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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EXPANDING OUR
ESG CAPABILITIES
Throughout 2021, we achieved significant milestones in the
expansion of our ESG capabilities, including:
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The launch of Climate Solutions, our comprehensive
product suite dedicated to the identification,
quantification and monitoring of climate risks. In
2021, we expanded our data coverage of the physical
risks posed by climate change with new sub-sovereign
climate risk scores that quantify population-weighted
exposure to floods, heat stress, hurricanes and
typhoons, sea level rise, water stress and wildfires. The
scores complement our expanding coverage of forward-
looking physical risk data for locations globally,
including scores for 200 sovereigns. In December, we
announced the launch of Temperature Alignment
Data, a net-zero solution that assesses how companies'
emissions targets align with global temperature
benchmarks and tracks their progress toward meeting
those targets.
As part of our ESG Measures offering, focused on ESG
data, scores and assessments, we announced:
The introduction of ESG Score Predictor, a first-
of-its-kind tool to generate real-time predicted
ESG scores for millions of public and private SMEs
worldwide. Based on a model derived from our
proprietary ESG scoring methodology for
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large-cap corporates, the ESG Score Predictor
provides financial institutions with essential
quantitative data for portfolio and risk management,
and helps companies monitor ESG risk across their
global supply chains.
The expansion of regulatory data solutions, such
as Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
Principal Adverse Impact (SFDR PAI) Data covering
thousands of entities, a bespoke ESG data solution
aimed at helping market participants meet European
Union SFDR requirements. In October, we launched
EU Taxonomy Alignment Screening, a new data
solution that helps market participants, including
asset managers, banks and insurance companies,
respond to disclosure requirements under the
evolving EU Taxonomy regulation.
The establishment of two normative standard
screening solutions, Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG) Alignment Screening and Global
Compact Screening, that help enable investors and
other market participants to integrate the SDGS
into their strategies and evaluate the alignment
of approximately 5,000 listed companies with
the sustainability-focused principles of the United
Nations Global Compact respectively.
In 2022, we launched Moody's ESG360-an easy-to-use
platform delivering transparent ESG and climate data
and insights through an intuitive interface. Throughout
the year, we will also enhance Moody's ESG assessments
methodology based on our double materiality approach.View entire presentation