Climate Paris Aligned Indexes

The MSCI Climate Paris Aligned Indexes are designed to help institutional investors seeking to build resilient portfolios aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. The transparent, rules-based indexes are built to enable investors implementing net-zero strategies to identify risk and opportunities within a broad investment universe.

Target benefits
Transition to a net-zero economy

Integrate your climate strategy

Access advanced analytics, including forward-looking metrics designed to show alignment with global temperature goals.

Design indexes for your goals

Customize by combining with our ESG, sustainable impact, factor and thematic data indexes and sets.

Align with global regulations

Leverage indexes designed to meet requirements of EU Paris Aligned Benchmark; incorporate TCFD recommendations.

EU Paris Aligned Benchmark Overlay Indexes

Get indexes based on a methodology designed to meet the minimum standards of the EU Paris Aligned Benchmark (PAB) — standards the EU says an index must meet to align with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

 

A PAB overlay index that excludes certain categories of fossil-fuel intensive companies, for example, would make further adjustments to reduce the index-level carbon intensity to meet PAB criteria.

 

Use Climate Paris Aligned Indexes as:

 

  • A basis for index-based strategies such as mutual funds, ETFs, derivatives and structured products
  • Reference or policy benchmarks to support net-zero strategies
  • Climate performance benchmarks for actively managed climate-aligned portfolios

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