NYSE Euronext is Only Global Carbon-Neutral Exchange Operator for Third Year in a Row
13 Agosto 2013 - 3:30PM
Business Wire
NYSE Euronext today announced that it has achieved
carbon-neutral status for the third year in a row, again making it
the only global exchange operator to do so. This distinction was
accomplished through the implementation of company-wide energy
efficiency initiatives as well as the purchase of Renewable Energy
Certificates (RECs) and Carbon Offsets (COs).
“As the only carbon-neutral global exchange group, we lead by
example by running our business in an environmentally responsible
manner,” said Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext. “By
leveraging the power of our global platform, we work to encourage
collaborative responsibility among our NYSE Euronext community and
beyond to highlight best practices and solutions related to
sustainability.”
For 2012, NYSE Euronext completed company-wide energy efficiency
initiatives including the installation of new energy efficient
windows and variable frequency drives, the completion of steam
reheat modifications and the consolidation of its data centers.
The company also purchased Green-e certified RECs and Climate
Action Reserve (CAR) verified COs, which helped make NYSE Euronext
carbon-neutral for its 2012 Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions
for business travel. CodeGreen Solutions, a national
energy-efficiency and sustainability consulting firm, brokered NYSE
Euronext's REC and CO purchases, which were purchased from Green
Mountain Energy Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy
(NYSE: NRG). These purchases are made retroactively so that NYSE
Euronext can measure how much energy was used and purchase the
appropriate amount of certificates and offsets to match it. Each
REC represents the generation of one megawatt-hour of electricity
from 100-percent U.S. wind power, while the COs represent one
metric ton of carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions
reduced or avoided from a landfill gas recovery project in
Nebraska.
NYSE Euronext's green-power and carbon-balancing commitment
helped avoid an estimated 86,643 metric tons of CO2 greenhouse gas
emissions. Using calculations from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator, this
amount is equivalent to the CO2 emissions generated from burning
201,495 barrels of oil, the emissions from the use of electricity
at 12,971 average U.S. homes, or the annual greenhouse gas
emissions of 18,051 passenger vehicles. Click here to view an
infographic that illustrates these measures.
This distinction further demonstrates NYSE Euronext’s leadership
in and commitment to sustainability. In 2013, the company joined
the United Nations’ Sustainability Stock Exchanges (SSE)
Initiative, which aims to explore how exchanges can work together
with investors, regulators, and companies to enhance corporate
transparency on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance
(ESG) issues and encourage responsible long-term approaches to
investment. In 2012, NYSE Euronext was named to CDP’s S&P 500
Carbon Performance Leadership Index and received a Green Power
Leadership Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
For a number of years, the company has also been named to several
key sustainability indices, including CDP's S&P 500 Disclosure
Leadership Index, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good,
and is a member of the EPA’s Green Power Partnership.
For more information on NYSE Euronext’s initiatives related to
sustainability, please click here. For further details on all of
the company’s strategies and accomplishments related to corporate
responsibility, please read our 2012 Corporate Responsibility
Report available here.
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 MKT, 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. For more
information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
Media:NYSE EuronextKeara Everdell,
212-656-2159keverdell@nyx.com
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