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on Sustainability andClimateMSCI’s tools and services
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MSCI’s Tools and Services
for Companies

Introduction

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How do MSCI ESG Ratings work?

Measure, monitor and manage your company’ssustainability risks and opportunities
To effectively access the growing market of sustainability and climate finance, companies need robust assessments to demonstrate their progress and performance.
They need insights to craft a compelling narrative that showcase their achievements and ambitions in tackling sustainability issues. Whether the company is seeking
to access capital from investors and lenders, or considering corporate liquidity events, reliable and timely data is required to track progress, report results, and compare
your company’s performance with industry peers.
With more than four decades of experience, MSCI ESG Research offers solutions designed to enhance decision-making. You can use our sustainability and climate
tools and services to help your company to efficiently measure performance and connect with the financial ecosystem. For companies in search of value, our expertisein providing robust tools and services can help provide the clarity needed to navigate your sustainability journey.
We offer tools and services designed to help you to:

Benchmarksustainability andclimate disclosures andperformance versus
peers and industry bestpractices

Engage with the MSCIESG Research team about
our publicly available
models and ratings togain deeper insight into
our data

Showcase yoursustainability profile withinvestors throughProvisional ESG Ratingsor Second-Party
Opinions

Deepen yourunderstanding of Carbon
Markets

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How we can help
Benchmarking and industry bestpractices

Engaging with industry experts

Assessing sustainability
performance

MSCI Corporate Sustainability Insights (CSI)
Measure and compare sustainability and climate
data about your company against its peers, while
identifying potential disclosure gaps throughintuitive charts, graphs, and maps. Gain accessto MSCI ESG Research’s database of ESG Ratingsand climate data across more than 10,000 publiccompanies*. MSCI ESG Research is one of thelargest providers of ESG data and analysis to publiccompanies.

MSCI Corporate Sustainability Insights
Plus (CSI Plus)
Deepen your understanding of the MSCI ESG
Ratings methodology and process and gain
insights when you need them. This service
includes the data insights of the CSI solution as
well as provides opportunities to communicate
with MSCI ESG Research to help you enhanceyour understanding of the key drivers behind ESG
Ratings and your company’s positioning against
industry best practices.

MSCI Provisional ESG Ratings
Provisional ESG Ratings are intended to help
privately held companies and non-rated issuers
understand how they would be assessed by MSCIESG Research and assigned an MSCI ESG Rating
if they were part of MSCI’s standard coverage
universe. Provisional ESG Ratings can help withinternal baselining, marketing purposes or support
corporate activities such as IPOs, spin-offs or
private sales. An assessment could be beneficial tonon-rated companies aspiring to obtain information
to help their efforts to establish credibility andattract investors.

* Source MSCI’s Quarterly Investor Deck, page 42

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Supporting corporate climate commitments

Sustainable corporate financing

MSCI Carbon Markets
Use our carbon markets data and analytics to bolster all aspects of yourclimate strategy. Our solution is designed to harness the potential of carbon
markets, offering carbon credit integrity and risk assessment, price discovery,
forecasting and key policy tracking. We enable you to ensure cost-effective
credit procurement, simplify efforts to complete disclosure requirements andconnect your company’s carbon credit strategies with your company’s broader
sustainability goals.

Sustainability-linked financing
For companies seeking to borrow funds — and financial institutions aiming
to lend them — successfully tapping into the sustainability-linked financing
market can hinge on the quality of their sustainability data. Corporate issuers
can license MSCI ESG Ratings and the underlying data to help them to promotea debt offering or utilize the data as a key performance indicator (KPI) for asustainability-linked loan.
Second-Party Opinions (SPOs)
Assess the alignment of your green, social, or sustainable debt financing
framework or related transactions through MSCI ESG Research’s Second-Party
Opinion solution, which considers alignment with International Capital Market
Association (ICMA) or Loan Market Association (LMA) standards as well as the
MSCI Labeled Bond and Loan Assessment Methodology.

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How do MSCI ESG Ratings work?
We use an objective, rules-based methodology to identify
industry leaders and laggards. We rate companies on a‘AAA to CCC’ scale according to their exposure to ESG risks
and how well they manage those risks relative to peers.
We rate over 17,500 companies (issuers including
subsidiaries).*
We collect thousands of data points for each company
which make up the underlying data of key issues. We havedetermined a handful of key issues to be financially relevant
for each industry.
MSCI ESG Ratings are designed to help identify ESG risks
and opportunities.

* Source MSCI’s Quarterly Investor Deck, page 42

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About MSCI ESG Research
Products and Services
MSCI ESG Research products and services are provided by MSCI ESG
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to companies worldwide. ESG ratings, data and analysis from MSCI ESG
Research LLC. are also used in the construction of the MSCI ESG Indexes.
MSCI ESG Research LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser under theInvestment Advisers Act of 1940 and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

About MSCI Inc.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services forthe global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research,data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clientsto understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build
more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency acrossthe investment process.
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