NYSE Euronext & the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Commemorate Earth Day with Inaugural Green Summit at the New Yo...
22 Aprile 2010 - 11:55PM
Business Wire
NYSE Euronext and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute
today hosted the inaugural Green Summit at the New York Stock
Exchange in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The
event featured leaders from the Environmental Protection Agency,
Department of Energy, and the corporate and academic sectors who
explored ways to attain environmental sustainability while growing
business and the economy through green business. A re-play of the
webcast of the Green Summit is available at
http://www.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/NYSE20100422.
Additionally, several NYSE-listed companies participated in the
Green Summit and showcased their “green” technologies inside and
outside the New York Stock Exchange:
- United Parcel Service,
Inc./hybrid electric package delivery car (NYSE: UPS)
- Ford Motor Company (NYSE:
F)/electric and hybrid vehicles
- Hewlett Packard Co./climate wall
(NYSE: HPQ)
- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:
WM)/reversible vending machines
“Today’s Green Summit at the NYSE marking the 40th anniversary
of Earth Day was a great success,” said Duncan Niederauer, CEO,
NYSE Euronext. “Together with the Yale Chief Executive Leadership
Institute and several of our listed companies, we were able to
bring together some of the country’s most insightful minds to
exchange ideas and expertise on how to grow businesses, communities
and the economy while being eco-friendly. The Green Summit and all
Earth Day events globally serve as a great reminder of the need to
address the issues that impact our planet and the opportunities to
make our world even better in the future.”
“Yale is delighted to join forces with the NYSE Euronext to
unify the cutting edge work from academia with the pioneering
triumphs of industry,” said Yale Senior Associate Dean and
conference organizer Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. “This forum brought
together Nobel Prize winning prominence, scientific expertise,
policy innovation, inspiring corporate initiatives for a
celebration of how far the spirit of Earth Day has come these past
forty years. Rather than finger-pointing between institutions and
communities, we now see hands locked in mutual progress towards
common objectives.”
The Green Summit was co-sponsored by Deloitte; The Dow Chemical
Company (NYSE: DOW); Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ); PepsiCo
(NYSE: PEP); Office Depot (NYSE: ODP); United Parcel Service, Inc.
(NYSE: UPS); The Mother Nature Network; Sesame Workshop; The Body
Shop and CNBC.
In celebration of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, co-sponsors of
the Green Summit rang The Opening Bell; the Closing Bell was rung
by Matt Petersen, President and CEO of Global Green USA, the
American affiliate of President Gorbachev's, Green Cross
international joined by actor Anthony Mackie, who recently starred
in the Oscar-winning movie, The Hurt Locker and arctic explorer and
photographer Sebastian Copeland.
The NYSE and Yale Green Summit offered an opportunity for
NYSE-listed issuers and others to come together to garner unique
insights and further their “green” initiatives. The summit
underscored NYSE Euronext’s commitment to creating thought
leadership forums where our community of executives can exchange
innovative ideas and network.
NYSE Euronext was recently recognized by Newsweek magazine as
one of the Greenest Big Companies in America. In the September 21,
2009 issue, NYSE Euronext ranked #177 out of 500 companies rated
and was the only stock exchange to make the list.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial
markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The
company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities,
futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With
approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured
Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock
Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca –
represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most
liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates
NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and
the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of
trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology,
connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE
Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the
only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
About the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute was founded in
1989 to provide original research on top leadership and lively,
current educational forums through peer-driven learning for
accomplished leaders across a range of sectors. For more
information, please visit: http://www.ceoleadership.org/.
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