How companies leverage our data and analytics
With growing pressure to enhance sustainability and reduce carbon footprints, over 3,000 companies rely on us for sustainability indexes, data and analytics.1
MSCI empowers companies with data-driven insights that help them gain insight into their ESG Ratings, address sustainability and climate risks, and manage evolving regulations and investor expectations.2
Compare your sustainability and climate performance against industry peers to track progress toward company goals.
Measure carbon intensity, map your climate trajectory, and identify material risks to align with regulatory demands and company targets.
Make the case for sustainability-linked financing, promote bond offerings and prepare for IPOs and other liquidity events.
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Track your sustainability strategy against peers
MSCI Corporate Sustainability Insights enables companies to measure and compare their sustainability and climate data versus peers – and deepen their understanding by engaging directly with MSCI's ESG Research team.
Apply carbon market insights
MSCI Carbon Markets provides companies with actionable insights to help achieve emissions ambitions.
Gain insight with provisional ratings
Non-rated companies that seek to establish credibility and attract investors may obtain a Provisional ESG Rating.
Leverage sustainability-linked financing
Using MSCI ESG Ratings to help assess capital costs.
Enhance your credibility
Our Second-Party Opinions are designed to add credibility to your sustainable debt financing framework.
MSCI ESG Ratings and the cost of capital
The evidence shows a significant historical correlation between a company’s MSCI ESG Rating and its financing costs in both equity and debt markets, over nearly nine years ended May 2024.
Data period from August 2015 through May 2024. We divided the entire study sample (n = 4,319 unique issuers) into quintiles each month based on IAS score, which underlies the MSCI ESG Rating, and compared each quintile's cost of capital monthly (106 observations). The difference between the top and bottom ESG quintiles over the study period was significant at a 99% confidence level using the Mann-Whitney U test. Source: MSCI ESG Research
Advisors: Empower your clients with insights and experience
We work with investment banks, accountants, management consultants, law firms and others who advise companies on making sustainability part of their long-term business strategy.
Provide quality advice for your clients
Understand the challenges and opportunities clients face using robust sustainability and climate data, benchmarking tools and reporting insights.
Guide strategic decisions
Help companies develop climate and sustainability strategies with MSCI’s more than 50 years of experience and solutions.
Create sustainability-linked financing strategies
Guide clients to strengthen the value of their offerings for debt and equity investors.
Research and resources
Driving corporate sustainability goals
See how MSCI leveraged our climate change data and analytics to map our own pathway to net-zero carbon emissions.
MSCI ESG Ratings and the Cost of Capital
Do companies with higher resilience to financially material sustainability-related risks (as measured by MSCI ESG Ratings) benefit from a lower cost of capital?
Why sustainability data is financially relevant
Driving stronger outcomes with actionable insights from MSCI.
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Resources for issuers
Get information on your ESG Ratings report and data through our Issuer Communications Portal.
Learn more about ESG Ratings
Measure a company's resilience to financially relevant sustainability risks.
1 Source: MSCI Inc. as of December 2022.
2 MSCI ESG and climate ratings, research and data are produced by MSCI ESG Research LLC, a subsidiary of MSCI Inc. MSCI ESG Indexes, Analytics and Real Estate are products of MSCI Inc. that utilize information from MSCI ESG Research LLC. MSCI Indexes are administered by MSCI Limited (UK) and MSCI Deutschland GmbH.