Chapter two of MSCI’s Net-Zero Now Documentary underscores the risks investors may face if they don’t prepare for a net-zero future.
The shift to a net-zero world is happening, and investors will need to get in front of the change if they are to avoid risks to their portfolios – not to mention the catastrophic impacts of severe climate change.
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The world’s largest investors have pledged to cut portfolio emissions by half this decade and to net-zero in the two that follow. More and more companies are setting climate targets. Now comes the time for converting those commitments to action amid the added urgency to bolster energy security sparked by the conflict in Ukraine.
The goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit the average global temperature rise to well below 2°C, and preferably to no more than 1.5°C, by 2021 from pre-industrial levels. To achieve this objective, the world needs to reduce its net emission of greenhouse gases to zero — and soon. In this third MSCI Net-Zero Alignment paper, we examine the challenges presented by both climate change and the net-zero transition to investors looking to measure and manage climate risk in their portfolios.
Three categories of Scope 3 emissions — purchased goods and services, use of sold products and investments — contributed over 70% of the total carbon footprint for constituents of the MSCI USA Investable Market Index. We found that constituents of the MSCI USA IMI that report GHG emissions to ...
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