Sustainability-Linked FinancingUsing MSCI ESG Ratings to help assess capital costs.
Transparent data for financing
Data on 4,000 issuers, taken from August 2015 to May 2024, found that companies with better MSCI ESG Ratings tended to have lower capital costs.1 We believe our ratings can serve as a critical assessment tool for companies and banks who seek a rules-based methodology based on thousands of data points for each company.
Discover how company ratings stack up relative to the field and gauge the ambition level of performance targets. Identify leaders and laggards in an industry.
Banks and stakeholders can manage protection from deteriorating sustainability performance. Support debt issuance and build confidence with our objective analysis.
Leverage your ratings as a key performance indicator for sustainability-linked financing, as required by the Sustainability-Linked Loans Principles.2
Our sustainability leadership
Private and public companies around the world turn to us for market-leading sustainability and climate tools and solutions.
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Sustainability clients globally3
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Issuers covered4
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Securities covered5
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Second-Party Opinions
Our Second-Party Opinions are designed to add transparency to your sustainable debt financing framework.
1 From August 2015 to May 2024, per: MSCI ESG Ratings and Cost of Capital
2 Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) - LSTA
3 As of June 30, 2024, client count is based on the shipping address of the ultimate customer using the product. Affiliates, user locations or business units within a single organization are considered as separate clients. MSCI ESG and climate ratings, research and data are produced by MSCI ESG Research LLC, a subsidiary of MSCI Inc. MSCI ESG Indexes, Analytics, Real Assets, and Private Capital Solutions are products of MSCI Inc. that utilize information from MSCI ESG Research LLC. MSCI Indexes are administered by MSCI Limited and MSCI Deutschland GmbH.
4 As of Dec. 2023.
5 Ibid.