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The California Air Resources Board held an almost four hour virtual public workshop on May 29 on California’s pending climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions disclosure laws. The stated purpose of the workshop was to...more
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) proposed targeted amendments to IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures standard, followed by similar changes from the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) to its...more
On April 23, 2025, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced that it is pausing its efforts to develop new and enhanced climate and diversity-related disclosure rules for public companies in Canada. This decision...more
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) will host a virtual public workshop on May 29, 2025, to begin formal discussions on developing the state's new Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Climate-Related Financial Risk...more
At the end of March, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released draft regulations for a proposed Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. If adopted, the regulations would require annual...more
On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defense of its Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors rules in the ongoing Eighth Circuit case Iowa v....more
On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rules it adopted last year that would have required publicly traded companies disclose climate-related risks and...more
In yet another example of the United States' federal pull back on climate change disclosure laws, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council on Monday withdrew a proposed rule titled “Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions...more
The Biden Administration withdrew a proposed climate change-inspired amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) one week before former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. According to a notice...more
WHAT: The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) announced this week that it is withdrawing two proposed rules. First, it withdrew a January 2024 proposed rule that sought to prohibit government contractors from...more
Companies in Australia will soon have to abide by a set of significant climate disclosures aligned with the International Sustainability Standards Board guidelines. These disclosures, which will impose significant compliance...more
ESG continues to be a hot topic for 2024 for investors and regulators alike. The specific concerns investors and regulators have – and what they expect to develop over the coming months – differ, however, across...more
On March 4, 2024, MethaneSat, a satellite developed by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund that will locate and quantify methane emissions from oil and gas operations, was launched into orbit. According to the...more
In response to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a class deviation postponing the proposed requirement to disclose greenhouse gas emissions. On November 14, 2022, the...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted much anticipated climate-related disclosure rules....more
On March 6, 2024, the SEC announced its long-awaited adoption of final rules regarding climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings (the “Climate Rules”). The SEC dialed back the more prescriptive...more
On March 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted (3-2) to adopt final rules entitled, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors (the “Final Climate Rules”). The Final...more
On the same day that the SEC issued its long-awaited rule on climate disclosures, ten states (West Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming, which are all...more
The SEC's five commissioners on March 6, 2024, will vote on whether to adopt long-awaited public company climate disclosure rules that would require registrants to report climate-related risks and metrics. In a Feb. 28, 2024,...more
ESG Continues to Extend its Reach into Global Supply Chains - In our latest edition of the ESG Business Insights alert series, we take a look at why Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer a matter of...more
In groundbreaking legislation, California continues to lead the nation in climate change regulation by enacting the bulk of the California Climate Accountability Package – an unprecedented climate disclosure mandate for...more
California is poised to become the first state to require large companies to disclose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from direct operations, supply chains and employees and report on climate-related financial risk and any...more
More than a year and a half after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its controversial and groundbreaking Proposed Rule for the disclosure of climate-related risks, its much-anticipated release of the Final...more
In Short - The Situation: The California legislature passed landmark climate bills that surpass emissions disclosure requirements of any other existing state law. The bills are branded as the nation's first comprehensive...more
On September 12, 2023, SEC Chairman Gensler testified before the Senate concerning a number of significant issues for the SEC. Among them was the SEC's still-pending rule on climate risk disclosures, which was first proposed...more