These comments make recommendations to the Treasury Department's Federal Insurance Office on how it can monitor, analyze, and address climate-related risks in the insurance industry.
Stephanie JonesNovember 15, 2021
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…
Michael PanfilNovember 4, 2021
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.
Michael PanfilOctober 29, 2021
This blog highlights eight recent actions by federal regulators to address climate risks to the U.S. financial system.
Michael PanfilOctober 25, 2021
This blog assesses themes from comments submitted by companies in response to the SEC's request for public input on climate risk disclosure, and identifies four elements essential to a robust rulemaking: (1) address key climate risks as well as emissions; (2) require specific and comparable line-item disclosures; (3) include climate…
Stephanie JonesAugust 4, 2021
This blog highlights findings from a report reviewing 10-K filings to the SEC in the context of the February 2021 extreme winter weather event and ensuing power outages in Texas.
Stephanie JonesJune 18, 2021
This report reviews 10-K filings to the SEC in the context of the February 2021 extreme winter weather event and ensuing power outages in Texas.
Giada ManninoJune 14, 2021
These comments make recommendations on the establishment of mandatory climate risk disclosure requirements that produce comparable, specific, and decision-useful information for investors, in response to the SEC's request for public input on climate disclosures.
Giada ManninoJune 14, 2021
These comments, in response to the SEC's request for public input on climate disclosures, focus on the science of climate attribution, detection, and prediction—the body of research drawing on multiple lines of evidence that describes the role of human activity in climate change. The goal of these comments is to…
Giada ManninoJune 11, 2021
