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Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) recently joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative and signed the voluntary commitment to advancing sustainability performance, transparency, and governance practices in QSE market.
The Qatar Stock Exchange received a letter from the UN organizations responsible for the implementation of the SSE initiative, expressing their thanks to the QSE for making the voluntary commitment to advancing sustainability performance and transparency in the Qatari Market and for becoming a Partner Stock Exchange to the
It is noteworthy that the SSE initiative serves as an important platform to explore ways that will help exchanges to work together as well as investors and regulators, policy makers and companies to promote sustainability and responsible investment through a series of work streams and events.
The SSE initiative aims to explore how exchanges can enhance corporate transparency – and ultimately performance – on ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) issues and encourage sustainable investment.
Since it was inaugurated in 2009 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, many leading exchanges have joined the group of SSE Partner Exchanges. UNCTAD, the UN Global Compact, the PRI and UNEP-FI, as the core organizer of the SSE Initiative, also committed to supporting stock exchanges in this effort.
SSE Global Dialogues are regular events that are designed to analyze, promote and foster communication on stock exchanges’ sustainability-related activities and provide a unique, high-level platform to explore how the world’s exchanges can work together with investors, regulators and companies to create more sustainable capital markets.
