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- IntroductionClimate-related innovation and carbon management as leading indicators of financial performance.
- Fact sheetsTwo page summaries of each index including performance data, challenges and recommendations.
- Scores and rankingsResults from the first cycle including overall scores for each company.
- Rating toolsThe Maplecroft CII methodology, questionnaire and process of rating and engaging with participating companies.
The Maplecroft CIIs are attractive to investors because they:
- Focus on innovation
- Include stocks with strong financial performance
- Are unique in their high sector diversification and focus on US stocks
- Promote capital inflows into companies that develop climate change solutions
Climate change is one of the key business and economic issues of our time. Companies that successfully innovate and manage climate-related opportunities and risks are better equipped to operate in changing policy environments; to deal with increased investor scrutiny regarding future growth environments; and, adapt to the physical impacts of climate change on their operations and markets.
The Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (CIIs) include:
- The Maplecroft CII Benchmark (Bloomberg ticker: CICOMP)
c.300 of the largest US companies screened from c.800 companies - The Maplecroft CII Leaders (Bloomberg ticker: CII)
The 100 top performing companies from the Maplecroft CII Benchmark - The Maplecroft CII US 100 (Bloomberg ticker: CI100)
The 100 largest US companies by free-float market capitalisation
Companies in the Maplecroft CIIs have been systematically rated using a fully transparent process that scores companies across five dimensions of performance: management, mitigation, data, innovation and adaptation.
The CII questionnaire is based on international environmental and carbon accounting standards including ISO 14001, ISO 14064, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and others. Questions have been further validated by Maplecroft following more than five years of in-field auditing, piloting and refinement with leading-edge global brands. Questions are systematically scored, peer reviewed and quantified by experienced analysts, with companies encouraged to engage and feed back on their scores.
Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs
Chief Executive, Maplecroft
Global Head of Sustainability, Bloomberg
Director of Research Strategy, Maplecroft
CII Manager, Maplecroft
CII 2010 performance as calculated by BloombergWeek ending 05/03/10