On March 6, 2024, two years after the issuance of a proposing release and following more than 24,000 comment letters and 4,500 unique letters submitted in response, by a vote of 3-2, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
3/14/2024
/ Climate Change ,
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Disclosure Requirements ,
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Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
On October 24, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (together, the “Agencies”) released their final Principles for Climate-Related...more
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic,...more
9/1/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Human Capital ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Public Safety ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Workplace Safety
The year 2020 was already predicted to be a year of heightened focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics for public companies—and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread protests galvanized by...more