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• Antonio Otero
• São Paulo
• Brazil

Lawyer and entrepreneur, Law Firm

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SUSTAINABILITY STOCK EXCHANGE - A new market for the billion worth market of equilibrium

Due to technological and methodological advances, nowadays it is
perfectly feasible to attribute financial value to sustainability, creating
indexes that reflect it and which can be negotiated in a physical or virtual
environment such as a Stock Exchange.
Creating a sustainability index with financial value would allow us to have
a market for “equilibrium”, where proactive efforts would be compensated
by those negligent or indifferent, as occurs with carbon credits, a market in
which the responsible ones are credited and paid at the expenses of the
irresponsible ones.
This way, from a collective standpoint, in order to value equilibrium, the
price of irresponsibility shall be added to the cost of the practice, product
or service delivered and, at the same time, those who adopt clean
mechanisms shall be compensated at the irresponsible ones’ expenses.
Therefore, attributing financial value to the sustainability indexes and
inducing its negotiation in the market would mean giving solid value and
compensation to the most healthy and advanced entrepreneurial acts,
translated into credit or incentive advantages.