Organizations Involved: Environmental Defense Fund
Source: Environmental Defense Fund
Abstract
Extreme weather caused by climate change is a threat to human health and safety, but it is also increasingly the cause of serious economic disruptions. And in the transition to a lower carbon economy, companies are navigating both opportunities and challenges.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted a rule to better equip investors to manage these risks. The rule will standardize public companies’ disclosures of climate-related financial risk information.
EDF joined Americans for Financial Reform, Sierra Club, and Sierra Club Foundation (represented by Earthjustice) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to support the SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule by filing an amicus curiae – or “friend of the court” – brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
