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 9 About This Report Our 2021 Stakeholder Sustainability Report builds on our inaugural 2020 report and highlights our progress toward incorporating sustainability into both our corporate performance and our products and solutions. For the purposes of this report, "sustainability" encompasses our ability to manage key risks and opportunities while also positively impacting our people, society and the financial markets. As such, this report covers everything from our Decarbonization Plan to our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the protection of our customers' data, as well as the continued integration of ESG considerations into our products and solutions. These strategies and select initiatives from 2021 are highlighted in three main sections, each focused on a different aspect of our global community: Better Business, Better Lives and Better Solutions. We support global efforts toward more consistent and comparable disclosures, and our reporting is in line with globally recognized and relevant ESG reporting frameworks. The metrics in this report cover calendar year 2021, unless stated otherwise, with qualitative discussions also representing early 2022 and future outlooks. The contents of our 2021 report are informed by an independent, comprehensive non-financial materiality assessment and by various leading ESG disclosure standards, including the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative Standards (GRI) and the World Economic Forum's International Business Council's Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (WEF). PROGRESSING OUR REPORTING Our SASB 2020 report was made available for download in SASB XBRL Taxonomy. We have participated in the XBRL tagging pilot program in an effort to help advance more standards-based and comparable disclosure. In 2022, we are looking forward to furthering corporate transparency by joining the United Nations Global Compact's (UNGC) Early Adopters Program and being one of the first companies to disclose using the enhanced Communication on Progress (COP) questionnaire. » Hear more from Mark Kaye, CFO

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