21 Royal Gold, Inc. 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Report About Royal Gold Governance ESG Stewardship Our People Our Operators and Communities Appendices S&P Corporate Sustainability Assessment Score We have seen improvements in our S&P Corporate Sustainability Assessment score over time. Royal Gold has consistently scored well on governance and economic aspects, and we continue to make improvements on our public reporting of environmental metrics and GHG emission statistics. Scores are on a scale from 0 to 100 (where 100 is the best). Sustainalytics Royal Gold continues to improve its Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating year over year, with a score of 9.1 in 2022. We maintained our ESG Risk Rating in 2022, and were third out of 123 companies in the Precious Metals Group (with a score of 1 indicating the lowest risk). We ranked second out of 96 for the Gold sub-industry and 128th among the 14,860 companies in the Sustainalytics database and received Sustainalytics’ “ESG industry top rated” designation. MSCI We continued to maintain our MSCI “AA” ESG Rating in 2022. This places us in the top quartile of all companies graded. The MSCI ESG Rating distribution ranges from CCC (lowest) to AAA (highest). Royal Gold has maintained its AA rating due to our strong governance practices and transparency. ISS Corporate Royal Gold continues to score the highest possible score, 1, for our Governance practices. In 2022, we made significant improvements to both our Environment and Social scores. Our improvements can be attributed to increased disclosure and enhanced engagement with ISS on the applicability of metrics. Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index Royal Gold has participated in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index survey for the past two years. This Index is a modified market capitalization-weighted index that aims to track the performance of public companies committed to transparency in gender-data reporting. This index focuses on gender matters and not ESG broadly. While there are areas for improvement, Royal Gold has made progress on its internal diversity and inclusion practices and, as a result, we have seen an improvement in our 2022 score. Scores are on a scale of 0% to 100% (with 100% being the best). We ranked second out of 96 for the Gold sub- industry and 128th among the 14,860 companies in the Sustainalytics database and received Sustainalytics’ “ESG industry top rated” designation.