At Nasdaq, we are committed to reimagining the capital markets for a better tomorrow, making them more sustainable and inclusive by advancing liquidity, transparency, and integrity throughout the global financial system.
Nasdaq’s approach to sustainability is focused both internally – by managing our businesses’ sustainability-related risks and opportunities and the corresponding impact we have as an organization across our own operations – and externally – by the impact we have on the world through the sustainability-related products and services that support our clients’ objectives, as well as the wider economic and societal impact across other key parts of our business and operations.
Our Corporate Sustainability Program
We deliver long-term value to stakeholders by solidifying our business resilience and driving sustainable growth through managing and reducing long-term risks and advancing sustainability practices across our organization.
Nasdaq 2024 Sustainability Report
Powering Resilient Growth
Browse Nasdaq’s 2024 Summary Sustainability Report for a quick overview of our workforce engagement, ethical governance, environmental stewardship, and client and community support efforts. Explore the 2024 Summary Sustainability Report ->
For additional details on our sustainability programs download our full 2024 Sustainability and TCFD Report. Download the Full 2024 Sustainability Report and TCFD Report ->
Enhancing Efficiency to Foster Resilient Growth
We are committed to minimizing our environmental footprint, meeting our net-zero goals, and solidifying our business against long-term climate risks. We aim to implement initiatives to decrease our GHG emissions, while ensuring transparency of our processes and programs that help us reach our long-term targets.
Empowering Our Workforce to Achieve Their Highest Potential
Our people are the driving force behind our success. Nasdaq’s ability to attract and retain top talent depends on fostering growth, engagement, and wellbeing. We invest in our employees by providing meaningful development opportunities, recognizing their contributions, and creating a supportive workplace.
Maintaining Governance Excellence to Power Long-Term Value
Our governance framework focuses on the interests of our shareholders. It is designed to promote governance transparency and ensure our Board has the necessary tools to review and evaluate our business operations and make decisions that are independent of management and in the best interests of our shareholders.
Making an Impact
The Purpose Initiative
Powering stronger economies, creating more equitable opportunities, and contributing to a more sustainable world.
Nasdaq Foundation
Equipping under-resourced communities with the financial knowledge to share in the wealth that markets create.
Inclusion & Belonging
Creating an environment where every employee can contribute meaningfully and feel a sense of belonging.
Purpose@Work
Identifying philanthropic and employee volunteer opportunities to help make a meaningful difference in our local communities and those around the world.
Our Sustainability Solutions & Services
At the epicenter of the capital markets and technology, Nasdaq is uniquely positioned to empower corporates, investors, and financial institutions with strategic solutions designed to help them achieve their sustainability objectives.
Corporate Solutions
Streamline sustainability and impact journeys
- Sustainability & Climate Advisory: Pairing consulting engagement with sustainability and climate expertise to help companies analyze, assess, and action best-practice strategy with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.
- Nasdaq Metrio™: A scalable sustainability reporting SaaS solution that enables corporates to collect, measure, disclose, and communicate investor-grade, auditable sustainability data efficiently across dozens of raters, rankers, and framework organizations to drive strategic outcomes and attract investors.
- Nasdaq Sustainable Lens®: Shaped by experts, powered by AI. Spend more time focused on strategic work by leveraging software to instantly answer questions, assess competitive positioning across any number of companies, monitor emerging trends, and ensure decision making is deeply evidence-based.
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- Sustainability & Climate Advisory: Pairing consulting engagement with sustainability and climate expertise to help companies analyze, assess, and action best-practice strategy with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.
- Nasdaq Metrio™: A scalable sustainability reporting SaaS solution that enables corporates to collect, measure, disclose, and communicate investor-grade, auditable sustainability data efficiently across dozens of raters, rankers, and framework organizations to drive strategic outcomes and attract investors.
- Nasdaq Sustainable Lens®: Shaped by experts, powered by AI. Spend more time focused on strategic work by leveraging software to instantly answer questions, assess competitive positioning across any number of companies, monitor emerging trends, and ensure decision making is deeply evidence-based.
Investor Solutions
Enable data-driven impact investment decisions
- Nasdaq eVestment - ESG Data in Asset Management: Unlock greater transparency for the global institutional market so investors can make better data-driven impact investment decisions.
- Sustainability Data Hub: Sustainability Data via Nasdaq Data Link offers investors and other stakeholders easy access to a wide range of comprehensive ESG data sets.
- Green Equity Indexes: Complete family of environmental indexes.
- 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.
- Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market: Raise debt capital for investment with clear benefits to the environment or social sustainability.
- Nasdaq Green Designations: Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.
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- Nasdaq eVestment - ESG Data in Asset Management: Unlock greater transparency for the global institutional market so investors can make better data-driven impact investment decisions.
- Sustainability Data Hub: Sustainability Data via Nasdaq Data Link offers investors and other stakeholders easy access to a wide range of comprehensive ESG data sets.
- Green Equity Indexes: Complete family of environmental indexes.
- 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.
- Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market: Raise debt capital for investment with clear benefits to the environment or social sustainability.
- Nasdaq Green Designations: Nasdaq Green Designations support equity issuers on Nasdaq European markets with their green business models and strategies.
Financial Institution Solutions
Capitalize end-to-end, mission-critical capabilities
- AxiomSL: In 2024, Nasdaq added multijurisdictional risk and financial regulatory reporting across liquidity, capital and credit, operations, trade, and transaction reporting and ESG to help firms adhere to regulatory requirements at scale while also improving transparency and overall capital, liquidity, and credit management.
- Carbon Registry and Trading: Trade, issue, settle, and take custody of carbon credits with Nasdaq's cloud-based technology custom build for carbon markets.
- Puro.earth: A crediting platform for engineered carbon removal.
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- AxiomSL: In 2024, Nasdaq added multijurisdictional risk and financial regulatory reporting across liquidity, capital and credit, operations, trade, and transaction reporting and ESG to help firms adhere to regulatory requirements at scale while also improving transparency and overall capital, liquidity, and credit management.
- Carbon Registry and Trading: Trade, issue, settle, and take custody of carbon credits with Nasdaq's cloud-based technology custom build for carbon markets.
- Puro.earth: A crediting platform for engineered carbon removal.