观点气候变化

Ignoring climate risk is more costly than grappling with it

A trio of recent deals tells us something important about capital markets: that 2020 may be the year when climate-risk analysis of portfolios moves out of a niche into the mainstream. Investors and boards have begun to realise that it can be more costly to ignore these issues, than to try to grapple with them.

Last September MSCI, the global index company, bought Carbon Delta, a boutique focusing on climate risk analysis. A few months earlier Moody’s acquired Four Twenty Seven, a similar boutique. Last year ended with S&P  making a move for sustainable index player RobecoSAM.

Several factors are driving the trend.

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