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Unpacking the Proposed SEC Rule on Climate Risk Disclosure

In this webinar EDF+ Business Project Manager Gabriel Malek moderated a conversation with Michael Panfil, Lead Counsel and Director of Climate Risk Strategies of EDF, Wendy Cromwell, Head of Sustainable Investing for Wellington Management, and Fitzann Reid, Deputy General Counsel with Engine No. 1, on key elements of the Securities…

Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil and OthersApril 7, 2022

Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation Report

Stakeholder Guide to the SEC’s Proposed Rule on Climate-Related Disclosure

This guide provides information on the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed rule on climate-related disclosure, including a summary of the proposed disclosure standards, an explanation of the importance of these disclosures for investors, and an overview of the public comment process.

Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil and Stephanie JonesApril 4, 2022

Blog/News Article Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation

Climate Change Creates Financial Risks. Investors Need to Know What Those Are.

This blog explains why the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed climate disclosure standards are long overdue and a critical step to ensuring investors have access to information about the investment risks faced from climate.

Michael Panfil and David VictorMarch 29, 2022

Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation Report

Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Mandatory Climate Risk Disclosure

As the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares a new climate risk disclosure rule, this report analyzes relevant case law and highlights best practices that the SEC can follow in estimating the rule’s economic impacts. With trade groups expected to challenge any new disclosure requirement by claiming that its costs…

Jack Lienke and Alex SongJanuary 19, 2022

Blog/News Article Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation

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

Blog/News Article Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation Risk Management

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 MalekAugust 4, 2021

Blog/News Article Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation Risk Management

What the SEC Can Do to Protect Investors, Companies, and People from Another Texas Power Crisis

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.

Gabriel Malek, David Victor, Stephanie Jones and Michael PanfilJune 18, 2021

Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation Report Risk Management

What Investors and the SEC Can Learn from the Texas Power Crises

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.

Stephanie Jones, Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil and David VictorJune 14, 2021

Agency Filing Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation

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 VandenberghJune 14, 2021

Agency Filing Financial Disclosure Financial Regulation

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 MetzgerJune 11, 2021

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