The MSCI Sustainability Institute is on a mission to drive progress by capital markets to create sustainable value and tackle global challenges such as climate change. Our mission mirrors our belief that addressing the biggest global challenges demands that leaders across capital markets, academia, business, government and civil society work in concert. Our goal is to align data, analysis, policy and action. We do this by leveraging MSCI’s experience and expertise in the investment industry to spur collaboration among investors, academics, companies, policymakers, think tanks and NGOs.
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What #climate future do you anticipate and how do your expectations compare with those across capital markets? 🌍 Join us on January 29th for a webinar where we’ll explore market-aligned climate scenarios and how they can be effectively translated into practice. Register now: https://lnkd.in/dN-dh-KH
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🎉2024 was a big year for our Institute! We brought together thought leaders across finance, academia and policy to engage with data and analysis that bridge theory and practice. Haven’t caught up yet? Now’s the perfect time to check out these insights, which can inform your strategy in 2025 and beyond: https://lnkd.in/dq9wXWRu Huge thanks to our fellows, advisors and collaborators. Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season and an impactful New Year!
🌏 There’s consensus among market participants “that physical risk is something we're going to have to address,” Linda-Eling Lee, the Institute’s founding director, tells Mandi McReynolds in a conversation that focuses on the pivotal role of private finance in driving climate action. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eywREniW Highlights include: ✅ Transition finance: Investors are funding brown companies to help them transition, focusing on where emissions are. ✅ Carbon markets: Agreements reached at #COP29 signal progress in operationalizing carbon trading between countries and a new carbon market under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement. ✅ Forward-looking data: Investors demand insights on companies' climate trajectories and transition plans. Nearly two-thirds (62%) of companies remain off track. 📊 ✅ Adaptation and resilience: AI is powering modeling and helping to identify opportunities.
In this week’s episode of #ESGTalk, host Mandi McReynolds broadcasts from Baku at #COP29 with Linda-Eling Lee, head of the Sustainability Institute at MSCI Inc. Together, they unpack how the dynamics of finance will shift over the next two years at every level, and how business leaders should monitor these changes. Tune in to discover how businesses are stepping up to address global climate challenges. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eEn6QYFd #COP29 #Sustainability #ClimateAction
From all of us at MSCI, we wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year! Let’s take a moment to celebrate the biggest moments we shared together in 2024. http://ms.spr.ly/6046oXUFE
Congratulations to Emmy Shaw and Canbury for winning the IMPACT Award from Environmental Finance for your work analyzing degradation in Canada’s boreal forest. 🎉 A special shoutout to Institute fellow Sam Block for his contributions to this important analysis. 🌲 We encourage everyone to read the report and explore its call to action for investors: https://lnkd.in/ecJ6vhhc
We couldn't be prouder to share that Canbury's research on The Degradation of Canada's Boreal has won the Environmental Finance 2024 award for Impact Research. A big thank you to all those that contributed to our research, in particular, Linda-Eling Lee, Shelley Vinyard, Greta Fearman, Adam Kanzer and Tim Steinweg. Indigenous Leadership Initiative, MSCI Sustainability Institute, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Cardano, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Principles for Responsible Investment, Addenda Capital, SHARE—Shareholder Association for Research and Education, EOS at Federated Hermes Limited, and Domini Impact Investments LLC. And of course, principal author, Canbury's Emmy Shaw. Link to the award here: https://lnkd.in/eHVUyGBK Link to the report here: https://lnkd.in/en2ijShN #award, #impact, #boreal, #degradation, #deforestation
In our new practical guide, we help financial practitioners make sense of #climate scenarios by classifying them into four types, based on key characteristics. “By organizing these scenarios based on their complexity and offering a roadmap for integrating them into investment decision-making, the paper can help stakeholders make informed choices,” notes David Carlin, former head of risk at the UNEP FI, in a foreword to the paper. Read the full paper: https://lnkd.in/gpW5ubbZ
👏Congratulations to Institute fellows Manish Shakdwipee, PhD and Elchin Mammadov and our colleague Guido Giese on publication in the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing of their analysis of a managed phaseout of coal-fired power in the APAC region. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ev6dHx9w The analysis details how an orderly phaseout of coal-fired power plants in APAC could slash nearly three-quarters of the region’s combined coal power generation-related carbon emissions and minimize economic disruption from the energy transition. Its publication in the journal arrives two weeks after #COP29, where 25 countries and the European Union announced their intention to put forward national climate plans that reflect no new unabated coal in their energy systems. The announcement was joined by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), which called for the early winding down of coal plants as part of overall efforts by countries in APAC to reduce their emissions. The paper, which brings forward an analysis developed by the Institute at the request of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)'s Asia-Pacific Network, draws on examples from Drax Group PLC (UK), Vattenfall AB (Sweden), RWE AG (Germany), Uniper SE (Germany), and Engie SA (France) to illustrate varied outcomes of coal phaseouts
Listed companies are on track for a 2.8°C temperature rise, according to our latest Net-Zero Tracker. Explore the emissions trends that matter and how private capital can help correct the course. Download the latest Net-Zero Tracker now: https://lnkd.in/eVxcNXuJ
🧬💊 This World #AMR Awareness Week, we’re spotlighting the alarming rise in bacterial resistance. Resistance rates have nearly tripled, jumping from 16% in 2001 to 44% in 2020. The cost? An estimated $1 trillion in additional healthcare expenses and a potential 3.8% annual shrink in global economic output by 2050. Our research with the FAIRR Initiative and the Access to Medicine Foundation reveals the urgent need for action—and the role investors can play in combating AMR. Read more https://lnkd.in/g4MgN8wc
What might make private capital flow more freely toward the climate transition in developing countries? This was a key question we asked during #COP29. Innovations in financing, more transparency, and an expanded role for carbon markets all point toward a more inclusive, scalable approach, according to global investors, development finance experts, policymakers and civil-society leaders whom we convened in Baku last week. See the top takeaways from our forum here: https://lnkd.in/gdMnVuv8