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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in recent weeks multiple efforts to highlight climate change in corporate disclosures and to increase scrutiny and, potentially, enforcement focus on company disclosure efforts on climate and other environmental, social, and  governance (ESG) matters. While the topic of ESG disclosures is not new, the increased attention to the topic, and climate change in particular, is noteworthy and expected to remain an area of focus at the SEC and...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 In early March, the House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee released their legislative blueprint for tacking climate change, entitled the  Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act, or the CLEAN Future Act . This bill is nearly 1,000 pages in length and touches almost every segment of the economy. While Congress is still a long way off from any bipartisan climate legislation being enacted, the CLEAN Future Act  is a glimpse into what the House Democratic leadership is thinking and planning for the years to come ...

Major investors apply net-zero alignment framework to $8trn of assets A coalition of 35 big-name investors has become the first to apply a new net-zero investment framework to their portfolios, with $8trn of assets covered. The framework is designed to help investors deliver long-term net-zero financed emissions goals Among the first adopters of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change’s (IIGCC) framework are Scottish Widows, Aberdeen Standard, Brunel, Nest, Legal & General Asset Management, the Church of England Pensions Board and the Environment Agency Pension Fund. Collectivel...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 2, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) re-introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act (CLEAN Future Act), a comprehensive proposal aimed at transitioning the US to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by mid-century. The revised CLEAN Future Act comes as Congress, in the coming weeks and months, is expected to turn its focus t...

3 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a wide-ranging climate bill on Tuesday that embraces President Joe Biden’s goals to curb climate change including decarbonizing the electric grid by 2035. FILE PHOTO: A wind farm is shown in Movave, California, U.S., November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/ Introduced by Representatives Frank Pallone, Paul Tonko and Bobby Rush, and incorporating input from the Biden administration, the bill includes a federal clean electricity standard requiring a percentage of retail power sales to come...