Climate VaR provides insights into the potential climate stressed market valuation of investment portfolios and downside risks. MSCI ESG Research’s financial modeling approach translates climate-related costs into valuation impacts on companies and their publicly tradable securities. In this way, the Climate VaR framework is designed to help investors to understand the potential climate-related downside risk and/or upside opportunity in their investment portfolios.

• Scenario analysis on climate risks and opportunities
• Identify optimal low carbon investment projects
• Identification of long-term, climate-related impacts for asset allocation, external manager evaluation and regulatory disclosure

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