Opening remarks and an overview of the agenda were provided by the SSE. The SSE team welcomed four new partner exchanges: Honduras Stock Exchange – Bolsa Centroamericana de Valores (BCV), Iran Fara Bourse Securities Exchange, Kyrgyz Stock Exchange, and Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB). There are now 108 SSE Partner Exchanges.

UNEP FI speaker, Jesica Andrews, explained what is the Race to Zero (RtZ), and mentioned how many organizations are involved. She also explained RtZ partner initiatives and how a business can join one of them. More details are in the slides below. She also indicated three useful resources to know more about the RtZ: 

• Sectoral Pathways To Net Zero Emissions
• The Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting
• Foundations for Science-based Net-zero Target Setting in the Corporate Sector

We also had the participation of Meryam Omi and Eileen Wang giving more details on Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and COP26. They explained that GFANZ has the objective of broadening Race to Zero’s existing finance sector campaign, raise ambitions, coordinate commitments, support technical collaboration, and showcasing the collective efforts and achievements of the sector.

In both calls, we had speakers from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) sharing their experiences as the first exchanges committed to net-zero. Exchanges should focus on appropriate goals and increase the engagement to net zero in their markets. 

Slides

• Net Zero – SSE Q3 Webinar 2021
• Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)
• Race to Zero – UNEP FI