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  • Gensler to depart SEC

    22 November 2024

  • SEC stumbles into battleground of climate materiality

    12 March 2024

    Letting companies decide whether emissions are material to their business opens the door for disputes, writes Michael Hurley

  • Republican states sue SEC to block climate rule

    07 March 2024

  • SEC adopts watered down climate rule in landmark moment

    06 March 2024

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a landmark rule on climate-related disclosures, although it watered down elements of it, including no longer requiring disclosures on Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

  • SEC delays hotly anticipated climate disclosure rule ... again

    08 December 2023

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed the adoption of its climate disclosures rule, to push back a final decision until April next year.

  • SEC's Gensler warns against legal challenge to climate disclosure rules

    27 October 2023

    US companies will follow overseas climate reporting rules if an update to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) climate rule is overturned in court, the regulator's head warned.

  • Chinese firms 'must improve ESG' in APAC listing pivot from US

    26 August 2022

    Chinese companies delisting from the US may need to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach if they wish to shift their secondary listing to Hong Kong or Singapore...

  • SEC rules may 'compel' companies to link pay to ESG, commissioner says

    26 August 2022

    Rules that require US-listed companies to describe the link between financial performance and how much they pay their executives could mean that boards feel "compelled" to link remuneration to sustainability metrics, a senior official suggested.

  • US SEC proposes rules for ESG disclosures, naming conventions

    26 May 2022

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rules to govern the information fund managers and advisers must provide when they market their funds as having an environmental, social or governance (ESG) focus.

  • SEC climate rules are evolution, not revolution - Gensler

    13 April 2022

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s proposed climate disclosure rules fit the agency's mandate and conform to its "long tradition"...