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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 Ladin
November 4, 2021
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Strong SEC Climate Risk Disclosure Rules Are Good for Business, Investors

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…
Gabriel Malek
August 4, 2021
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Comments to SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure (ICRRL, Policy Integrity, EDF, Professors)

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.
Sarah Ladin, Michael Panfil, Jack Lienke, Alex Song, Stephanie Jones, Madison Condon, Jim Rossi and Michael Vandenbergh
June 14, 2021
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Comments to SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure (Sabin Center)

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…
Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz, Radley Horton, Romany Webb and Daniel Metzger
June 11, 2021