[PAA-Discuss] [protecthoustonsclimate] SEC ask to require corporations to disclose climate risk

[A. Artemis]

"protect investors from the risks posed by climate change."
   
  IOW, let Big Industry off the hook for murder.
   
  You can contact the SEC at:  https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/question
  or  http://sec.gov/contact.shtml


Nan Hildreth <NanHildreth at riseup.net> wrote:
  >From: "Jim Marston" 
>Subject: [ElSol] FW: [uscan-talk] press coverage on petition filed today asking SEC to require that corporations disclose climate risk

>From: Chris Fox [mailto:fox at ceres.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:36 PM
>To: uscan-talk at lists.usclimatenetwork.org; 
>clean at lists.usclimatenetwork.org; CAN TALK
>Subject: [uscan-talk] press coverage on petition 
>filed today asking SEC to require that corporations disclose climate risk
>
>Dear colleagues:
>I am writing to inform you that this morning the 
>Washington 
>Post, 
>Wall 
>Street Journal, 
>New 
>York Times and 
>L.A. 
>Times broke the news that investors, state 
>officials and environmental groups delivered a 
>petition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange 
>Commission (SEC) asking the SEC to protect 
>investors from the risks posed by climate change.
>
>The petition – filed by investors with over $1.5 
>trillion in assets as well as Ceres, 
>Environmental Defense, Friends of the Earth, and 
>the New York State Attorney General – calls on 
>the SEC to require all publicly-traded companies 
>to disclose climate-related risks. The full 
>text of the petition can be found at 
>www.ceres.org. A copy of 
>the press release issued today and links to news articles are pasted in below.
>
>Bravo to our colleagues in the environmental 
>community and the investment community that are 
>joining forces to support improved corporate 
>disclosure and accountability on climate change.
>
>
>If you have any questions, or if you are interested in learning more about the Investor 
>Network on Climate Risk (INCR) working group that Ceres coordinates that has been pressing the SEC on climate risk since 2003, please contact Ceres President Mindy Lubber (lubber at ceres.org),  Ceres attorney Jim Coburn (coburn at ceres.org) or me.
>
>Best regards,
>Chris
>=========

>Links to news articles:
>
>Washington Post on 9/18/07: SEC Pressed to Require Climate-Risk Disclosures
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/17/AR2007091701833.html?hpid=moreheadlines
>
>New York Times on 9/18/02: Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/18disclose.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
>
>Wall Street Journal on 9/18/07: SEC Pressed on Climate-Change Disclosures
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007673495930620.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
>LA Times on 9/18/07: Warming threat disclosures sought
>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-warming18sep18,0,6192636.story?coll=la-home-center
>
>========
>
>PRESS RELEASE
http://www.ceres.org/news/news_item.php?nid=333


       
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