Euronext - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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Euronext’s Five ESG Impact Areas and the Sustainable Development Goals

3.2.5.2 Educate and engage with our local Community Euronext is committed to making a positive impact on our local and global communities, and Euronext’s employees play important roles in this context. Euronext contributes to its local communities through trainings, volunteerism, philanthropy and thought leadership. An important objective is to increase public understanding and appreciation of the role that Euronext plays as a financial infrastructure provider, and how it is a factor to achieve economic growth and increased welfare. Going forward, Euronext will focus community activities on two topics: Financial Literacy and Blue Finance. Activities related to these topics will be organised by each local exchange, under the management of the local CEO. In order to support these community activities, the Managing Board decided in December 2019 to set up a new governance committee at Group level. The main responsibility of the governance committee is to prioritise and decide on which initiatives proposed by the different local exchanges to support financially. Initiatives will receive support based on the committee’s assessment of the merits of the proposed activity. Financial Literacy As a financial infrastructure provider, Euronext is at the center of financial markets and communities. As a meeting point for a broad range of stakeholders, Euronext is committed to improving the broader understanding how financial institutions, including Euronext work together and their impacts on the world around them. Euronext strives to improve financial understanding far beyond its own Company seeking to reach employees at its broad community of companies, as well as teachers, students, and people in its communities. Euronext believes it can have a broader role to play. Euronext takes the opportunity to partner with international organizations in the field, namely by celebrating Global Money Week, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Financial Literacy Week, with events and bell ceremonies across all its locations. Blue Finance All Euronext countries are adjacent to the ocean, have a rich fishing and shipping tradition and have long seafaring traditions. Whilst climate change in general and the transition to a sustainable economy will play a central role in our product offering, Euronext wants to particularly address the threats to the oceans by taking on a leadership position in Blue Finance. There is increasing evidence that losses in the ocean’s natural capital resulting from unsustainable economic activity is eroding the resource base on which growth depends. Innovative financial solutions will be required to enhance ocean and coastal resilience and the financial sector has a role to play in order to mitigate this development. In 2020, community initiatives in Euronext’s different locations will focus on activities to support the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development as set out in Sustainable Development Goals 14 “Life Below Water”.

Volunteering Euronext’s employees volunteer for several organizations in all its European locations, Euronext helping to identify and select the themes and institutions with a wide offer of company sponsored initiatives, that most suit its employees wishes and abilities. Euronext’s employees give time to volunteering initiatives. In 2019 several initiatives were pursued locally, such as: n in Amsterdam: Euronext Amsterdam hosted numerous financial literacy and education tours about the role of the exchange and the functioning of capital markets. In total, 463 groups representing 9,700 persons took part in these tours in 2019; n in Brussels: classes on financial markets are regularly taught by Euronext Brussels teams to schools and associations including Capitant, UG/UA, Antwerp Management School, Gastcollege Ugent, Robert Smith Business School, VPO Opwijk; n in Dublin: employees volunteered in help at the Capuchin Day centre which helps fed those in need. Through our charity Committee we also raised awareness for cancer support and had a representative from the charity ARC Cancer support onsite to speak to our employees. We also had a representative from Movember (a cancer charity) come onsite from a breakfast talk to speak to employees about Men’s Cancer Awareness; n in Lisbon and Porto: some volunteers have visited secondary schools that had requested a brief introduction to the capital markets and how companies can grow using it as a tool for financing their businesses; n in London, a number of initiatives were run throughout 2019, as follows: n April: a Career Ready Student Day for Students fromWoodhouse College, n June: Futures For Kids Charity Fun Run and a sponsored Bike Ride (London employee) from London to Paris – Money raised went to Hestia, n July: Charity Cricket Match supporting Motor neuron disease; hosted 20 Poznan university Business & Economics Students for a talk on Euronext and capital markets; and Hestia Family Picnic for women and children in women’s refuges in Tower Hamlets, n September – Futures For Kids Five-A-Side Football Tournament; n in Oslo: Oslo Børs hosted a number of financial literacy events including tours of the exchange for university and business school students. Employees volunteered at the annual summer party in the Exchange’s park for homeless people and other disadvantaged groups in the Exchange’s neighbourhood; n in Paris: 16 presentations were organized, with the support of internal teams from all departments, for various high schools in and around Paris, for Universities (Université Catholique de Lille, master II Droit Financier Paris Sorbonne, master II Finance Paris Dauphine, Toulouse Business School, INSEEC) and for business schools (ESSCA) and Neoma (university of San Diego and Caroline of North’s university). Those presentations aimed at giving pedagogic explanations on the role of an exchange to young

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