![COP28: Exchanges and climate action: financing the net zero transition](/sites/sseinitiative/files/styles/event/public/events/cop28exchangesandclimateactionfinancingthenetzerotransition.jpg?itok=ZrOdZfkB)
Date: Monday, 4 December 2023
Time: 9:00 -10:00 (local time, subject to change)
Organizers: UN SSE, UNCTAD
Location: B7 Building 88, room 39 on the 1st floor (not ground floor) "Trade House", Blue Zone, Expo City, Dubai
Stock exchanges can play a crucial role in the innovation of financial solutions that bolster climate-positive initiatives and the promotion of climate action among companies. Through the development of climate-aligned products, services, and rules, exchanges hold a pivotal role in enhancing the climate resilience of their markets. Exchanges also assume significant importance in facilitating the adoption of new climate-aligned standards and the dissemination of climate-related information across financial markets. Exchanges can contribute to the transformation of markets towards a net-zero future by implementing guidelines, benchmarks, and educational initiatives.
Key topics to be addressed include the role of exchanges in:
- Helping align climate-related disclosures to global standards, including providing bespoke guidance and training to their issuers.
- Innovating new climate-aligned products and services such as Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs).
- Ensuring green finance products (like green bonds) better serve the financing needs of emerging markets.
- Supporting the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero and using their market influence to accelerate the transition to net zero emission economies.
This session will be live-streamed. You can click here to watch the live session.
You can download the map of the venue here.
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Once in the Building 88, head to the first floor and take left.
![Building 88 map](/sites/sseinitiative/files/inline-images/map.jpg)