The Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE) has announced it has joined the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative as a Partner Exchange.
The platform aims to provide an effective peer-to-peer dialogue among global exchanges, encouraging sustainable investment, while also enhancing corporate transparency on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.
The SSE initiative was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York in 2009 and now has 24 Partner Exchanges around the world. It has provided stock exchanges with an opportunity to play an important leadership role in promoting sustainable business practices.
Speaking after the RSE was admitted to the initiative yesterday in New York during a conference themed ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ designed to bring together capital market leaders to discuss the role they can play in supporting the achievement of those goals, Celestin Rwabukumba, the CEO of the RSE said in order to achieve the goals, planning collectively and sustainably was important.
“What we do today will shape our future if we want to survive. Given our role at the heart of global financial markets, we are in a unique and privileged position to promote sustainability and corporate responsibility,” he said.
He added that ultimately, it is about supporting stable global long-term economic growth.
“We are therefore delighted to join the UN SSE initiative as a Partner Exchange and we look forward to collaborating on important sustainability themes with the UN and peer exchanges around the world.”
