Chinese Investors & Climate Change
New Climate Change Index for Chinese Investors Source: Shanghai Stock Exchange Promoting the Environment, Social and Governance Standards MSCI, the New York City based financial services company, has launched Climate Change indexes for China stocks. The indexes allow investors in China to put their money into companies with lower carbon emissions. The indexes allocate more weighting to less polluting companies, such as the internet giant Tencent and LONGi Green Energy Technology. MSCI has launched similar Climate Change indexes in the EU, US and Japan. MSCI is a global provider of equity, fixed income, hedge fund stock market indexes and analysis tools. Megatrend: Investors Focusing on Climate Change MSCI expects global investors to increasingly focus on Climate Change and put their money into companies with strong pro-environment policies and results. MSCI is in discussions with a number of institutions about creating investment products based...