Loans to public governments

General
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Dear SBTi Community,

I represent a bank which is having a big portion of their portfolio in loans towards regional governments of regions and cities.
Since governments and regions do not have a methodology to set Science Based Targets the “portfolio coverage ratio” of this portfolio is rather low. However, since I currently do not see a methodology for governments developed to set SBTs I am wondering how you would handle such oans. Would you exclude them from your portfolio coverage calculations or would you choose another target setting method?
Yours
Frenky

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Hi Frenky,

Thanks for your question. Loans to governments are indeed out of scope currently so can be excluded from portfolio coverage calculations.

Thanks,
Howard