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- The GPW Group has published its 2021 integrated report
- The GPW Group presents the key financial and non-financial information in an integrated annual report for the fourth time
The Warsaw Stock Exchange Group (GPW Group) has published its integrated annual report which provides a comprehensive presentation of both the financial and non-financial performance of all Group companies in 2021.
The fourth edition of the report highlights the directions, goals and performance measures of the GPW Group’s ESG activities. The GPW Group presents sustainability factors and shows how the company’s strategy and value-building model influence its ESG activities and their results.
The report is a valuable repository of knowledge about the governance, social, climate change and environmental practices of the GPW Group. It provides a description of business successes and challenges, as well as a detailed path to value creation and other aspects of ESG governance. The document includes information on the GPW Group’s value creation strategy and model, corporate governance and ethics, social and environmental impact.
The backbone of the report is a description of the GPW Group’s ESG Strategy 2025 which outlines the directions of action in three pillars: environmental, social, and governance. To this end, the chapters of the Report describe strategic directions of the GPW Group’s ambitions for the implementation of the ESG Strategy.
“We have a long-standing commitment to responsible development, both as a company, as a Group and as an organiser of the financial instruments trading market promoting ESG activities. Our work in this area reached a watershed late last year with the adoption of the GPW Group’s ESG Strategy 2025. Care for the environment, particularly in the context of climate change, creating an inclusive, attractive working environment, and compliance with the principles of corporate governance, including the policy towards clients and suppliers, are the areas which we want to focus on even more actively in the coming years. Our greatest ambition for the environmental pillar is to reduce the GPW Group’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by the end of 2025 (compared to 2022) with the prospect of becoming emission-neutral by the end of 2030,” said Marek Dietl, President of the GPW Management Board.
In the next four years, the companies of the GPW Group will follow a roadmap of sustainable development based on strategic goals and ambitions including:
- transition to low-carbon economy;
- being a responsible and attractive employer which creates an inclusive working environment;
- bringing unique value to financial education and training of generations of investors;
- strengthening quality corporate governance practices, including the development of an ESG governance structure in the GPW Group.
The GPW Group’s Integrated Report 2021 includes the information recommended in the “ESG Reporting Guidelines. Manual for GPW-listed Companies” combined with the requirements of the latest GRI Standards and integrated reporting.
The ESG content of the integrated report was prepared with the participation of the GPW management team and the support of CSRinfo, a company specialising in ESG and sustainability. The independent experts ensured among others the correct reporting process and the selection of ESG indicators in line with the reporting principles according to the GPW guidelines and the GRI Standards, as well as the calculation of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the GPW Group’s activities.
The full version of the GPW Group’s Integrated Report 2021 is available on GPW’s website.
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange Group (GPW Group) operates trading platforms for shares, Treasury and corporate bonds, derivatives, electricity and gas, and provides indices and benchmarks including WIBOR and WIBID. The index agent FTSE Russell classifies the Polish capital market as a Developed Market since 2018. The markets operated by the GPW Group are the biggest in Central and Eastern Europe. For more information, visit www.gpw.pl
