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Climate risk reporting: Why we need an SEC mandate
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:27:20
Publish Date: 2022-04-12 06:00:00
Description:

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to standardize climate disclosures for investors. What does that mean?

On March 21, 2022 the SEC released a proposal for a new rule: that publicly traded companies will have to provide disclosures about how the changing climate will affect their business, and how their business is affecting climate.

This move would formalize a reporting system for climate related-disclosures that investors are increasingly clamoring for. Climate Now sat down with Nir Kaissar, a market economics columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and portfolio manager, to understand what these proposed disclosure requirements entail, how they fit into the scope of the SEC's mandate, and what the impact of their adoption will be for businesses, investors, policymakers and the public.
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