Circular Economy Indexes

MSCI’s Circular Economy Indexes are built to help you identify companies that derive revenue from our transition to an economy designed to minimize waste, circulate resources and regenerate nature. They seek to not only include companies building alternative technologies but those working to reduce their own negative impacts as well.

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Circular Economy Indexes

The “take, make, use and dispose” model of value creation for production and consumption is incompatible with today’s resource-constrained world. A circular economy, however, seeks to address global resource challenges such as energy scarcity, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution.

Our indexes are based on the “R” principles of a circular economy: refuse, rethink, reduce, re-use, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle and recover.¹

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Index	Index code	Last	Day	MTD	3M	YTD	1 YR	3 YR	5 YR	10 YR
MSCI ACWI IMI RENEWABLES AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY INDEX	746884	4078.96	-4.10%	-7.93%	-3.13%	10.34%	6.51%	20.56%	4.60%	--
MSCI ACWI IMI SHARING ECONOMY INDEX	746885	5836.72	-4.95%	-9.04%	1.34%	16.67%	9.39%	31.60%	11.63%	--
MSCI ACWI IMI Plastics Transition Index	747122	1901.88	1.36%	7.97%	-0.59%	10.82%	16.60%	10.88%	3.43%	--
MSCI ACWI IMI SUSTAINABLE WATER TRANSITION INDEX	747270	3202.88	-0.53%	1.68%	-0.35%	17.72%	18.20%	20.62%	8.77%	--
MSCI ACWI IMI NATURAL RESOURCES STEWARDSHIP INDEX	747286	2234.09	0.18%	2.05%	1.82%	9.26%	13.72%	11.00%	4.34%	--
MSCI ACWI IMI Sustainable Water Transition Extended Capped	747943	3809.76	-1.21%	-1.29%	-2.16%	26.19%	27.85%	26.58%	11.46%	--

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Transitioning to a Circular Economy

Learn about the companies, technologies and other forces driving our transition away from a linear model.

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Rethinking Material Use: The Circular Economy 101

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1 Adapted from Circular Economy: Measuring Innovation in the Product Chain by Potting, et. al (2017)

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