Collectively, MSCI Inc. and MSCI ESG Research is a leading provider of ESG ratings, indexes and analytical tools. For over 40 years, MSCI ESG Research has measured and modelled ESG risk . MSCI Inc. first developed ESG indexes in 1990.

Our solutions:

• MSCI ESG Research LLC is the world’s largest provider of ESG ratings and research . The team comprised of 300+ ESG experts . For over 13 years , we have rated companies on their exposure to, and management of, industry- specific ESG risks. We rate over 8,500 companies (14,000 issuers including subsidiaries) linked to more than 680,000 equity and fixed income securities . Clients can use ESG ratings to support fundamental and quant analyses, portfolio construction and risk management and thought leadership and engagement

• MSCI ESG Indexes: MSCI Inc. is the world’s largest provider of ESG indexes with over 1,500 ESG Equity and Fixed Income Indexes designed to help institutional investors more effectively benchmark ESG investment performance and manage, measure and report on ESG mandates . The indexes can also be used as the basis for Exchange-Traded-Funds and other index-based products. Over $262 billion in institutional, retail and exchange-traded fund assets are benchmarked to MSCI ESG Equity Indexes . And several global asset owners have selected MSCI ESG Indexes, with over $294 billion allocated in recent years

• MSCI Climate Solutions: MSCI’s Climate Solutions give you access to a wide range of tools, indexes and data designed to enable you to address a variety of needs including measuring and reporting on climate risk exposure, implementing low carbon fossil fuel-free strategies, factoring climate change research into risk management processes and engaging companies and external stakeholders

• MSCI Analytics: our ESG research, data and indexes are available within MSCI’s analytics systems. MSCI Analytics clients can explore ESG exposures on 680,000 securities to support security selection, portfolio construction, stress testing, and risk and performance attribution analysis.

Bankers for Net Zero brings together banks, businesses and regulators to enable banks to successfully support their clients, accelerate the transition to net zero and deliver on the UK government’s ambitions for addressing climate change.

Backed by The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking, Volans and Re:Pattern, the initiative encompasses an ambitious programme of work to develop a policy recommendations ahead of COP26, designed to create a regulatory environment that enables banks to play their part in financing the net-zero transition.
Bankers for NetZero is part of the UK’s Finance Coalition for COP26, which is led by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It includes the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), United Nations Principle for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), Make My Money Matter and Bankers for NetZero.

The coalition is focused on mobilising financial institutions for climate action and collectively encouraging their stakeholders to set high ambition commitments from the financial sector at COP26. Bankers for Net Zero has applied to join the Climate Champion Team’s Race to Zero as a partner, and are currently working with the COP26 team ahead of the summit to encourage as many banks to sign up to the Race to Zero as possible.

Established by the Jeremy Coller Foundation, the FAIRR Initiative is a collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities brought about by intensive livestock production. Through our engagements and research projects, we provide cutting-edge data and best practice tools to help investors integrate these risks and opportunities into their investment decision-making and active stewardship processes.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is the European membership body for investor collaboration on climate change and the voice of investors taking action for a prosperous, low-carbon future. IIGCC has more than 275 members, mainly pension funds and asset managers, across 16 countries, with over €35 trillion in assets under management. IIGCC works to support and help define the public policies, investment practices and corporate behaviours that address the long-term risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

ShareAction is a research and campaigning organisation pushing the global investment system to take responsibility for its impacts on people and planet, and to use its power to create a green, fair, and healthy society.

We want a future where all finance powers social progress. For 15 years ShareAction has driven responsibility into the heart of mainstream investment through research, campaigning, policy advocacy and public mobilisation. Using our tools and expertise, we influence major investors and the companies they invest in to improve labour standards, tackle the climate crisis and address inequality and public health issues.