Caption: The definition for each screen.
| SCREEN | DEFINITION |
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| Civilian firearms | All companies classified as “Producer”. All companies classified as “Retailer” that earn 5% or more in revenue, or more than $20 million in revenue, from civilian firearms-related products. |
| Controversial weapons | All companies with any tie to Controversial Weapons (cluster munitions, landmines, depleted uranium weapons, biological/chemical weapons, blinding lasers, non-detectable fragments and incendiary weapons), as defined by the methodology of the MSCI Ex-Controversial Weapons Indexes. |
| Oil sands | All companies deriving greater than 5% revenue from oil sands extraction (either reported or estimated), which own oil sands reserves and disclose evidence of deriving revenue from oil sands extraction. Companies that derive revenue from non-extraction activities (e.g. exploration, surveying, processing, refining) or intra-company sales are not excluded. Additionally, companies that own oil sands reserves with no associated revenue are also not excluded. |
| Thermal coal | All companies deriving 5% or more revenue (either reported or estimated) from the mining of thermal coal (including lignite, bituminous, anthracite and steam coal) and its sale to external parties. It excludes: revenue from metallurgical coal; coal mined for internal power generation (e.g. in the case of vertically integrated power producers); intra-company sales of mined thermal coal; and revenue from coal trading. All companies deriving 5% or more revenue (either reported or estimated) from the thermal coal based power generation. |
| Tobacco | All companies classified as “Producer” or “Licensor." All companies classified as “Ownership by a Tobacco Company” or “Ownership of a Tobacco Company". All companies classified as “Distributor”, “Retailer”, and “Supplier” that earn 15% or more in revenue from tobacco-related products. |
