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CARBON FOOTPRINT 
MODEL WITH MSCI
Aligning Private Asset Portfolios with a Net-Zero World

Harness the power of MSCI Research and Burgiss Managed Data to take climate change into account across unlisted asset classes.​

Institutional investors are sharpening their focus on the financial impacts of climate change in private asset portfolios. Though climate risk affects every type of asset, the challenge of addressing it intensifies with private portfolios because of the opacity that can characterize private assets.​Limited Partners are aligning their strategies with global temperature targets in addition to assessing climate-related risks and opportunities. General Partners are examining the climate resilience of portfolio companies and other unlisted assets by pursuing climate engagement and offering investors an insight into the impact of transition as well as physical risk on valuations.

What is Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds?

Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds is a tool that offers comprehensive data and analysis for measuring and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions within private equity portfolios. It combines performance data produced by Burgiss Managed Data with climate risk models developed by MSCI ESG Research. This tool helps investors to measure and compare carbon emissions of private companies and other unlisted assets, and to see how climate risk may affect private company valuations.​

Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds is available as an extension of Burgiss Transparency Data, which is delivered through Burgiss’ Private i® Platform, MSCI Analytics, and other third-party platforms.​

Request a demo to see how investors use both MSCI ESG Research and Burgiss Managed Data to account for the impacts of climate change across public and private asset classes.

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Holdings-based Carbon Footprint Analysis Dashboard in the Private i Platform
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How can clients use Carbon Footprinting of Equity and Debt Funds?​

Carbon Footprinting of Equity and Debt Funds helps investors to understand the long-term implications of climate change in private asset portfolios.
 

LIMITED PARTNERS:

  • Measure and monitor the greenhouse gas emissions of private asset portfolios based on estimates for nearly 20,000 companies in nearly 4,000 active private equity and debt funds.

  • Assess carbon intensity metrics based on estimates nearly 50,000 companies and over 6,000 funds.

  • Aggregate and compare emissions by fund, asset class, strategy, or portfolio.

  • Align private asset portfolios with global temperature targets.

  • Identify carbon-intensive investments and low-carbon investment opportunities.

  • Assess how General Partners engage with portfolio companies on climate change as well as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks.

  • Meet net-zero commitments and report on the decarbonization of private asset investments pursuant to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
     

GENERAL PARTNERS:

  • Measure exposure and optimize portfolios based on climate change metrics.

  • Model and set the baseline for portfolio company emissions.

  • Inform climate engagement.

  • Monitor decarbonization efforts and progress against climate targets.

  • Meet net-zero commitments and report climate change metrics to Limited Partners.

  • Create value through decarbonization engagement and alignment with global temperature targets.

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Cutting-Edge Climate Insight Across Your Entire Portfolio

MSCI helps investors to address the financial impacts of climate change at every stage and to better understand how the risks and opportunities of a warming climate may affect their portfolios. Request a demo for Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds, or contact us to discuss aligning your portfolio with growing climate considerations.

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