That matters for the Apac region, where climate investing remains less mature than in Europe but is moving beyond its early stage. Lieblich says adoption has broadened across the region over the past few years, with climate benchmarks increasingly used not just as investment tools but also as a way for asset owners to understand how climate strategies work.
Climate investing may be getting less attention amid geopolitical tensions and macro uncertainty today, but large asset owners have not fundamentally walked away from it, says Sebastien Lieblich, managing director and head of APAC and EMEA Index at MSCI.
“I’m not sure that climate has taken a backseat, per se, fundamentally,” Lieblich says. “It benefits from less airtime. However ... the large asset owners around the world ... still remain very much committed to their climate policies and climate investments.”
