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MSCI in $120m physical risk data deal

The arms race to provide physical climate risk data escalated today as ESG data provider MSCI announced the $120 million acquisition of First Street, and Sustainalytics revealed a new collaboration with data providers.

MSCI's Mattison: 'We need a new framework for understanding risk'

MSCI will put geospatial information and AI at the heart of its new ESG data strategy, Richard Mattison tells Peter Cripps

People Moves, 25 October: MSCI, JP Morgan, LGT, Redwheel ... and more

MSCI appoints Trucost founder Mattison as head of ESG and climate

Richard Mattison will join MSCI as head of ESG and climate at the end of the month, having left rival S&P Global earlier this year.

People Moves, 21 June: GEF, TNFD, GRI, S&P Trucost, UBS ... and more

People Moves, 3 November: Fidelity, Blue Earth Capital, FoSDA, Low Carbon and more

People moves 9 June including Sustainable Fitch, S&P Global, Robeco & more

S&P: ESG scoring must consider overall impact

An environmental, social and governance (ESG) score must measure a company's overall impact on society if it is to meet the "basic principles" of ESG investing, S&P Global has argued.

S&P acquires climate risk data provider

S&P Global has bought The Climate Service, which analyses physical climate risk for corporates, investors and governments.

S&P's Trucost calls for biodiversity risk data platform

The idea for a platform for hosting data showing the risk of biodiversity loss to financial institutions has been raised by Trucost, which sits within S&P Global's market and analytics arm.