, click here. If you have questions regarding certain points or want to get in contact visit: www.tiltsmes.org/contact.

Online Platform

The tilt platform contains multiple resources. After registration, users can see:

  • A web tool to explore our data (incl., 3 climate indicators for 200,000 firms)

  • The possibility to request our data for research purposes

  • A climate action guide that can serve for climate improvement loans

  • A method document

  • Online webinars that present our tool

  • A feedback form to enhance tilt further

  • You can find an anonymised version of the data ready to be downloaded on Zenodo.

Open-source Code

The code we developed is open-source. The code gathers raw firm data, maps them to different climate data sources, and generates the output data, incl. the three indicators - the relative emission, the sector decarbonisation, and the transition risk indicator.

Additionally, you can learn more about:

Reports

Stakeholder Involvement

We want to thank every institution and individual that supported us for putting personal resources into the tilt development. We want to highlight the following supporters:

  • 6 banks road tested our data directly and provided feedback. Further, the data were applied in a research project with a supervisory authority to >150 bank portfolios.

  • 6 roundtables and technical webinars with the community of practice were conducted, with participants from 14 additional European banks, and 13 official advisors from NGOs, universities and policymaker

  • > 50 online and on-site meetings with banks, NGOs, universities

All input that we received is summarised in the feedback note.

Selected user-group banks

Strategic Partnerships and Funders

Deloitte supports (see press release here) tilt to accelerate a robust IT infrastructure, review the data and  methodology and support by way of their extensive experience in working with banks. The partnership has allowed tilt to double its resources in terms of scaling the deployment, quality, and coverage of the dataset.

We were part of the polycrisis batch 3 from the impact incubator programme PHINEO start-ups. PHINEO supports impact startups in tackling the world’s most pressing crises through their incubator and accelerator program PHINEO Startups. Together we worked on a business plan for tilt to sustain the CB-PASTAX work beyond the LIFE project.

Our work was funded by the following institutions:

Selected Events and Awards

Awards

  • In October 2023, tilt was referenced as an emerging data source in the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership's Bank Action Guide, a comprehensive blueprint for banks to include SMEs in the net-zero transition.

tilt at events

NLP4SF in Oxford (11th of July, 2023)

Campus AI in Berlin (26th of January, 2023)

Data Native Conference (31st of August, 2022)

Anne Schönauer

Project Lead and Co-Founder

Anne led the tilt project with a special focus on developing the methodology, responsible for the business development and strategy of tilt, incl. fundraising, as well as of tilt's partnerships (such as with Deloitte Netherlands or Phineo), the personal development of the team and managing the research grants and funders.

Tilman Trompke

Project Manager and Co-Founder

As project manager at tilt, Tilman was heavily involved in methodological development of tilt and responsible for project planning including managing the tasks of the tech team (weekly sprints) and partially grant managing.

Mauro Lepore

Senior Software Developer

Mauro led the software development of tilt, building the application from end to end, including: gathering and wrangling critical data, building the back-end - an ecosystem of R packages and building the front-end - an interactive (R shiny) website running on a cloud.

Yahsmin Malik

Stakeholder Manager

Yamshin led extensive outreach efforts to European banks to promote tilt and SME climate assessment, successfully forming the user and community of practice groups. I was instrumental in securing bank participation for road tests, and I organized and convened roundtables and technical webinars to foster engagement and collaboration among stakeholders.

Kalash Singhal

Data Scientist

Kalash was responsible for the software development of indicators in sustainable finance domain using R and Python. Moreover, I am heavily involved with deployment, testing, development of data pipelines, GPT prompt engineering, and NLP application for matching tasks.

Linda Delacombaz

Junior Software Developer

As a junior software developer, Linda supported data analysis efforts, focusing on creating plots for tilt. I also contributed to the development of R packages and assisted with back-end development of the software, ensuring smooth functionality and performance.

Mirja Hollmann

Lead Data Scientist

Mirja was involved in the early development of the tilt tool and worked on the data collection and generation process, data processing, cleaning and analysis, and the development of our matching algorithm.

Hanish Bathia

Analyst

Hanish was involved in the early development of the tilt tool and worked on the conceptualization, identification of databases, indicator development along with project management.

Franziska Fischer

Analyst

Franziska was responsible for the Climate Action Guide of the tilt project. Part of this task of this research was extensive climate action points of SMEs along their Life Cycle their products