SEC Task force on ESG Accountability
Thursday, March 11, 2021 Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the creation of a new 22-person Climate and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Task Force in its Division of Enforcement, a notable development in a series of recent steps taken by the Biden administration focused on increasing ESG accountability. The task force will use sophisticated data analytics to mine information across registrants and proactively identify potential ESG-related misconduct, including material gaps and misstatements in companies’ required disclosure of cl...