CR Featured content

Environmental sustainability

While our environmental impact as an innovative company providing data and technology solutions to global institutional investors is relatively small, we take action to reduce our impact on the planet. We believe in being transparent about the progress we make toward our climate-related goals and how we address climate-related risks and opportunities.

Social practices

We are committed to retaining and developing our people to foster a high-performing workforce that drives innovation and delivers impactful products and research to the market. Our talent management, inclusion and belonging, learning and development, flexible work, and safety and well-being programs enable us to attract top talent and create an environment where employees are engaged and can thrive. Acting responsibly is also central to our approach to supply chain management and information security.

Governance Practices

Responsible business and robust governance

We believe in the importance of robust governance practices. Our governance structure is intended to allocate proper oversight of key risks, functions and opportunities across our Board of Directors and management, ensuring integrity in everything we do.

Enabling sustainable investing

Investors today understand, better than ever before, how sustainability and climate considerations can impact long-term risks and opportunities in financial markets. Our research-based content, investor-grade data and integrated solutions are designed to help clients incorporate sustainability considerations and navigate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

 


Spotlight - CR 2024

Spotlight

We are committed to reaching net-zero by 2040, aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Our near-term, long-term and net-zero science-based CO2e emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.2

We set milestones to achieve in 2025: Source 100% renewable electricity, reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 COe2e emissions by 60%, and increase to 60% by spend our suppliers with science-based targets.3

Our Board is actively engaged in overseeing MSCI's corporate responsibility efforts.

MSCI has engaged in several industry initiatives and collaborative frameworks, including:

PRI Signatory

MSCI has been a PRI signatory since 2010.

TNFD member and Early Adopter of the TNFD

We are a forum member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and in 2024 committed to becoming an early adopter of the TNFD framework.

NZFSPA and GFANZ

In September 2021, MSCI became a founding member of the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA). The NZFSPA is part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.

CR Related content

CR Footnotes

1For example, MSCI research found a significant historical correlation between a company’s MSCI ESG Rating and its financing costs. Companies assessed to be the most resilient to financially material sustainability-related risks consistently financed themselves more cheaply than those considered more vulnerable. See the full research paper MSCI ESG Ratings and Cost of Capital: June 2024.

2CO2e is a unit used to express the global warming potential of different greenhouse gases as a single figure, namely the equivalent amount or concentration of carbon dioxide.

32019 is the base year for our CO2e reduction targets.