2021 Stakeholder Sustainability Report
A MESSAGE FROM OUR
PRESIDENT & CEO
2021 SUSTAINABILITY
HIGHLIGHTS
ABOUT MOODY'S
BETTER BUSINESS
BETTER LIVES
BETTER SOLUTIONS
APPENDIX
Moody's 2021 Stakeholder Sustainability Report
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SUSTAINABILITY AT MOODY'S
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Established Moody's Foundation
Launched employee-led Business
Resource Groups
2002
2008
Published our inaugural TCFD Report
Joined the UN Global Compact,
including becoming a founding
member of its CFO Taskforce for
the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and signing its
Business Ambition for 1.5°C pledge
Became a signatory of the
Principles for Responsible
Investment
>>> Published General Principles for
Assessing Environmental, Social
and Governance Risks, detailing
our approach for incorporating ESG
in credit ratings
Acquired majority stake in V.E,
global provider of ESG research,
and in Four Twenty Seven, leading
provider of climate risk tools
Set science-based targets for
reducing GHG emissions,
published Decarbonization
Plan and joined the Say on
Climate campaign
Appointed our first Chief
Diversity Officer, with the DE&I
function established in 2007
Committed $1 million to equal
justice and support of the Black
community, and committed to
achieve Management Leadership
for Tomorrow's Black Equity at
Work Certification
>>> Launched a comprehensive ESG
Solutions unit to serve the growing
demand for ESG insights
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Published first Stakeholder
Sustainability Report and
launched sustainability website
>>> Published inaugural DE&I
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Updated MIS's ESG cross-sector
methodology, published
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in 2019, providing greater
transparency on how ESG
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considerations are incorporated
into credit ratings
Report and established tangible
commitments to advance DE&I
Implemented a new software to
streamline our global pay equity
analysis
Committed to achieve net-zero
across our operations and value
chain by 2040
Became a founding member of
the Net Zero Financial Services
Provider Alliance
Joined the Taskforce on
Nature-related Financial
Disclosures (TNFD)
Updated our Environmental
Sustainability Policy
Published our EEO-1 data publicly
for the first time
Acquired RMS, a leader in climate
and natural disaster risk modeling
and analytics
2017
2019
2020
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