Calls Grow For Climate Disclosure Mandates From SEC, COVID Bill

Environmentalists and other climate advocates are stepping up their calls for the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to require public companies to disclose climate-related risks to their businesses, with one think tank also urging lawmakers to condition future coronavirus relief funds on climate disclosures and other restrictions. “Neither existing SEC rules nor voluntary disclosure regimes are eliciting climate risk information that is comparable, specific, and decision-useful,” argues a Feb. 11 report from New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI)...