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NYSE Euronext joined a United Nations initiative to promote corporate sustainability reporting and responsible investment. This makes NYSE Euronext the eighth stock exchange to join the initiative, which encourages exchanges to work with investors, regulators and companies to enhance transparency around environmental, social and governance issues. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged other exchanges to follow NYSE Euronext's lead in committing to sustainability. The announcement sets the stage for a discussion of sustainability-oriented listing guidelines at an upcoming meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges.
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methodology used to apply those principles within the framework. The purpose of
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audiences and for different sectors and types of organisations.
A small number of typographical errors have also been corrected.
The worked example was included as an example of how those principles are applied
in practice. A supplement will be available for the worked example ‘Wheels to Meals:
one year on’ which sets out how the organisation has developed its approach to SROI
after completing an evaluation against the initial forecast.
Supplements to the Guide will be prepared from time to time and form part of the
guidance available. At the date of this update a supplement on Materiality has been
released and is available from the SROI Network website.
January 2012
Acknowledgements
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