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Sylvain Vanston
Executive Director, MSCI Research
Sylvain Vanston is executive director, climate investment research at MSCI, where he helps formulate the firm’s climate-related research agenda and works with clients globally on issues of climate risk reporting, portfolio management, climate-related metrics, biodiversity and reporting.
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Articles by Sylvain Vanston
Making the Most of Mandatory Climate Disclosures
4 mins read Blog | Aug 1, 2023 | Rob Barnett, Sylvain VanstonAs TCFD reporting grows more sophisticated, investors may be able to use climate data to make meaningful disclosures across their firms. We explore three key topics: choice of metrics, internal consistency and cross-functional applications.
California Gets Harder To Insure and the NZIA Gets Smaller
Podcast | Jun 9, 2023 | Sylvain Vanston, Cody DongUnder pressure from wildfires and inflation, State Farm has stopped issuing new homeowner policies in California. We get to the bottom of how physical climate hazards may change the future shape of the insurance industry. And then we ask why the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance is a little different from the other alliances that fall under the GFANZ.
Tracking our climate goals and next steps
Podcast | May 19, 2023 | Chris Cote, Sylvain VanstonAre you aware of how much progress we are making on addressing climate change? There are all-these-pledges and all-these-plans made by companies, but have those plans been useful? Are they actually making progress on cutting emissions or are they just saying, “yeah we care about it, and we will do….something.” And what are those “somethings?” Are they far away technologies that can suck the bad stuff out of our atmosphere like a sort of techno-savior? Or something else? We answer those questions on this episode of ESG now.
What Biodiversity Loss and COP15 Mean for Investors
7 mins read Blog | Feb 16, 2023 | Sylvain Vanston, Arne Philipp KlugInvestors face growing pressure to reverse biodiversity loss. We take a look at the issues shaping nature-related financial risk, key takeaways from the COP15 pact for investors and developments in biodiversity-based disclosure.
What COP27 Means for Companies and Investors
9 mins read Blog | Nov 21, 2022 | Sylvain Vanston, Oliver Marchand, Chris Cote, Simone Ruiz-Vergote, Meggin Thwing EastmanCOP27 underscored the need for action on corporate climate pledges, the importance of data and a series of initiatives to spur public and private investment for developing countries. We review some of the key developments for companies and investors.