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    Corporate ESG Solutions

    Tell your ESG Story. Make ESG a competitive differentiator.

    Know where you stand in the ESG landscape, and how you can prioritize and execute your ESG initiatives while engaging stakeholders. 

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    Having a trusted partner who has achieved high ESG performance themselves is critical for long-term ESG success.

    Nasdaq helps companies of all ESG maturity levels through a unique combination of technology, tools, data, insights and capital market solutions. These offerings are backed by our own experience as a public company, applying and honing these practices over our tenure as a market leader.

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    LATEST ESG NEWS

    Nasdaq 2023 ESG & Climate Survey

    Nasdaq commissioned an independent study to see how decision-makers are incorporating ESG and sustainability into their corporate strategies. Uncover the key trends, insights and more.

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    LATEST ESG NEWS

    Nasdaq Acquires Metrio

    As part of its deepening commitment to serving stakeholders’ ESG needs, Nasdaq is to acquire Metrio, a Montreal-based provider of ESG monitoring, analytics and reporting services.

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    Prioritize ESG Efforts & Engage Stakeholders

    Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory Program

    Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory Program brings together data, insights, and a team of analysts to prioritize and guide your ESG efforts as well as engage stakeholders to secure ESG capital.  

    • Draw from Nasdaq’s extensive expertise for sector-specific recommendations. 

    • Know what metrics and strategies are most suited for your company at its current development phase.

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    Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory Program brings together data, insights, and a team of analysts to prioritize and guide your ESG efforts as well as engage stakeholders to secure ESG capital.  

    • Draw from Nasdaq’s extensive expertise for sector-specific recommendations. 

    • Know what metrics and strategies are most suited for your company at its current development phase.

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    Metrio, a Nasdaq company

    Metrio is an end-to-end sustainability reporting software that streamlines the way you collect, analyze, and share your ESG data.

    • One source of truth for all corporate sustainability data with custom dashboards to track KPIs. Collaborate across teams and suppliers more efficiently through a collection campaign & review process that sends task reminders, flags unusual variations, and generates an audit trail.

    • Automate the collection of verifiable and investor-grade ESG data across locations, sites, and business units. Align with mandatory disclosure regulations and aggregate data for rater and ranker questionnaires.

    • Ability to create custom KPIs and calculate carbon footprint from multiple sources and different measurement units and transform them into standard reporting metrics. Build and publish interactive reports in Metrio and on your own branded micro-site.

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    Metrio is an end-to-end sustainability reporting software that streamlines the way you collect, analyze, and share your ESG data.

    • One source of truth for all corporate sustainability data with custom dashboards to track KPIs. Collaborate across teams and suppliers more efficiently through a collection campaign & review process that sends task reminders, flags unusual variations, and generates an audit trail.

    • Automate the collection of verifiable and investor-grade ESG data across locations, sites, and business units. Align with mandatory disclosure regulations and aggregate data for rater and ranker questionnaires.

    • Ability to create custom KPIs and calculate carbon footprint from multiple sources and different measurement units and transform them into standard reporting metrics. Build and publish interactive reports in Metrio and on your own branded micro-site.

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    Build Operational Excellence in ESG

    Nasdaq OneReport

    Nasdaq OneReport is a software purpose-built for ESG disclosures, allowing you to populate any questionnaire, manage ESG data, and reduce time-consuming tasks.

    • Efficiently and accurately populate any ESG framework, standard, or rater and ranker questionnaire with a layered approval process, from a centralized database of auditable data.

    • Reduce duplication of efforts and time-consuming tasks by relying on Nasdaq’s built-in expert guidance on aligning your data to common ESG frameworks, raters, and standard organizations, as well as cross-referencing of common data points requested across multiple reporting formats.

    • Manage your third-party ESG scores with access to a library of questionnaires from raters and rankers, which maps to your ESG data from across other disclosures such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, and many more.

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    Nasdaq OneReport is a software purpose-built for ESG disclosures, allowing you to populate any questionnaire, manage ESG data, and reduce time-consuming tasks.

    • Efficiently and accurately populate any ESG framework, standard, or rater and ranker questionnaire with a layered approval process, from a centralized database of auditable data.

    • Reduce duplication of efforts and time-consuming tasks by relying on Nasdaq’s built-in expert guidance on aligning your data to common ESG frameworks, raters, and standard organizations, as well as cross-referencing of common data points requested across multiple reporting formats.

    • Manage your third-party ESG scores with access to a library of questionnaires from raters and rankers, which maps to your ESG data from across other disclosures such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, and many more.

    Explore our ESG Resource Library

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    Drive Governance Excellence

    Nasdaq Governance Solutions

    Nasdaq Governance Solutions ensures you have a high performing board, oversight of key corporate strategies such as ESG, and enables efficient collaboration. 

