Can finance really deliver a net-zero economy?
Markets have been hailed as the key lever to decarbonize the global economy — but emissions keep rising. When it comes to climate change, how much can the financial industry accomplish?
Sustainability
AI for sustainable finance: Avoiding the four horsemen of failure
If we properly understand how collective wisdom improves human decision-making, we can better tap the power of AI to better assess risks like those posed by climate change and calculate responses to the future.
How citizen-based financing can drive sustainable development
Financial institutions have turned away from climate and sustainable investment goals amid a broader political backlash. For a new way forward, citizens, enabled by digital financial tools, can fund projects with broader payoffs.
Harnessing AI to make climate adaptation investable
Climate finance has so far largely focused on putting money into efforts to cut carbon emissions. The MSCI Sustainability Institute set out to find the businesses needed to respond to the increasingly unavoidable impacts of a hotter world.
‘Make it profitable to save the world’
Mathias Wikström, founder of the Sweden-based climate fintech startup Doconomy, explores how more knowledge changes behavior and how sustainability can future-proof the banking sector.
Open-borders banking: A futuristic vision of global financial inclusion
In many countries, a lack of basic financial services holds back development and saddles citizens with unnecessary burdens. Why not throw open the borders and let people bank anywhere in the world? The technology already exists today.
Climate fintech is adapting to a rapidly shifting landscape
Climate fintech startups have weathered turbulence in the venture capital markets better than most. But the sector is being shaped by starkly different regulatory approaches worldwide, and by the emerging political backlash against sustainability.
Fintech will drive the future of sustainable investment
Huge sums of money are needed for sustainable green investments in the coming decades, with the private sector carrying much of the load. Fintech advances like blockchain, big data and AI can help power the market.