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Mandating Disclosure of Climate-Related Financial Risk (Blog)

This blog outlines reasons for supporting the SEC’s plan to propose a rule requiring standardized climate risk disclosures and provides several recommendations for how the SEC should build its institutional knowledge as it designs and enforces a climate risk disclosure regime, drawing on a forthcoming paper in the N.Y.U. Journal…

Alex Song, Jack Lienke, Madison Condon, Michael Panfil and Sarah LadinNovember 4, 2021

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Extreme Weather Is a Climate Change Inevitability; Our Responses Shouldn’t Worsen the Problem

This opinion piece argues that all policy, regulatory, and legislative proposals for climate resilience should take into account the greenhouse gas emissions they create, in order to avoid maladaptation.

Michael Panfil and Romany WebbNovember 4, 2021

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Safeguarding Americans’ Financial Futures From Climate Change

This blog explains the importance of a rule proposed by the Department of Labor that would make clear that retirement plan managers can consider climate risks when making investment and proxy voting decisions.

Gabriel Malek and Michael PanfilOctober 29, 2021

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Climate Risk in the Electricity Sector: Legal Obligations to Advance Climate Resilience Planning by Electric Utilities

This article finds that proactive climate resilience planning by electric utilities is required under public utility law and tort law. A previous version was released as a report in December 2020.

Romany Webb, Michael Panfil and Sarah LadinOctober 29, 2021

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Washington and Wall Street Must Act Now to Protect Americans’ Financial Futures From Unfolding Climate Change Harms

This blog highlights eight recent actions by federal regulators to address climate risks to the U.S. financial system.

Michael Panfil, Stephanie Jones and Gabriel MalekOctober 25, 2021

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Testimony of Michael Panfil Before the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change

Michael Panfil testified in a Hearing on Climate Resilience of Transportation and Electric Infrastructure before the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change. As demonstrated in these remarks, well-designed climate resilience planning is feasible using data and tools available today. The same is true with respect to existing…

Michael PanfilOctober 4, 2021

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Testimony of Romany Webb Before the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change

Romany Webb testified in a Hearing on Climate Resilience of Transportation and Electric Infrastructure before the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, making two key points: First, climate change poses serious risks to the electricity system, which are fundamentally different from other risks, including ordinary weather-related risks,…

Romany WebbOctober 4, 2021

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Supplemental Comments on FERC’s Technical Conference on Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability

These post-technical conference comments provide further recommendations on how FERC can support effective climate resilience planning throughout the energy system, supplementing an earlier set of pre-technical conference comments.

Romany Webb, Michael Panfil, Stephanie Jones, Justin Gundlach and Sarah LadinSeptember 27, 2021

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Comments to Michigan PSC on Electric Utility Planning Processes to Prepare for Climate Change

These comments to the Michigan PSC recommend that it require electric utilities under its jurisdiction to regularly assess their climate-related vulnerabilities and identify measures to make their systems resilient to climate impacts.

Romany Webb, Justin Gundlach and Sarah LadinSeptember 24, 2021

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Climate Resilience and Private Law’s Duty to Adapt

This article presents a historical, evidentiary, and normative case for a private tort against public utilities for failure to adjust operational and planning decisions to new conditions brought about by climate change.

Jim Rossi and Michael PanfilAugust 23, 2021

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