    • Evaluations and smart questionnaires drive board improvement, effectively. 

    • Nasdaq Boardvantage offers intuitive governance before, during, and after meetings via a secure and flexible platform. 

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    Nasdaq Governance Solutions ensures you have a high performing board, oversight of key corporate strategies such as ESG, and enables efficient collaboration. 

    • Evaluations and smart questionnaires drive board improvement, effectively. 

    • Nasdaq Boardvantage offers intuitive governance before, during, and after meetings via a secure and flexible platform. 

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    Access Sustainable Bond Data & Remove Carbon

    Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network and Puro.earth

    Solutions such as the Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network and Puro.earth support a range of outcomes from accessing sustainable bond data to carbon removal.

    • The Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.

    • Puro.earth operates a leading marketplace for carbon removal instruments that are verifiable and tradable through an open, online platform.

    • Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.

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    Solutions such as the Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network and Puro.earth support a range of outcomes from accessing sustainable bond data to carbon removal.

    • The Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.

    • Puro.earth operates a leading marketplace for carbon removal instruments that are verifiable and tradable through an open, online platform.

    • Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.

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    Audiences

    Nasdaq has solutions to help you both internally streamline and enhance ESG operations, as well as communicate these undertakings to stakeholders as key, competitive advantages, regardless of your institutional position.

    C-Suite Executive Management and Board Members

    Receive the insight of Nasdaq as an unbiased partner and trustworthy adviser, helping you optimize ESG impact and valuation premium. We help you home in on ESG initiatives with demonstrable business value to your company, and communicate the value this generates to multiple stakeholders. 

    Receive the insight of Nasdaq as an unbiased partner and trustworthy adviser, helping you optimize ESG impact and valuation premium. We help you home in on ESG initiatives with demonstrable business value to your company, and communicate the value this generates to multiple stakeholders. 

    Sustainability Officers

    Make sense of the dynamic ESG landscape including reporting organizations and frameworks to bridge the transition from traditional sustainability reporting to ESG reporting and address the numerous operational risks and challenges inherent in ESG data collection, approval, alignment and disclosure.  

     

    Make sense of the dynamic ESG landscape including reporting organizations and frameworks to bridge the transition from traditional sustainability reporting to ESG reporting and address the numerous operational risks and challenges inherent in ESG data collection, approval, alignment and disclosure.  

     

    Investor Relations Officers

    Tell your ESG story to investors, understand their needs and prioritize your strategic and engagement efforts. As you seek to secure ESG capital, identify and understand current and prospective ESG shareholders and capture ROI leveraging Nasdaq IR Insight. 

    Tell your ESG story to investors, understand their needs and prioritize your strategic and engagement efforts. As you seek to secure ESG capital, identify and understand current and prospective ESG shareholders and capture ROI leveraging Nasdaq IR Insight. 

    Governance Professionals

    Gain clearer oversight into ESG initiatives and functions and increase transparency around ESG decision-making while mitigating risk. Improve ability to align with ESG strategic goals and convey strategic successes, especially around stakeholder needs. 

     

    Gain clearer oversight into ESG initiatives and functions and increase transparency around ESG decision-making while mitigating risk. Improve ability to align with ESG strategic goals and convey strategic successes, especially around stakeholder needs. 

     

    See how you can change your business for the better.

    Contact us for an assessment of how Nasdaq can help you reach your ESG goals

    ESG Resource Library

    Learn how ESG is already being put into action by market leaders globally.

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    Case Study: Xylem

    See how Nasdaq’s advisory program helped Xylem in their mission to provide sustainable water resources globally. 

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    See how Nasdaq’s advisory program helped Xylem in their mission to provide sustainable water resources globally. 

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    Case Study: Etsy

    Learn how Nasdaq helped Etsy advance their company’s driving intention to “Keep Commerce Human,” and specifically communicate with investors over ESG priorities. 

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    Learn how Nasdaq helped Etsy advance their company’s driving intention to “Keep Commerce Human,” and specifically communicate with investors over ESG priorities. 

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    Community

    At Nasdaq, we are committed to catalyzing progress towards a more sustainable tomorrow. At the epicenter of the capital markets and technology, we’re uniquely positioned to lead the acceleration of ESG excellence by empowering our communities with strategic solutions that have measurable and lasting impact. 

    Learn more about Nasdaq’s ESG commitments
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    Nasdaq Foundation

    Diversifying entrepreneurship through grants support our mission.

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    Diversifying entrepreneurship through grants support our mission.

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    Nasdaq Goodworks

    Sponsoring support in local communities with 19,000+ hours donated to more than 1,400 charitable organizations.

