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December 17, 2024

Why ‘net-zero’ and ‘Paris alignment’ are not the same when it comes to corporate climate targets

Business as usual won’t cut it when it comes to corporate climate action.

December 16, 2024

Our Institute’s impact in 2024

2024 was a big year for the MSCI Sustainability Institute. We continued to bridge the gap between theory, practice and policy through data and analysis that help decision-makers in finance, academia, business and government drive sustainable value.

December 11, 2024

How can I use climate scenarios?
A practical guide

Climate change is reshaping the financial landscape, compelling capital-markets participants to integrate into their decision making potential future developments in the energy transition, severe weather events, and other climate-related risks and opportunities across sectors and markets.

December 2, 2024

Institute analysis of phasing out coal power in APAC published in the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing

An orderly phaseout of coal-fired power plants in the Asia-Pacific region could slash nearly three-quarters of the region’s combined coal power generation-related carbon emissions and minimize economic disruption from the energy transition.

November 13, 2024

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?

November 10, 2024

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.

October 31, 2024

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.

October 8, 2024

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.

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August 27, 2024

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.

May 1, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

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.

March 14, 2024

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?

March 14, 2024

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

March 4, 2024

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.

March 4, 2024

Generating lift for low-carbon aviation

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

February 29, 2024

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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