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Tag: CLIMATE CHANGE

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The Biggest Stories of Gary Gensler’s Year One at the SEC

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Gary Gensler celebrated his first full year on the job as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the SEC had a business-friendly reputation under predecessor Jay Clayton, Gensler was billed as a reformer. In addition to deali...

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Amplifying the impact of greenhouse gases

The Climate Disclosure Rules Are Here! The Climate Disclosure Rules Are Here!

Amplifying the impact of greenhouse gases

The Securities and Exchange Commission this week finally proposed its rules for disclosing companies’ climate change-related risks. If enacted, registered companies would be required for the first time ever to report on their greenhouse gas...

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Flowers poking out of garden lattice: Sustainability presents complex work for PR Companies

Working with Big Oil is Bad PR for Edelman

Flowers poking out of garden lattice: Sustainability presents complex work for PR Companies

Activism to fight climate change most often gets associated with corporations that make – or take – things, such as energy companies and auto manufacturers. In reality, companies that contribute most directly to pollution rely on a latticew...

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Intelligize Report: SEC Steps Up Focus on Quality, Accuracy of Climate Risk Disclosures

Dark forest with a little fog representative of climate change disclosure

As regulatory authorities have ramped up scrutiny of corporations’ reporting on environmental, social and governance issues, they’re probing more deeply into the quality and accuracy of information contained in companies’ public disclosures...

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Five Cs for Companies to Watch in 2022

Vaccine seeker scanning horizon with binoculars

Meme stocks, the “gamification” of securities trading, and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to create chaos were just a few of the stories that ultimately defined 2021 in the corporate world. At least one of those doesn’t look l...

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