TISE launches green segment

Capital markets participants looking offshore can benefit from utilizing The International Stock Exchange (TISE), including its newly launched green market segment, TISE GREEN

The International Stock Exchange (TISE) is headquartered in Guernsey, Channel Islands, and has offices in each of the three British Crown dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. The business has been established since 1998, and today TISE is home to more than 2,700 listed securities valued at nearly US$400 billion.

THE RISE OF GREEN FINANCE

TISE has recently launched a new green market segment, TISE GREEN, to enhance the visibility of those investments that make a positive impact on the environment.

As I am writing, global leaders are meeting in Katowice, Poland, to discuss how to turn pledges made in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 into reality. The renowned naturalist and filmmaker, Sir David Attenborough, told this latest United Nations Conference of the global threat of climate change and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres highlighted the opportunities of the green economy by saying that “governments and investors need to bet on the green economy, not the grey”.

The focus on environmental sustainability in recent years has led to an established and growing sector of green finance. Indeed, there is an increasing pool of investors who are mandated either to only invest, or to invest a certain proportion of their assets, into investments which, alongside traditional financial return, provide positive environmental benefits.