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Is HMC producing something more that the Harvard Board is not yet ready to share with the public? Or is the lack of data indicative of the approach HMC continues to dedicate substantial resources toward implementing Harvard’s net-zero goal. [...] The value of these investments will change over time due to these capital contributions, changing commodity prices, and the performance of the energy sector relative Commented [DK7]: HMC may have less information than needed to benchmark carbon to other assets in the endowment. [...] For example, HMC believes that the intellectually rigorous way to account for the emissions attributable to short sales is to net the emissions of short positions against those of long positions. [...] While we generally plan to follow the Commented [DK39]: Since the report says that an acceptable method to measure TCFD framework for calculating the portfolio emissions of HMC’s portfolio, for the reasons discussed in CO2e in their portfolio is still far off, shouldn't they have metrics that may be less perfect the first part of this report, we are approaching the process carefully and expect to. [...] The Climate Report in 2023 should expressly list what HMC is a signatory to, supporter of, or member of the following organizations: reporting is required for each of these partnerships, what components of those reports HMC and Harvard are willing to release publicly, and the reasons it is unwilling to release the other parts.