November 2023 News Highlights
This month includes news from ADX, Bahrain Bourse, Cambodia Securities Exchange, HKEX, LuxSE, and more.
Monthly news highlights are compiled by the SSE to give an overview of the capital markets' sustainability news from that month.
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COP 28: SSE technical panel discusses next steps for climate through regulation, standardisation and capacity building
4 Dec 2023, Dubai, UAE
COP28: SSE Contributes to Oxford Master Class on Governing a Transition to Net Zero
4 December 2023
SSE Academy Head Dr. Tiffany Grabski was invited to present at the Oxford Net Zero Master Class on Net Zero Policy and Regulation. Dr. Grabski spoke about the role of capital markets in building capacity to facilitate the transition to a zero-emissions economy, highlighting the importance of convergence of standards with built-in flexibility for local adaptation.
COP28: Dubai Financial Markets (DFM) hosts SSE Panel on climate disclosure standards
(5 Dec 2023, Dubai, UAE) Dubai Financial Markets (DFM) hosted a UN Global Compact SDG Investment Forum as a side event to the United Nations climate change conference (COP28) together with the UN SSE initiative and UN Global Compact.
SSE, IFC, UN Women launch Asian and African benchmarks on gender equality in corporate leadership
On 13 December 2023, the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (UN SSE) in partnership with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and UN Women, launched two reports on gender equality in corporate leadership as part of the SSE’s Q4 2023 Quarterly Webinars:
FEAS and SSE launch Arabic translation of sustainability guidance
(19 December 2023) As part of the Exchange of Letters signed by the UN SSE and the Federation of Euro-Asian Exchanges (FEAS) at the UNCTAD World Investment Forum, the two organizations published their first joint-project.