So, once the targets have been set, investors need to urgently shift into a mode where they can affect large-scale decarbonization.

For investors and companies to get where they want to go, they need to know where they are - and if the steps they're taking now will help position them for success in achieving their net-zero goals.

With the question of why answered, we now need to move on to how. And this is trickier.

Chapter two of MSCI’s Net-Zero Now Documentary underscores the risks investors may face if they don’t prepare for a net-zero future.

The first chapter of MSCI’s Net-Zero Now Documentary sets the stage for how investors are measuring the temperature of their investments.

Net-Zero Now, a documentary by MSCI, examines how decarbonizing the global economy will depend on rechanneling capital.

MSCI Blog

As the world’s biggest companies work toward net-zero, corporations ask: What do we do about our suppliers? Meanwhile, ESG investing truly has gone mainstream (with the regulatory attention to prove it). We review these trends and emerging risks.

ESG Ratings ESG Climate VaR ESG Climate Solutions

MSCI Blog

It’s not just Santa’s North Pole headquarters that are at risk from global warming. Around 75% of the world’s toys are made in China — most coming from the country’s coastal provinces which face an increasing threat of flooding as global temperatures rise.

ESG Climate VaR

As the world’s big companies work to go net zero, downward emissions pressure may become as familiar to suppliers as downward price pressure.

The question of the day is: Are there areas where “need” and “investability” overlap?