From Awareness to Action: Assessing Nature-Related Physical Risks
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MSCI GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence | MSCI Biodiversity Risk Metrics | MSCI Nature Risk Matrix Methodology
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Nature-related physical risks are inherently local: the same business dependency can create very different financial exposure depending on where a company operates. This research explores how investors can move from understanding that principle to assessing it systematically.
Combining WWF’s Biodiversity Risk Filter with MSCI’s GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence, we examine nature-related physical risks across 163 Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) sub-industries and seven risk types.1 The analysis identifies 23 sub-industries with high exposure across multiple risk categories and introduces the MSCI Nature Risk Matrix, a framework designed to translate location-specific insights into signals that can support portfolio analysis and index construction.
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1 GICS is the industry-classification standard jointly developed by MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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