Climate Action Indexes

MSCI Climate Action Indexes are designed to help institutional investors seeking to finance decarbonization by investing in companies prepared to drive their sector’s low-carbon transition. The indexes include companies in every sector taking concrete steps to reduce their carbon emissions and reimagine their businesses for a net-zero world.

Target benefits
Discover tools to take climate action

Allocate essential capital

Identify companies in each sector prepared to drive their sector’s low-carbon transition.

Maintain consistent framework

Align with MSCI ACWI IMI while targeting companies based on climate characteristics.

Access climate engagement tools

Discover companies that are candidates for dialogue intended to spur action.

Looking to drive change in the real economy?

Learn how our indexes leverage sector-level insights to help you meet net-zero goals.

Opportunity set

Indexes include the top companies in each sector as indicated by transition readiness.

Sector leadership

Indexes tilt toward companies with science-based climate targets¹ and those successfully navigating the energy transition.

Sector-specific insight

Indexes aim for balanced sector weights, a forward-looking view and bottom-up approach.

Helping you finance decarbonization

We select² the top 50% of companies in each Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®)³ sector based on a four-part assessment of their readiness:

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¹ Company-level emissions reduction targets which have been approved by Science Based Targets initiative

² The MSCI Climate Action Indexes select 50% of companies by count, not by market cap.

³ GICS® is the global industry classification standard jointly developed by MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence.