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Podcast: Climate Now
Episode: Explaining the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rules
Description: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to standardize climate disclosures for publicly traded companies. What does that mean?On March 21, 2022 the SEC released a proposal for a new rule: publicly traded companies will have to provide disclosures about how the changing climate will affect their business, and how their business is affecting climate.This move would formalize a reporting system for climate-related disclosures that investors are increasingly demanding. Climate Now sat down with Nir Kaissar, a market economics columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and portfolio manager, to understand what these proposed disclosure requirements entail...