Episode #42 — Climate & Sustainability-Related Disclosures
Many of you have seen a lot of buzz about the SEC’s new rulings for public companies. These new rules require public companies to list their climate disclosures on registration statements, financial statements, and period reports. These rules will affect business owners, CFOs, and accountants – particularly audit folks – among many more.
Show Notes
Many of you have seen a lot of buzz about the SEC’s new rulings for public companies. These new rules require public companies to list their climate disclosures on registration statements, financial statements, and period reports. These rules will affect business owners, CFOs, and accountants – particularly audit folks – among many more.
Your guest this week? It’s me. These changes are coming folks, and they’re coming quick! We have to start looking into this and taking action now. I’m diving deeper into all the interesting sustainability-related disclosures in the pipelines both on a federal and state level.
Join me this week as I’m giving you an overview of what these rules are and what they’re going to mean for you and your business, or those businesses you work with. Hear why you need to start preparing for these rules and having these conversations now, and how to start cleaning up any risks or things you don’t like ahead of these regulations.
- The three different scopes that climate emissions come in.
- How public and private companies will be affected by these changes.
- The similar rules the SEC may implement on human capital disclosures.
- Some examples of what you can start doing to prepare your business for these rule changes.
- What businesses in California and businesses who work with those in California need to know about these changes.
- How these changes are going to affect the work of accountants and auditors.
- Some of the changes that will hit both public and private companies.
What You'll Learn
Links Mentioned
- Click here to hear more about what Sensiba Center for Sustainability are doing and access the 2022 Sustainability and Business report.
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- CA State Bill 449 – Climate-related financial risk
- CA State Bill 260 – Youth offender parole hearings
- Pending California Legislation Could Build Upon—Or Conflict With—Forthcoming SEC Disclosure Rules – great recap article on SB 260
- SEC Fact Sheet
- SEC Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures
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