MSCI Sustainability Institute

Here are five things we’d recommend checking out this month that are sharpening our thinking about #sustainablefinance. What have you been reading? https://lnkd.in/e-pJqHEb

🌍 #Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat last year. What climate future do you foresee, and how do your expectations align with those across capital markets? Join us on January 29 for a webinar to explore market-aligned climate scenarios and how they can be translated into practice. Register now: https://lnkd.in/ec-FS3Z5

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

🎉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.

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

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