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Unlocking private capital for climate action in developing countries: Takeaways from our COP29 forum

What will it take to help private capital flow more freely toward climate transition efforts in developing countries?

Net-Zero Tracker: Investors see climate risk rising

Investors are divided over when global emissions of greenhouse gases may start to fall but are united on the financial risks of a warming world.

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

The world’s investors agree that the risks of severe weather events will escalate and that global action to date is insufficient to stave off the costliest warming, according to a study conducted by the MSCI Sustainability Institute designed to capture what market participants think about our climate future.

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

Canada’s boreal forest belongs on the radar of risk-minded investors. That became clear to me after two days last weekend on an investor-focused tour of the region, which forms part of the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth.

Highlights from the Institute’s research exchange with Columbia Business School

Investors want to see a link between challenges that address their biggest problems in sustainable investing and work coming out of the academy.

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

How realistic is it for institutional investors to uphold their climate commitments to finance decarbonization, is misalignment with climate goals equivalent to exposure to transition risk, and would convergence between the hodgepodge of frameworks and approaches accelerate financing the transition to a low-carbon economy?

Ahead of Climate Week NYC: The low-carbon transition by the numbers

Climate Week NYC is coming up! Here is your cheat sheet of go-to stats for the constructive (and provocative) conversations ahead.

Transition finance needs to reach beyond the boundaries of Europe

Capital is a prerequisite for decarbonizing our economy and so is policy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the European Union, where policy and capital are together driving progress.

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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.

Climate change dominates investors’ outlook, Stanford-MSCI Sustainability Institute survey finds

The impacts of a warming world are likely to impact investments in the medium term, say the world's largest owners and managers of assets

These 10 charts show how the world’s biggest investors are integrating sustainability into their decision-making

The world’s biggest institutional investors say unequivocally that climate change is likely to affect the performance of investments over the medium term, a survey by Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the MSCI Sustainability Institute finds.

Unavoidable opportunity: How to make climate adaptation and resilience investable

How might investors identify companies that are developing or delivering products and services designed to help society withstand the impacts of a warming planet?

Methodology: Developing an investible universe of climate adaptation and resilience companies

Identifying products and services that contribute to adaptation and resilience comes with challenges, as evidenced by the gap between investment (and action) to reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and investment in technologies for adaptation

17 years of MSCI ESG Ratings and long-term corporate performance

In the latest update to our long-running research on the relationship between MSCI ESG ratings and corporate performance, we find that top MSCI ESG-rated companies have consistently outperformed their lower-rated peers due chiefly to better earnings fundamentals.

Generating lift for low-carbon aviation

The push to decarbonize matters for an industry that contributes about 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

US firms fall further behind global peers on climate disclosure

U.S.-listed companies lag their peers globally in disclosing their financially relevant climate risks.

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