On March 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a comprehensive set of proposed rules mandating climate-related risk disclosures for public companies (Proposed Rule). For some the release marks...more
3/25/2022
/ Climate Change ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
ICFR ,
Proposed Rules ,
Risk Management ,
SASB ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
This paper attempts to provide a definition and context for the term, Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”), explain how and why it is used, demonstrate how investors are driving the proliferation of ESG reporting,...more
12/10/2020
/ Anti-Fraud Provisions ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Due Diligence ,
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
GAO ,
Human Rights ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Nasdaq ,
NYSE ,
Popular ,
Privately Held Corporations ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
SASB ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Sustainability ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) ,
Uniformity ,
United Nations
Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting sharp economic pullback has caused BlackRock to temporarily pause the prioritization of its ESG focus for issuers on climate change and related risk, Public Company boards...more
Making waves in the financial world on January 14th, Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, announced that BlackRock will be increasingly disposed to vote against board directors if...more
1/27/2020
/ Anti-Fraud Provisions ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Economic Growth ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Investment ,
MD&A Statements ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
SASB ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Sustainability