About EcoMap
A Research-Led Environmental Impact Project translating environmental data into actionable insights.
EcoMap is a research project initiated by leading academics and industry professionals with a shared goal: to make environmental impact visible. It is supported by an advisory board that combines academic excellence with private-sector expertise. EcoMap's interdisciplinary team is dedicated to bridging the gap between advanced academic research and real-world industry practices.
A Research-Led Environmental Impact and Analytics Project
EcoMap is a research-led, not-for-profit platform that envisions a world where climate analysis is seamlessly integrated into every corporate and investment decision. By translating environmental impact into a common language—money, EcoMap provides objective, standardized, and accessible data to measure and compare environmental costs across companies, industries, and countries. Its mission is to enable responsible decisions that align financial profitability with sustainability, driving measurable progress.
Peer-reviewed Academic Research to Solve Real-world Challenges
EcoMap's analyses are grounded in peer reviewed, science-based data, obtained through collaborations and partnerships with esteemed academic institutions and the MSCI Sustainability Institute using MSCI ESG Research LLC data. EcoMap applies a bottom-up monetization approach informed by peer-reviewed academic research to translate reported environmental data into monetary terms.
Bridging Environmental and Financial Insights
EcoMap integrates environmental cost analysis into existing financial decision-making frameworks. By bridging the gap between environmental and financial data, EcoMap aligns environmental and financial performance. Through the double materiality lens, EcoMap clarifies not only how environmental conditions may affect a firm's financial performance, but also how the firm's operations impose tangible costs on society and ecosystems.
EcoMap Partners
SNF is a part of the Norwegian School of Economics, dedicated to the task of initiation and undertaking research based studies for central decision makers in private and public sectors. SNF is one of Norway's leading research institutes within Environmental Economics and approved by the Research Council of Norway.
The MSCI Sustainability Institute is on a mission to drive progress by capital markets to create sustainable value and tackle global challenges. Its goal is to foster alignment of data, analysis, policy and practice. It does this by drawing upon MSCI's experience and expertise in the investment industry to spur collaboration across finance, academia, business, government and civil society
Initiators
Advisory Board
The advisory board includes prominent professors and researchers from institutions such as the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Utrecht University, ensuring the platform is academically rigorous and grounded in cutting-edge research. Alongside this, representatives from global organisations and networks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) and member of scientific advisory group at Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), together with industry leaders ranging from asset managers to corporate executives, bring practical insights to ensure real-world relevance.
