{"id":14101,"date":"2023-10-11T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:15:16","slug":"msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/","title":{"rendered":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-14101\" data-postid=\"14101\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-14101 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today an agreement to acquire Trove Research, a specialist data, analysis and advisory firm focused on corporate climate action, carbon markets and the energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move marks MSCI\u2019s entry into the rapidly evolving carbon market ecosystem, which includes banks, exchanges and developers. In addition to supporting MSCI\u2019s goal to offer expanded climate solutions, the company said that the acquisition will enable it to offer clients with insights into companies\u2019 transition plans, and the outlook for carbon credit pricing, as well as to increase transparency into carbon credit quality,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSCI Chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe voluntary carbon market has a key role to play in helping the world achieve net-zero emissions while helping our clients navigate the transition. Trove Research offers unique data and insights on how the market works and what can be done to improve it. By combining these tools with our integrated franchise, diverse client base, and wide range of capabilities, MSCI will strengthen its position as a leading provider of climate-related investment solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition comes as demand for carbon offset projects and related credits is expected to increase significantly over the next several years, as companies and businesses increasingly launch net zero ambitions, and turn to offsets as a bridge to their own absolute emissions reduction efforts, or to balance difficult to avoid emissions. The unregulated and rapidly growing market faces a series of challenges, however, with market participants unable to differentiate between high and low quality projects with insufficient or inconsistent data to assess the effectiveness of the projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2015 to provide insights into sustainable asset investing, London-based Trove Research has focused since 2020 exclusively on tracking corporate climate commitments and all aspects of the voluntary carbon credit market. The company provides data and intelligence to users including asset owners and fund managers looking to understand companies\u2019 climate commitments, companies exploring the purchase of carbon credits, and developers and investors creating projects on the ground and raising financing through the sale of carbon credits. The company has grown to more than 50 staff, with offices across 3 continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guy Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Trove Research, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cTrove\u2019s mission has always been to use data and analysis to help facilitate better investment decisions. Combining Trove\u2019s deep carbon market data and analytics with the scale and breadth of MSCI\u2019s sustainability and financial data will allow us to create truly world-leading climate solutions and bring real value to clients. I look forward to what we will achieve together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today an agreement to acquire Trove Research, a specialist data, analysis and advisory firm focused on corporate climate action, carbon markets and the energy transition. The move marks MSCI\u2019s entry into the rapidly evolving carbon market ecosystem, which includes banks, exchanges and developers. In addition to supporting MSCI\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today an agreement to acquire Trove Research, a specialist data, analysis and advisory firm focused on corporate climate action, carbon markets and the energy transition. The move marks MSCI\u2019s entry into the rapidly evolving carbon market ecosystem, which includes banks, exchanges and developers. In addition to supporting MSCI\u2019s [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ESG Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESGToday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MSCI2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"698\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Segal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@EsgToday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EsgToday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Segal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Segal\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cca7a2b05e3a06d096e5740fb1433a01\"},\"headline\":\"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\"},\"wordCount\":430,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"ESG Tools, Services\",\"M&amp;A\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\",\"name\":\"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/\",\"name\":\"ESG Today\",\"description\":\"ESG investing news, analysis, research and information\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ESG Today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ESG-Today-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ESG-Today-Logo.png\",\"width\":618,\"height\":350,\"caption\":\"ESG Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESGToday\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EsgToday\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/esg-today\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cca7a2b05e3a06d096e5740fb1433a01\",\"name\":\"Mark Segal\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68fbfd7923e36d210feb00a7621096af?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68fbfd7923e36d210feb00a7621096af?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Segal\"},\"description\":\"Mark founded ESG Today following a 20 year career in investment management and research. Prior to founding ESG Today, Mark worked at Delaney Capital Management (DCM) in Toronto, Canada, most recently as the firm\u2019s head of U.S. equities. While at DCM, Mark was part of the firm\u2019s ESG team, responsible for evaluating and tracking the sustainability factors impacting portfolio companies, and assessing the suitability of companies for portfolio inclusion. Mark also spent several years in the sell-side research industry, covering the technology and services sectors. Mark holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, a BBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, and is a CFA charterholder.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/author\/mo-segal9\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today","og_description":"Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today an agreement to acquire Trove Research, a specialist data, analysis and advisory firm focused on corporate climate action, carbon markets and the energy transition. The move marks MSCI\u2019s entry into the rapidly evolving carbon market ecosystem, which includes banks, exchanges and developers. In addition to supporting MSCI\u2019s [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/","og_site_name":"ESG Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESGToday\/","article_published_time":"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1201,"height":698,"url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MSCI2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Segal","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@EsgToday","twitter_site":"@EsgToday","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Segal","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/"},"author":{"name":"Mark Segal","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cca7a2b05e3a06d096e5740fb1433a01"},"headline":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research","datePublished":"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/"},"wordCount":430,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["ESG Tools, Services","M&amp;A"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/","name":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research - ESG Today","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-11T10:15:15+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-11T10:15:16+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/msci-acquires-carbon-markets-advisory-trove-research\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/","name":"ESG Today","description":"ESG investing news, analysis, research and information","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#organization","name":"ESG Today","url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ESG-Today-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ESG-Today-Logo.png","width":618,"height":350,"caption":"ESG Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESGToday\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/EsgToday","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/esg-today\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cca7a2b05e3a06d096e5740fb1433a01","name":"Mark Segal","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68fbfd7923e36d210feb00a7621096af?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68fbfd7923e36d210feb00a7621096af?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Segal"},"description":"Mark founded ESG Today following a 20 year career in investment management and research. Prior to founding ESG Today, Mark worked at Delaney Capital Management (DCM) in Toronto, Canada, most recently as the firm\u2019s head of U.S. equities. While at DCM, Mark was part of the firm\u2019s ESG team, responsible for evaluating and tracking the sustainability factors impacting portfolio companies, and assessing the suitability of companies for portfolio inclusion. Mark also spent several years in the sell-side research industry, covering the technology and services sectors. Mark holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, a BBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, and is a CFA charterholder.","url":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/author\/mo-segal9\/"}]}},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}