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Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog

The New SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Will Drive Risk Mitigation and Value Creation

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) finalized its climate change disclosure rule on March 6, 2024, reducing the final disclosure obligations from the initial proposal after thousands of comments...more

Perkins Coie

So, What Is Sustainable Investing Anyway?

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Sustainable investing is a big and growing business. It is also widely misunderstood. Many of the predominant investment tools used to assess public company environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices have been...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Issues Landmark Climate-Related Disclosure Proposal

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued proposed rule amendments requiring climate disclosures by public companies. The SEC’s new climate disclosure rule will require all companies to report Scope 1 and Scope 2...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

ESG in 2021 So Far: An Update

The rapidly growing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters that marked 2020 continued to shape events for companies operating or based in the U.K. and Europe in 2021. Discussions of ESG are occurring at...more

BakerHostetler

ESG Disclosures, Congress, and the SEC

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The push on environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) disclosures has increased in the past several years, with these disclosures becoming a particular focus of the Biden Administration, the Securities and Exchange...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

House Passes ESG Disclosure Simplification Act of 2021

By a razor thin vote of 215 to 214, the House of Representatives passed the ESG Disclosure Simplification Act of 2021....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

SEC’s Regulatory Agenda Reflects Democratic Priorities

On Friday, June 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rolled out an ambitious rulemaking agenda, reflecting Chair Gary Gensler’s promises to prioritize environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues; respond to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ESG Disclosures: Guiding Principles and Best Practices for Investment Managers

Whether preparing or reviewing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosures for compliance with regulatory requirements in the EU, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States (US), or for alignment with ESG best...more

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