Euronext // 2021 Universal Registration Document

Empower Sustainable Finance

Relevant standards

Sustainable Development Goals As an Official Partner of the Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative (“SSE”) (1) , Euronext firmly commits to the UN’s “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and thereby to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”). The SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030. They define global sustainable development priorities and aspirations for 2030 and seek to mobilise global efforts around a common set of goals and targets. The SDGs call for worldwide action among governments, business and civil society to end poverty and create a life of dignity and opportunity for all, within the boundaries of the planet. They explicitly call on all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to solve sustainable development challenges. The SDGs have been agreed by all governments, yet their success relies heavily on action and collaboration by all actors. In order to make our ESG approach more transparent and to put it into a global context, we have identified where the 5 Euronext ESG impact areas set out in Paragraph 3, connect with the globally agreed SDG’s. To this effect we have selected the SDG’s that are most relevant per impact area. We believe that out of the 17 global goals, Euronext contributes more in particular to the 8 following SDGs:

Taxonomy Benchmark In addition, Euronext, as a Dutch listed company, has closely followed the criteria of the Transparency Benchmark 2020, initiated by the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate. The company did improve its overall score from 27 in 2017, to 59 in 2021. EU Taxonomy disclosure Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy (2) provides that certain companies should include in their non-financial information or consolidated non-financial statement information on how and to what extent their activities are associated with economic activities that qualify as environmentally sustainable; and (b) the proportion of their capital expenditure and the proportion of their operating expenditure. Based on our review of the Delegated acts (3) related to climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, we concluded that Euronext does not provide any products nor services that fall under the scope of those delegated acts as indicated in the chart below.

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Article 8 indicators

Eligible Non eligible

Turnover

0%

100%

CapEx

0%

100%

OpEx

0%

100%

(1) “SDG’s – What do they mean for stock exchanges?”, Sustainable Stock Exchanges – https://sseinitiative.org/ourwork/sdgs/ (2) Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088. (3) Commission Delegated act of 4 th June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives.

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