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Time remaining to rein in the worst impacts of a warming climate

The MSCI Sustainability Institute Net-Zero Tracker

Nearly two-thirds of listed companies are on a trajectory that would warm the planet by more than 2°C (3.6°F) above preindustrial levels, reports the latest issue of the Institute’s Net-Zero Tracker, a periodic report on corporate climate progress.

Companies are likely to burn through their share of the global carbon budget for limiting the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5°C (2.7°F) by October 2026, the report finds.

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Unavoidable opportunity: How to make climate adaptation and resilience investable

Products and services from more than 800 publicly listed companies (about 11% of listed companies globally) contribute to climate adaptation and resilience, finds an analysis by the Global Adaptation and Resilience Investor (GARI) working group and the MSCI Sustainability Institute.

Researchers from the Institute and GARI used an AI large language model to surface companies whose businesses span activities ranging from water-efficient agriculture and supply-chain resilience to weatherization of power infrastructure and buildings.

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Climate change dominates investors’ outlook, Stanford-MSCI Sustainability Institute survey finds

The world’s biggest institutional investors say unequivocally that climate change is likely to affect the performance of investments over the medium term, a survey by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and the MSCI Sustainability Institute finds.

Ninety-three percent of investors say that that climate issues are most likely to affect the performance of investments over the next two to five years, according to the survey of owners and managers of assets, a plurality (43%) of whom oversee more than USD 250 billion. At the same time, just 4% of investors say climate risks are mostly reflected in the price of financial assets, while three-quarters (72%) say such risks are somewhat reflected in asset values

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The biggest institutional investors overwhelmingly see climate change as the sustainability issue most likely to affect the performance of investments in the next two to five years.

Source: Stanford-MSCI Sustainability Institute survey

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