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    Sponsoring support in local communities with 19,000+ hours donated to more than 1,400 charitable organizations.

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    Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center

    Empowering future entrepreneurs with resources and mentorship, focusing on women and underrepresented communities.

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    Empowering future entrepreneurs with resources and mentorship, focusing on women and underrepresented communities.

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    Nasdaq ESG Solutions

    Elevate Every Stage of Your ESG Strategy

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    Build a Better Business

    • Nasdaq OneReport: Manage your third-party ESG scores and mandatory disclosure. Populate framework, standard, or rater and ranker questionnaires with a layered approval process for added security.
    • Metrio, a Nasdaq Company: One source of truth for all your ESG data with automated data collection workflows, dashboards to track custom KPIs, metrics, calculations, and reporting capabilities.
    • ESG Data Hub: Connecting pioneering ESG data providers with the global investment community, providing ESG intelligence on otherwise unseen segments of global markets.
    • ESG Advisory Program: Pairing consulting engagement with ESG expertise to help companies analyze, assess and action best-practices ESG programs with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.

    TECHNOLOGY & SOLUTIONS

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    • Nasdaq OneReport: Manage your third-party ESG scores and mandatory disclosure. Populate framework, standard, or rater and ranker questionnaires with a layered approval process for added security.
    • Metrio, a Nasdaq Company: One source of truth for all your ESG data with automated data collection workflows, dashboards to track custom KPIs, metrics, calculations, and reporting capabilities.
    • ESG Data Hub: Connecting pioneering ESG data providers with the global investment community, providing ESG intelligence on otherwise unseen segments of global markets.
    • ESG Advisory Program: Pairing consulting engagement with ESG expertise to help companies analyze, assess and action best-practices ESG programs with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.
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    Enhance Engagement

    • eVestment's ESG Questionnaire: The new ESG questionnaire offers more robust quantitative and qualitative data, providing a deeper understanding of how ESG managers implement their approaches and what drives their decision making process.
    • ESG Footprint: Measure the global sustainability effect of a portfolio and individual securities. Through an intuitive platform, investors and managers have access to the real-life effects of each investment, along with alternatives that may better suit specific sustainability goals.

    DATA & INSIGHTS

    eVestment’s Next-Generation ESG Questionnaire ->
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    • eVestment's ESG Questionnaire: The new ESG questionnaire offers more robust quantitative and qualitative data, providing a deeper understanding of how ESG managers implement their approaches and what drives their decision making process.
    • ESG Footprint: Measure the global sustainability effect of a portfolio and individual securities. Through an intuitive platform, investors and managers have access to the real-life effects of each investment, along with alternatives that may better suit specific sustainability goals.
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    Leverage the Growth of the Capital Markets

    • Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network: Access green, social and sustainability bond data. The Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.
    • Listing of Sustainable Bonds: Raise debt capital for investment with clear benefits to the environment or social sustainability.
    • Green Equity Indexes: Complete family of environmental indexes.
    • Nasdaq Green Designations: Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.
    • Puro Earth: The carbon removal marketplace. Puro.earth operates a leading marketplace for carbon removal instruments that are verifiable and tradable through an open, online platform. 

    MARKETS & CAPITAL

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    Listing of Sustainable Bonds ->
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    • Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network: Access green, social and sustainability bond data. The Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.
    • Listing of Sustainable Bonds: Raise debt capital for investment with clear benefits to the environment or social sustainability.
    • Green Equity Indexes: Complete family of environmental indexes.
    • Nasdaq Green Designations: Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.
    • Puro Earth: The carbon removal marketplace. Puro.earth operates a leading marketplace for carbon removal instruments that are verifiable and tradable through an open, online platform. 
    Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network ->
    Listing of Sustainable Bonds ->
    Green Equity Indexes ->
    Nasdaq Nordic Green Designations ->
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    LEADING IN THE ERA OF IMPACT

    With Our Future-Forward Expertise, Tools and Technologies, Uncover and Empower True Purpose—Driving Real Impact and Creating Sustainable Markets and Resilient Businesses.

    Environmental, Social and Governance

    At Nasdaq, we are committed to catalyzing progress towards a more sustainable tomorrow.

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    At Nasdaq, we are committed to catalyzing progress towards a more sustainable tomorrow.

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    ESG Commitments

    We are devoted to advancing ESG initiatives and are continuously working to identify emerging ESG trends.

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    We are devoted to advancing ESG initiatives and are continuously working to identify emerging ESG trends.

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    ESG Resource Center

    By embedding ESG into corporate strategy, we strive to minimize the challenges of tomorrow while maximizing the opportunities of today.

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    By embedding ESG into corporate strategy, we strive to minimize the challenges of tomorrow while maximizing the opportunities of today.

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