Preqin ESG Solutions 43 4. For each private company a. Obtain employee count b. To get the company’s emissions estimate, multiply the employee count by: i. The geographic adjustment factor calculated in 4 based on the country that the company’s headquarters are located in. ii. The median emissions per employee per industry as computed in 3c based on the industry the company operates in. What do our emissions estimates mean? 1,000 mT Scope 1 CO2e means that Preqin estimates the asset emitted an equivalent of 1,000 metric tons of CO2 last year. This proxy is calculated based on the number of its employees, its industry, and the country in which its headquarters are located, using public market data and country-level carbon e昀케ciency estimates. ↗ Back to Contents