The MSCI Net-Zero Tracker

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July 9, 2021

The MSCI Institute Net-Zero Tracker indicates the collective progress of the world's listed companies toward curing climate risk. The report, which highlights companies' alignment with global climate goals based on a series of indicators used by participants across capital markets, offers investors, companies, financial intermediaries and policymakers an objective gauge of advancement toward a low-carbon economy. The MSCI Net-Zero Tracker offers investors, companies, financial intermediaries and policymakers an objective gauge of the contribution by the world's listed companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.

2 7 Months left to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C
Time remaining until listed companies deplete the emissions budget for limiting global temperature rise this century to 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial levels.
2 1 4 Months left to keep warming well below 2 degrees C
Time remaining until listed companies deplete the emissions budget for keeping global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

We're running out of time to reach net-zero emissions

Source: MSCI ESG Research, data as of Aug 31, 2024. The hourglass and countdown clock show annual total Scope 1 emissions of MSCI ACWI IMI constituents (not index-weighted) based on listed companies' reported emissions data and MSCI estimates as of Aug 31, 2024. Emissions for 2023 that companies haven't yet reported are based solely on MSCI estimates, given a lag in company reporting. The remaining future emissions budget to achieve a 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C warming scenario are calculated based on bottom-up estimates (sum of remaining emissions budget of all MSCI ACWI IMI constituents) as of Aug. 31, 2024.

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A periodic report on progress by the world's listed companies toward curbing climate change risk.
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;"><i><sup>1</sup>The MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index (IMI) captures large-, mid- and small-cap representation across 23 developed-market and 27 emerging market countries. With 9,189 constituents, the index covers approximately 99% of the global equity investment opportunity set, as of May 31, 2022. </i></span></p><p> </p>

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