External Assessments

Ball has been included in S&P Global’s 2023 Sustainability Yearbook. The report is built on the bedrock principles of transparency, reliability, and comparability. This year, only 708 top performing companies made it into the Yearbook, with Ball being one of them

Ball has participated in CDP assessments since 2007. A group of 525 investors with $96 trillion in assets uses CDP to identify companies that report reliable, comprehensive information about climate change risks and opportunities.For the fifth year in a row, Ball received an A- in CDP’s Climate Change Questionnaire, which recognizes the company’s commitment to maintaining best practices in corporate climate citizenship through its net zero carbon emissions commitment, renewable electricity coverage and ongoing assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities. Ball has consistently earned As in both governance and emissions reduction initiatives.Visit our downloads page to view Ball's Climate Change response.

MSCI ESG Research provides MSCI ESG Ratings on global public and a few private companies on a scale of AAA (leader) to CCC (laggard), according to exposure to industry-specific ESG risks and the ability to manage those risks relative to peers. As of September 2024, Ball Corporation received an MSCI ESG Rating of AAA.

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Euronext, the leading Pan-European marketplace, and Vigeo Eiris, a leading European expert in assessing responsible performance, launched a range of socially responsible investment indices in 2013. As of December 2021, Ball has been selected as a member of the Euronext Vigeo World 120 and US 50 indices. These comprise the 120 most advanced companies globally and the 50 most advanced U.S. companies, in the areas of Environmental, Social and Governance performance.

Ball has been selected for inclusion in the Calvert Responsible Index Series, covering the Calvert U.S. Large Cap Core Responsible Index (CALCOR), the Calvert U.S. Large Cap Growth Responsible Index (CALGRO) and the Calvert U.S. Large Cap Value Responsible Index (CALVAL). All three indices represent a portfolio of large capitalization stocks listed on U.S. stock exchanges that meet Calvert’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria for index inclusion.

As part of ISS ESG research's Corporate Rating, an assessment of more than 100 social and environmental criteria, Ball qualifies as one of their “Prime” companies. Among other categories, Ball achieved excellent scores around eco-efficiency. Of all containers and packaging companies rated by ISS oekom, only three, including Ball, have achieved Prime status.

EcoVadis awarded Ball Corporation a silver medal in 2023, recognizing its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) achievements. EcoVadis seeks to drive sustainability in global supply chains, providing an external assessment of practices in areas covering environment, ethics, sustainable procurement, labor and human rights.

As of May 2023, Ball received an ESG Risk Rating of 12.1 from Sustainalytics and was assessed to be at low risk of experiencing material financial impacts from ESG factors. Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings measure a company’s exposure to industry-specific material ESG risks and how well a company is managing those risks. Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings provide a quantitative measure of unmanaged ESG risk and distinguish between five levels of risk: negligible, low, medium, high and severe. Learn more about the ESG Risk Ratings here.

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The Human Rights Campaign’s annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) is responsible for establishing the benchmark for best practices regarding equity in the workplace. As part of this rating, Ball was named one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality” and an employer of choice for the LGBTQ+ workforce in 2022. Since 2002, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has published the CEI report to publicly identify the top-ranking companies for LGBTQ+ workers and to guide wide-scale adoption of pro-LGBTQ+ practices.

Ball was recognized as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, further demonstrating its commitment to sustainability leadership in the region. This is the fifth year Ball has earned this recognition.

As of February 2024, Ball has been listed numer 26 on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies list. To make the list, the seventh annual ranking, companies were scored on a variety of environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, measures. Barron’s worked with Calvert Research and Management, a leader in responsible investing, to rank the companies.