MSCI launches MSCI Sustainability Institute to drive progress on the role of capital markets in creating sustainable value
12 Setembro 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- New initiative will foster collaboration among thought leaders
on critical global challenges
- MSCI’s Linda-Eling Lee to lead the Institute
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision
support tools and services for the global investment community,
today announced the launch of the MSCI Sustainability Institute
(“the Institute”).
The Institute aims to drive progress on the role of capital
markets in creating sustainable value and tackling global
challenges such as climate change. It will leverage MSCI’s
experience and expertise in the investment industry to spur
collaboration across finance, academia, government, NGOs, think
tanks and companies from different sectors, while helping to close
the gaps between strategy-setting data, analysis, policy and
action.
Advancing the transition to a clean-energy economy and
addressing other long-term risks demands that leaders across the
capital markets ecosystem work together. The Institute will support
collaborative endeavors by offering:
- Access to data and know-how – The Institute will equip
academic researchers and policymakers with sustainability data,
metrics and models that investors use to inform their
decision-making. It plans to collaborate with select academic
institutions, including Stanford University’s Graduate School of
Business, to host training designed to help researchers and
students understand the purpose and applications of these metrics
for capital allocation and keep pace with the fast-evolving
sustainability data landscape.
- Exploration of new approaches – The Institute will
encourage innovators from across the capital markets ecosystem to
pilot new data and approaches for measurement that provide insights
on emerging topics in sustainable finance and inform capital
allocation decisions. This includes a framework for investment in
climate resilience developed by the Global Adaptation and
Resilience Investment Working Group (GARI), with analytical backing
from the Institute and financial support from the Bezos Earth Fund
and ClimateWorks Foundation.
- Decision-useful research – The Institute will curate a
selection of important academic papers useful to investors and
companies. Initially, the selection will highlight studies that
investigate how sustainability factors interact with the value of
financial assets.
- Forum for debate – The Institute will bring together
leaders from across the capital markets ecosystem to exchange
diverse points of view on sustainability risks and opportunities.
These discussions will be grounded in the highest-quality research
and a commitment to analytical rigor and objectivity.
“Global challenges such as climate change cannot be solved by
governments, corporations, NGOs or multilateral organizations
alone,” said Henry Fernandez, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of MSCI. “The most meaningful solutions all require
some type of cross-sector collaboration. Through the MSCI
Sustainability Institute, we will bring together a wide range of
thinkers with complementary strengths and expertise, and help them
turn data-driven ideas into real-world influence and action.”
Linda-Eling Lee appointed to lead MSCI Sustainability
Institute
Linda-Eling Lee has been named Founding Director and Head of
MSCI Sustainability Institute. Linda most recently led global ESG
and climate research at MSCI, where she built an industry-leading
team of analysts dedicated to understanding long-term drivers of
sustainable value and investment risk. She is widely recognized as
an industry pioneer and established thought leader in the fields of
ESG and sustainability and has been named one of the 100 Most
Influential Women in U.S. Finance1.
“We are incredibly excited to work with investors, academics,
policymakers, NGOs and companies across industries, leveraging
MSCI’s experience in developing new ways to measure both financial
and non-financial value,” said Linda-Eling Lee, Founding
Director and Head of the MSCI Sustainability Institute.
“Together, we will deepen knowledge of how capital markets can help
drive sustainable value.”
Hiromichi Mizuno, who recently joined MSCI as a Special Advisor
to the CEO, will advise MSCI Sustainability Institute in that
capacity. He will help build the Institute’s advisory group,
including leading investors, academics and other thought
leaders.
More information on the MSCI Sustainability Institute can be
found on its website, msci-institute.com.
About MSCI Inc.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools
and services for the global investment community. With over 50
years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power
better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and
analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more
effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve
transparency across the investment process.
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1 Fortuna, Nick. “100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance:
Linda-Eling Lee.” Barron's, April 2022.
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