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.
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Indexes include the top companies in each sector as indicated by transition readiness.
Indexes tilt toward companies with science-based climate targets¹ and those successfully navigating the energy transition.
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.