Moody’s ESG / Solutions

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Moody’s ESG360^™
Clarity at your fingertips

A new platform for portfolio managers that delivers decision-relevant ESG data and insights

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Moody’s expanding capacity to deliver Second Party Opinions

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ESG Issuer Profile Scores and Credit Impact Scores now cover over 1700 issuers globally

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Gain insights into the climate risk exposure of cities and regions globally

Sub-Sovereign Physical Climate Risk Scores

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Moody's Investors Service has assigned Carbon Transition Assessment (CTA) scores for nearly 400 rated issuers worldwide

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Gauge your investments’ alignment to international market standards

Normative Standard Screening

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Sectors with $3.4 trillion in debt face heightened environmental credit risk

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Moody's is committed to a systematic and integrated ESG approach in its credit ratings and risk management solutions. We continue to develop new tools and analytics to help identify and measure ESG risks and opportunities.

ANDREA BLACKMAN

Managing Director, Global Head of Moody’s ESG Solutions Group

A growing number of investors, corporations, and individuals seek to capture ESG and climate considerations in their decisions to help them create value and minimize risk. We help market practitioners cut through the complexities of ESG and climate data to make informed decisions about the impact on credit.

BRIAN CAHILL

Managing Director, Global Head of ESG, Moody’s Investors Service

Our Solutions

Moody’s is committed to helping market participants advance strategic resilience, responsible capitalism, and the greening of the economy.

Our offerings span credit, ESG, sustainable finance and climate risk solutions to provide meaningful performance measurements that help our customers identify risks and opportunities.

MOODY’S COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ESG INTEGRATION

Moody's ESG Solutions

Moody’s ESG Solutions Group is a business unit of Moody’s Corporation serving the growing global demand for ESG and climate insights.

Committed to forging a sustainable future, Moody’s ESG Solutions can help your organization to better understand ESG performance, assess climate and environmental risk exposure, strengthen sustainability action plans, and communicate with key stakeholders. The unrivalled breadth and depth of our solution suite makes us uniquely placed to fulfil even the broadest spectrum of ESG-related goals in risk management, equity and credit markets.

Our craft begins with superior-quality data and analytical rigor: by combining ESG expertise with best-in-class risk analysis, we deliver adaptable data and analytics solutions to companies, banks, insurers, governments, as well as asset managers and asset owners that meet individual needs on a global scale.

Companies & Organizations

Strategic & geopolitical resilience
Due diligence and compliance
Stakeholder relations
Operational resilience
Sustainability & regulatory reporting

Asset Managers & Owners

Meet fiduciary responsibilities
Strategic resilience
Understand non-traditional financial risk
Investment diversification
Regulatory reporting

Banks & Insurers

Strategic resilience
Understand non-traditional financial risk
Capital/solvency management
Regulatory reporting
Operational resilience

Moody’s ESG Solutions provides a holistic OFFERING

ESG Measures

Data, Scores & Benchmarks
Scores and Assessments for sovereigns
Regulatory Data Solutions
Positive / Negative Screening
Controversy Monitoring & Alerts
Normative Standard screening
Portfolio Review
Index and Structured Product Construction
Research

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Climate Solutions

Physical Risk Data & Scores
Transition Risk Data & Scores
Climate Governance
On-Demand Scoring
Portfolio Review
Regulatory Reporting Tools

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Sustainable Finance

SPOs for Green, Social & Sustainable Bonds
SPOs for Sustainability-Linked Bonds and Loans
Sustainability Ratings
Green Verifications

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Moody’s Investors Service is committed to increasing transparency around its systematic incorporation of material ESG considerations and climate change into its credit analysis.

ESG Integration into Credit Ratings

FOUR COMPONENTS TO MIS INTEGRATION OF ESG

Credit Ratings
& Research

ESG
Scores

ESG
Classification

Heat
Maps

ESG
Analytical
Tools

Environmental

Environmental
Classification

Environmental Heatmap

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Carbon Transition Assessment

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Social

Social
Classification

SocialHeatmap

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Governance

Governance
Classification

Corporate Governance
‍Assessment

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ESG Integration into Risk Management

Moody's Analytics delivers a comprehensive range of data-driven and forward-looking ESG-adjusted insights, macroeconomic forecasts and credit risk tools.

ESG and Impact

Integrated credit and operational risk analytic tools
Customizable ESG dashboards and heatmaps
ICAAP and stress testing scenarios run against selected ESG factors

Climate Change

Forward looking, quantitative metrics for EDF and LGD, bond evaluation and portfolio impacts
Integration of climate risk drivers within existing retail credit models
Global physical risk climate change scenarios measuring potential economic losses of climate related events / risks
Climate and natural disaster risk modeling serving the Property and Casualty (P&C) and reinsurance industries following our September 2021 acquisition of RMS.