Climate solutions for capital markets
Climate change is not just a risk for the future but also an opportunity to create value now. Our integrated data, analytics, indexes and research-led insights help leading investors, financial institutions, insurers, corporates and advisors build climate-aware strategies and find their competitive edge.
Simplify the process of establishing, monitoring and reporting financed emissions across your entire portfolio with broad asset class coverage and deep insights into both public and private markets.
Take control of emissions disclosure and reporting of climate-related financial information for both mandatory and voluntary frameworks with solutions designed to help you align with evolving requirements.
Track progress with integrated solutions for analytics, risk management and reporting, powered by data and an intuitive set of climate metrics aligned with global frameworks.
Monitor climate-related financial risks and investment resilience across strategies and asset classes, and physical hazards by location, using detailed insights under various risk scenarios and geospatial asset intelligence to visualize exposures and drivers enterprise-wide.
Identify clean-energy opportunities in every sector of the economy with tools designed to help you maximize insights into innovation investments.
Construct climate-resilient portfolios, mitigate climate risks, capture opportunities or align your strategies and index-linked products with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The MSCI Difference
Tap into a climate finance team with decades of experience and a record of success developing industry-leading methodologies to measure the risk and impact of sustainability across asset classes.
Examine decarbonization drivers, quantify risk and sharpen strategy, from portfolio analytics and construction to risk management and reporting, with climate solutions designed for integration.
Get a complete picture of climate and nature exposures, including within listed and unlisted equities and fixed income, commercial real estate and infrastructure.
See trajectories for climate and nature risk, opportunity and impact, including carbon footprinting, transition and physical risk, low-carbon opportunities, carbon markets, nature and biodiversity.
Get climate data and metrics aligned with global frameworks and disclosure rules, Use our ready-to-share reports to inform clients, shareholders and stakeholders while addressing regulatory demands.
Work with a critical connector
We have 50+ years of experience compiling sustainability data.
86%
Of the world’s 50 largest asset managers use our climate data1
2250+
Climate change metrics covering nearly 20,000 issuers2
No. 1
Climate index provider by equity ETF assets linked to indexes3
1 million+
Asset locations covered by our GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence that can be expanded upon request4
Climate tools for capital markets
Climate Data and Metrics
Identify climate-transition leaders and laggards using data and metrics for assessing transition risks and opportunities across operations and supply chains.
Total Portfolio Footprinting
Measure, monitor and report your portfolio’s complete carbon footprint. Compare financed emissions across public and private asset classes. Measure, monitor and report your portfolio’s complete carbon footprint. Compare financed emissions across public and private asset classes.
Carbon Markets
Access investor-grade carbon markets data and analytics with proprietary data and advanced modeling for companies, investors, banks, project developers and others.
GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence
Deepen insight into physical risk and nature-related exposure at more than one million corporate and real-estate sites in your portfolio or loan book.
Regional Physical Hazard Metrics
Measure exposure to the effects of severe weather, excessive heat, and other climate-related physical risks that can lead to declines in asset values.
Nature and Biodiversity
Get the highest-quality, location-based data and TNFD-aligned metrics to help you assess and manage nature- and biodiversity-related risk.
Climate Scenario Analysis
Quantify financial climate risks based on NGFS and IPCC scenarios with insights designed to help you manage portfolios, optimize performance and align with regulations.
See our solutions in action
How the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund is leading the way to net-zero
Learn how this asset-owner investor uses data, indexes and analytical tools from MSCI to put the risks of a changing climate at the center of its investment strategy.
The UN Joint Staff Pension Fund’s chief discusses its climate progress
Pedro Guazo, representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, speaks with MSCI Chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez about the fund’s progress in addressing the risks and opportunities of the low-carbon transition.
Driving our own corporate sustainability goals
How we used our own climate tools at MSCI to chart our pathway to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
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Financing the Climate Transition
How investors are addressing the potential trade-offs between achieving their climate and financial goals.
Carbon Footprinting Demystified
Calculating the carbon footprints of assets ranging from equities and debt to commercial real estate, securitized products and cash.
Carbon Footprinting for Banks
How banks use our climate and nature solutions to measure the emissions linked to their investment and lending activities.
Why sustainability data is financially relevant
Driving stronger outcomes with actionable insights from MSCI.
The MSCI Sustainability Institute
Advancing knowledge, research and discovery to solve global sustainability challenges.
1 MSCI ESG Research’s climate solutions are used by 43 of the top 50 world’s largest asset managers as determined by the report “The world’s largest 500 asset managers” — a Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments joint study. AUM and rankings calculated as of December 2023. Report published October 2024. MSCI clients as of September 2024."
2 MSCI ESG Research, as of September 2023.
3 As of Jan. 1, 2024.
4 Source: MSCI ESG Research, data as of June 27, 2024.