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  • Unlocking the Capital Spectrum

    Decarbonization finance for developing economies

    Exclusive invite-only roundtable hosted by the MSCI Sustainability Institute and the UNFCCC.

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Comment

Investors envision a 2.8oC future, with escalating risks of severe weather

Theory meet practice

Discussing systems-level thinking with Caroline Flammer

Comment

Canada’s boreal forest and a call to action for investors

Climate Scholars Program

Recognizing the Institute’s inaugural climate scholars

Comment

No one wants a do-over, but the vast majority believes financial institutions will miss their near-term targets: Takeaways from our Climate Week NYC roundtable

News

Our Institute teams with SSRN to launch new Climate Finance eJournal

Sustainability Research Portal

The latest research from leading academics and practitioners

Chart Library

Graphics highlighting the latest sustainability trends

Insights All Insights

No one wants a do-over, but the vast majority believes financial institutions will miss their near-term targets: Takeaways from our Climate Week NYC roundtable

Transition finance needs to reach beyond the boundaries of Europe

How one asset manager uses the NZIF to develop and set climate targets

Tackling AMR through capital markets: Top takeaways from the Institute’s roundtable

Education All Education

Climate Scholars Program

Bringing together some of the best minds in finance and climate science to support research by master’s-level students.

Examining capital-expenditures data from a net-zero perspective.
Gas terminal in ocean
Evaluating the predictive power of Climate VaR on historical returns
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Recognizing the Institute’s inaugural climate scholars
The Institute’s inaugural cohort of climate scholars examined the power of MSCI’s scenario-analysis tool to serve as an indicator of movement in asset prices and the value of artificial intelligence in surfacing company spending as a proxy for climate readiness.

Institute in the news

MSCI investor guide to antimicrobial resistance warns of widespread risk

Environmental Finance

Climate adaptation may be less sexy than mitigation, but the pay-off is real

Financial Times

Why Is Nobody Investing in Climate Adaptation?

Heatmap

How companies meet climate goals needs more than a sniff test

Financial Times

  • An investor’s guide to

    Antimicrobial resistance

    The overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials poses a growing threat to lives and livelihoods in every region while presenting strategic opportunities for risk-minded investors, according to a new guide published by the MSCI Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the FAIRR Initiative and the Access to Medicine Foundation.

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Episode 5: Discussing systems-level thinking with Caroline Flammer
Episode 4: Navigating climate transition risk with Marcin Kacperczyk
Top research questions on sustainable finance
Curating conversations that drive sustainable value
Episode 3: Reading corporate sustainability news with Aaron Yoon
Episode 2: Alex Edmans on thinking rationally about sustainability
Episode 1: MIT’s Roberto Rigobon on making sense of sustainability ratings
Clearing barriers to corporate climate action
Supporting a new generation of climate finance scholars

  • Curbing climate risk

    Net-Zero Tracker

    To understand how the shift to a low-carbon economy is progressing, follow the money. Read our latest periodic report on progress by the world’s listed companies toward curbing climate risk.

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