Does the Environmental Pillar Matter?

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19 min listen
Xinxin Wang, Elchin Mammadov, Michael Disabato
October 11, 2024
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Today is the last part of a three-part series we've done for ESG now: we examine whether investors should care about incorporating environmental data into equity analysis. In previous episodes we discussed the social pillar and the governance pillar, now it’s on to the environmental pillar of our ESG ratings model. We look at the environmental pillar as a whole and the themes that build it and tell you whether companies that scored well on each theme performed better than their lower scoring peers.
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Michael Disabato
Michael Disabato
Vice President, MSCI Research
Xinxin Wang
Xinxin Wang
Executive Director, MSCI Research & Development
Elchin Mammadov
Elchin Mammadov
Executive Director, MSCI Research

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