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Conversations from COP30: Harnessing data to transform transition finance

The use of data-driven analytics can speed the ability of countries to implement their climate targets and transform energy-transition finance.

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What if the Paris Agreement hadn’t happened?

Imagine a world without the Paris Agreement. December marked a decade since nearly 200 countries adopted the 27-page accord while meeting at the United Nations climate change conference in the French capital.

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Mapping the hidden wealth of Brazil’s forests

Forests in Brazil can be significantly more valuable standing than when cleared for timber or agriculture, our modeling suggests.

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Five lenses on sustainable finance in Southeast Asia and China’s Greater Bay Area

The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as a strategic growth market for climate finance and clean technology, with China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) and Southeast Asia (SEA) leading the way.

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Events

We convene global experts, practitioners and decision-makers to examine systemic challenges and the role of capital markets in tackling them.

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Theory Meet Practice

Our video series featuring leading finance academics discussing their research and the lessons investors can take from it.

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Scholars Program

Immersive learning for master’s students through opportunities to conduct research under the supervision of MSCI analysts.

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Policy Hub

Targeted insights and essential knowledge to support the development of frameworks informed by investment practice.

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Ongoing research & analysis

Transition Finance Tracker

Our quarterly report tracks companies’ and investors’ progress toward a cleaner, more resilient global economy. The chart-forward report captures key financial flows, physical risk, emissions, targets and disclosure using data from MSCI and others.

What the market thinks

Our series examining how participants across the capital-markets ecosystem are navigating systemic challenges. Combining market perspectives and data, the reports help practitioners, academic researchers and policymakers sharpen decision-making and benchmark progress.

Sustainability Research Portal

Our roundup of research into the relationship between sustainability factors and the value of financial assets, risk and performance that has practical investment relevance.

Institute in the news

For better or worse, COP30 changed little for investors

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Asian utility companies to face climate-driven losses of US$8.4 billion by 2050: report

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MSCI’s Transition Finance Tracker highlights need for forward-looking data

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