In March 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced with great fanfare the creation of its Climate and ESG Task Force to proactively identify ESG-related misconduct. Three years later, the SEC quietly shuttered it. Why?
Hosts David Colvin and Karen Davis consider the reasons the agency may have elected to disband its task force and how it may approach ESG enforcement in the future. The pair also explore the legal challenges to the proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Rules.
