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Moody’s Net Zero Assessment Is The Latest Climate Financial Data Innovation

Nov 24, 2023

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Ryan Skinner
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Last week, risk assessment firm Moody’s announced the launch of Net Zero Assessment – a scoring framework for evaluating organizations’ decarbonization plans and progress. With trillions of dollars in finance needed to fund global decarbonization, Moody’s – along with peers like Bloomberg, MSCI and S&P Global – is rapidly developing the mechanisms to steer that money, in a category we call climate financial data. Our research shows that many of these providers are already tracking firms’ net zero targets or – like S&P Global’s Trucost Paris Alignment Dataset – assessing their carbon intensity.

In this newest innovation, Moody’s looks keen to go a step further. The Net Zero Assessment framework will assign each organization a rating from one to five based on Moody’s confidence that its decarbonization profile is in line with a Paris Agreement-aligned 1.5 degree warming scenario, as assessed from the firm’s actual plans, their implementation and emissions reduction governance. For more about climate financial data, see Verdantix Smart Innovators: Net Zero Financial Data And Analytics Providers.

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Ryan is the Research Director for the Verdantix Net Zero & Climate Risk practice. He guides the research team to develop compelling research at the intersection of net zero strategies, carbon management, climate risk and technology. Prior to joining Verdantix, Ryan was a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where he initiated the research into ESG data and analytics offerings. He also has extensive experience of helping software companies with their messaging, positioning, market and technology strategies. Ryan studied at Duke University, the University of Manchester and the University of Oslo, and speaks Norwegian fluently.

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