MSCI Sustainability Institute

There’s growing evidence that social risks can significantly impact financial results, Neil Acres, MSCI’s global head of government and regulatory affairs, highlighted during a briefing on #sustainability risks in the financial sector at #Eurofi’s High-Level Seminar in Warsaw.  📊 Dive into the research Neil referenced: https://lnkd.in/exDqsm2G  🌍 Are you a policy or regulatory professional? Check out our Institute’s new Policy Hub — a dedicated resource offering targeted insights to support development of sustainable finance frameworks informed by investment practice. Register your interest here:  https://lnkd.in/ePtnUHdd 

🌍 Our team will be attending #Eurofi’s High-Level Seminar in Warsaw this week. If you’re here, reach out to set up a meeting. And register for our Policy Hub — a dedicated resource offering targeted insights to support development of sustainable finance frameworks informed by investment practice. Learn more and register your interest: https://lnkd.in/ePtnUHdd  🔍 Our Policy Hub brings together data and insights covering:  🔹 Trends in corporate disclosure of emissions and climate-related financial information across sectors  🔹 Fund flows and developments in sustainable finance  🔹 Advancements in green finance and taxonomy alignment  🔹 The role of private markets and alternative investments in driving the energy transition  🔹 Financial materiality and sustainability in regulatory frameworks  🔹 Carbon trading and its role in decarbonization   🔹 How investors are assessing nature-related risks and addressing biodiversity loss     

🌍 Thanks to Ioanna Boulouta, PhD and the Birkbeck Faculty of Business and Law for hosting the Institute’s Daniel Cremin, along with our colleagues Gabriela de la Serna and Lola Callies, for a discussion of data and strategies shaping #sustainableinvesting and the value for both academics and practitioners of bridging theory and practice. 📊 ⭐ We explored: 🔹Motivations for sustainable investing and varied approaches. 🔹How participants across financial markets are leveraging geospatial asset intelligence to assess physical risks like extreme weather and #biodiversity loss. 🔹The role of market mechanisms such as carbon trading in driving down the cost of decarbonization while helping to close the biodiversity funding gap.

🏞️ Ahead of #ForestDay, we’re spotlighting the significance for investors of identifying #deforestation-related risks and the critical role #nature-based finance in preventing deforestation, protecting #nature and #biodiversity, and limiting the impacts of #climatechange. Consider that: 🔹 12% of publicly traded companies worldwide could be contributing directly or indirectly to deforestation (MSCI Research, as of Dec. 31, 2024). 🔹 Nature-based carbon credit projects now protect over 60 million hectares of tropical forests — an area bigger than the size of France (MSCI Carbon Markets, Nov. 2024). 🔹 20 million hectares of forest globally are being restored via carbon credit projects — 66% of these projects have a medium to high potential for positive biodiversity impacts (MSCI Carbon Markets, Oct. 2024). 🌿Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eWip2VHT #InternationalDayofForests

Are you making the most of climate scenario analysis? 🌍📊 Investors have more tools than ever to map climate risk. But to get the most meaningful insights, we need to use them together. In this clip from our recent webinar, MSCI's James Edwards breaks down four main scenario types, and explains how using the full spectrum may help build resilience for an uncertain future. 🔹 Narrative scenarios → Flexible, low-cost, but qualitative 🔹 Quantified scenarios → Add numbers but remain subjective 🔹 Model-driven scenarios → Data-rich but assumption-heavy 🔹 Probabilistic scenarios → Capture uncertainty but require advanced modelling Want to dive into the big takeaways? Check out our five key insights: https://lnkd.in/guxQWHsh

Copper is a cornerstone of the clean-energy transition—but how can we use AI to find more of it? Master's research from former MSCI Sustainability Institute intern Lauren Yeung is helping to answer that question.   Lauren's research harnesses AI to map Greenland’s untapped copper resources, offering a data-driven approach to help pinpoint new deposits, guide investment, and inform resource strategy amid growing global demand for critical minerals.   📍 Check out the research summary and explore how AI could shape the future of mineral exploration! https://lnkd.in/eGTqTa8n #CleanEnergy #AI #Greenland

🌱Ahead of this year's #InternationalWomensDay, we’re thrilled to announce a new series of interviews with the extraordinary leaders named by Fin-Erth to its latest annual list of women who are driving the transition to a clean energy economy. You'll hear about their vision for a greener, more resilient future and the bold solutions they're implementing to tackle the biggest challenges. Stay tuned as we spotlight their leadership in the coming weeks! 🌍💡Annicent Busingye Gelem Del Mar Jin H. Page Crahan Li Tan Ayesha Iqbal Kathryn Huff Purnima Gandhi Ana Hajduka Shields #IWD2025 #FinErthAwards #Sustainability #EnergyTransition #WomenInEnergy

How are the world’s biggest investors thinking about the economic impacts of severe weather events, the pace of the energy transition, and other climate-related risks? 🌍 These 10 charts from our recent survey will show you: http://ms.spr.ly/6049UAXdL

💡"The challenge now lies not in whether to account for environmental impact, but in how to do so most effectively," observes EcoMap in a look at factors driving a shift in accounting for corporate costs and benefits. #sustainability

🌍As #climate policy, technology, and science rapidly evolve, investors have more practical tools to integrate these changes into their decision-making. This was a key theme in a conversation we hosted on climate scenario analysis, where our experts Linda-Eling Lee David Carlin Claudio Baccianti James Edwards Russ B. explored how markets are assessing our climate future and the scenarios shaping investor strategies. ➡️Discover the biggest takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/ecHyzZcv