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EcoMap is a research organization and open platform, developed in collaboration with MSCI Sustainability Institute and leading academic institutions. The platform provides quantified and monetized environmental costs (also labeled externalities) through impact accounting — starting with greenhouse gas emissions and integrating these values into financial analysis. Developed and operated without a profit motive, EcoMap provides accessible, transparent, and academically rigorous analysis of environmental impacts. By enabling stakeholders across industry, academia, government, and civil society to understand the total economic impact of corporate activities, EcoMap ensures that environmental considerations are actionable, comparable, and free from commercial influence.

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EcoMap is planning to expand the scope of the data coverage on the platform to include other environmental costs, such as air pollution, water consumption, waste generation, land use and conversion, and water pollution. This is subject to data availability, which is expected to improve in the coming years due to reporting requirements imposed by CSRD.

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Stay tuned. We will periodically release new research on environmental costs and their integration into financial analysis.

How Prepared Are Companies for Rising Carbon Costs?

Published on 2025-02-12

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Carbon pricing has been described as 'the most important number you've never heard of'. The metric is meant to capture the harm caused by a ton of carbon emissions, making it a foundation of national climate change policy.

How Prepared Are Companies for Rising Carbon Costs?

How Environmental Impact Accounting Is Reshaping Corporate Decision-Making

Published on 2025-02-10

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The landscape of corporate financial decision-making is undergoing a fundamental transformation. As environmental data becomes increasingly material to business operations, companies are grappling with a critical challenge: how to effectively measure, monetize, and act upon their environmental impact.

How Environmental Impact Accounting Is Reshaping Corporate Decision-Making

Economic Theory

Published on 2025-01-14

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A comprehensive analysis of global carbon pricing mechanisms and their effectiveness in reducing emissions.

Economic Theory

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Carbon Emissions Impact Pathway

IMPACT DRIVER

Operational social cost of carbon

Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources

Indirect emissions from purchased electricity, steam, heating, and cooling

Indirect social cost of carbon

All other indirect emissions in a company's value chain

ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES

Increasing concentration of atmospheric GHGs

SOCIETAL IMPACTS

Decreased Human Health

Increased Natural Disasters

Disrupted Energy Systems

Degraded Ecosystems

Reduced Agriculture Productivity

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Globally consistent monetization of environmental costs applicable across industries and countries

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