PSE joins CDP as the first stock exchange capital markets signatory

The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) announced that it became the first stock exchange to join CDP as a Capital Markets Signatory. This move fortifies the Exchange’s commitment to advancing sustainable finance and corporate transparency.

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system for 25 years now. It helps investors, companies, and governments surface the information needed to make Earth-positive decisions. In 2025, 22,100 companies, representing two thirds of global market capitalization, disclosed through CDP.

Ramon S. Monzon, President and CEO of PSE, stated: “Our role as a capital market institution goes beyond facilitating investments. By joining CDP, we are signaling to our listed companies and investors that environmental transparency is essential to long-term value creation. We encourage all PSE-listed companies to disclose through CDP and demonstrate their commitment to sustainability.”

CDP can be a useful tool for listed corporates to identify how they can improve their systems, policies, and governance to be more sustainable. CDP’s disclosure platform integrates best practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place, with IFRS S2 as its foundational baseline. Hence, companies can use CDP to identify and report climate-related financial risks and opportunities. CDP’s disclosure platform also fully incorporates the Recommendations of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) with substantial or partial alignment with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the Recommendations of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). The questionnaire covers climate change, water security, forests, plastics, and ocean impacts.
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As a signatory, PSE is now one of over 540 global financial institutions, representing more than US$110 trillion in assets, collectively requesting companies around the world to disclose their environmental impacts through CDP.