Stock exchanges can help markets mitigate risks associated with climate change, access growing opportunities and help align climate-related disclosures to global standards and best practices to ensure their markets are both efficient and resilient. This document provides a practical action plan and bespoke guidance on creating climate-resilient markets to help stock exchanges lead a transition to more climate-resilient markets using the various tools available to them.
The action plan highlights two streams of activities which focus either on changing the internal operations, disclosure and governance within the stock exchange, or on influencing the external market’s operations, disclosure and governance practices. It is is a companion document to the SSE’s Model Guidance on Climate Disclosure. Stock exchanges are encouraged to use them together as they work on making their markets more climate resilient.