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The Role of Capital in the Net-Zero Revolution
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Climate change is the single greatest challenge humankind has faced and its consequences are already all too apparent. The rise in climate disasters over the past two decades has led to the deaths of over 1.2 million people and affecting more than 4 billion people in total1.
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Our Call to Action
At MSCI, we believe that addressing the impacts of climate change will require the largest reconstruction of the global economy since the Industrial Revolution.
Capital markets are an essential and critical force to drive the transition to net-zero with concerted action from all participants, ranging from a reallocation of capital by asset owners, to effective channeling of funds by asset managers and banks to greener investments and innovation. Companies have a fundamental responsibility to reduce their impact on the planet and join the journey to a decarbonized economy.
The time to act is now. We urgently call on all capital-markets participants to play a vital role in the net-zero revolution to keep global temperature rise well below 2oC.
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MSCI: Doing Our Part
At MSCI, we are committed to providing necessary research, tools and solutions to help all market participants accelerate this economic transformation. In addition to climate indexes and other climate-related data, MSCI will provide advanced analytical tools to help companies better measure their transition and physical risks to better align with a net-zero trajectory.
The MSCI Net-Zero Tracker offers investors, companies, financial intermediaries and policymakers an objective gauge of the contribution by the world's public companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.
MSCI’s Net-Zero Now Documentary examines how investors are measuring the temperature of their investments, untangling corporate commitments to reach net-zero emissions and uncovering the potential for outperformance by businesses built for a Net-Zero world.
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MSCI’s Net-Zero Commitment
We believe that we should conduct MSCI’s business in line with the expectations we have asked of others, upholding the same high standards. We want to lead by example.
To achieve this goal throughout MSCI’s global operations, MSCI has committed to achieve net-zero emissions before 2040.
Getting to net-zero reflects our goal of taking meaningful action to make climate considerations part of our strategy, operations and culture now and for years and decades to come. It builds on MSCI’s Principles of Sustainable Investing, which sound the alarm to global investors that a convergence of environmental, social and governance factors will impact the pricing of financial assets and precipitate a large-scale reallocation of capital.
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1There are varying definitions of net-zero. We use the definition adopted by the 2015 Paris Agreement, which requires greenhouse-gas emissions to be balanced with an equivalent amount of carbon removal.