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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.

September 30, 2024

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.

September 25, 2024

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?

September 18, 2024

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.

September 10, 2024

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.

August 29, 2024

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

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) fueled by indiscriminate use of antibiotics represents among the greatest threats to global public health. How can investors address the risks and opportunities that AMR presents?

August 27, 2024

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

The French asset manager Comgest has selected the Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) to inform development of its climate targets.

August 1, 2024

What’s on your summer reading list?

Here are eight don’t-miss pieces that range from the frontiers of sustainable finance and transformative thinking to climate progress in Asia and more. Enjoy them wherever your downtime may take you.

July 31, 2024

Transition-finance indicators show companies’ misalignment with climate goals

There are multiple ways to measure companies’ alignment with global climate goals. No matter how you look at it though, the world’s listed companies remain largely off track.

June 6, 2024

Reality Checking Sustainable Finance: Top takeaways from our live event

Leaders from finance, academia and business untangled the latest data on sustainability and performance, explored divergence in ESG ratings, examined the role of diversity in creating value, and addressed misconceptions that have set sustainable investing up for self-reflection.

May 8, 2024

Bringing derivatives to climate reporting: Top takeaways from the Institute’s roundtable

Despite their central role in portfolio and risk management, accounting for the carbon footprint of derivatives has proved to be a challenge for investors and other capital-markets participants.

March 7, 2024

Whither went Scope 3?

Scope 3 emissions aside, investors stand to have much more information about financially relevant climate risks thanks to the SEC’s ruling.

February 20, 2024

Men on boards

Our analysis shows that on their current trajectory, women are projected to hold 30% of board seats in 2026 and reach 50% by 2040

February 1, 2024

Is ‘rational sustainability’ the new ESG?

Could jettisoning the acronym 'ESG' in favor of a different term hold the potential to get back to basics on the practice of creating long-term value

January 24, 2024

Supporting a new generation of climate-finance scholars

Aligning the trillions of dollars of capital that the transition to a clean-energy economy will demand is generating a youth movement in the field of sustainable finance.

January 11, 2024

All finance is sustainable finance

Sustainability needs to be a core part of the MBA curriculum if business education is to keep pace with a changing world

November 22, 2023

Is 1.6°C the new 1.5°C?

The MSCI Sustainability Institute and its collaborators are pursuing initiatives to drive the immediacy of climate action across capital markets

November 22, 2023

Can climate resilience be an attractive investment?

The world is getting hotter, but investor focus on eliminating carbon emissions has not been matched by attention to investments in improving our resilience to the physical risks of climate change.

November 22, 2023

When does sustainability drive value?

The Institute seeks to highlight the most practitioner-relevant academic research into how sustainability factors impact the value of financial assets

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