The Target and Commitments dataset from MSCI ESG Research helps investors evaluate companies’ pledges to decarbonize and compare decarbonization commitments among companies. The dataset details and standardizes the publicly stated commitments of most publicly listed companies to provide a complete picture of their targets in a single view. The dataset can help investors assess companies’ plans to reach net-zero emissions and inform climate risk engagement.

• The Climate Target Scorecard is designed to help investor: Untangle corporate decarbonization pledges, Compare decarbonization commitments by publicly listed companies, Inform climate risk engagement, Report portfolio emissions pursuant to frameworks such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
• This dataset provides a snapshot of a company’s decarbonization target and main drivers of carbon emissions
• This dataset illustrates the aggregate projected reduction in carbon emissions the company has pledged to achieve each year
• This dataset is based on Comprehensiveness, which addresses whether a target is focused on all scopes and geographic sources of the company’s total emissions
• On Ambition, which refers to the amount of the emissions reduction embedded in the target and the target timeline
• On Feasibility, which refers to how much confidence an organization can have that a net-zero target will be achieved

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