<div>"protect investors from the risks posed by climate change."</div> <div> </div> <div><FONT face=verdana color=#033d21>IOW, let Big Industry off the hook for murder.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face=verdana color=#033d21></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=verdana color=#033d21>You can contact the SEC at:</FONT> <A href="https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/question">https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/question</A></div> <div><FONT face=verdana color=#033d21>or </FONT> <A href="http://sec.gov/contact.shtml">http://sec.gov/contact.shtml</A><BR><BR><BR><B><I>Nan Hildreth <NanHildreth@riseup.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <div>>From: "Jim Marston" <JMARSTON@ENVIRONMENTALDEFENSE.ORG><BR>>Subject: [ElSol] FW: [uscan-talk] press coverage on petition filed today asking SEC to require that corporations disclose climate risk<BR><BR>>From: Chris Fox [mailto:fox@ceres.org]<BR>>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:36 PM<BR>>To:
uscan-talk@lists.usclimatenetwork.org; <BR>>clean@lists.usclimatenetwork.org; CAN TALK<BR>>Subject: [uscan-talk] press coverage on petition <BR>>filed today asking SEC to require that corporations disclose climate risk<BR>><BR>>Dear colleagues:<BR>>I am writing to inform you that this morning the <BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fwp-dyn%2fcontent%2farticle%2f2007%2f09%2f17%2fAR2007091701833.html%3fhpid%3dmoreheadlines&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>Washington <BR>>Post, <BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fonline.wsj.com%2farticle%2fSB119007673495930620.html%3fmod%3dgooglenews_wsj&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>Wall <BR>>Street Journal, <BR>><HTTP:
page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com%2f2007%2f09%2f18%2fbusiness%2f18disclose.html%3f_r%3d2%26ref%3dbusiness%26oref%3dslogin%26oref%3dslogin&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>New <BR>>York Times and <BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.latimes.com%2fbusiness%2fla-fi-warming18sep18%2c0%2c6192636.story%3f&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>L.A. <BR>>Times broke the news that investors, state <BR>>officials and environmental groups delivered a <BR>>petition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange <BR>>Commission (SEC) asking the SEC to protect <BR>>investors from the risks posed by climate change.<BR>><BR>>The petition – filed by investors with over $1.5 <BR>>trillion in assets as well as Ceres, <BR>>Environmental Defense, Friends of the Earth, and <BR>>the New York State Attorney General – calls on <BR>>the SEC to require all publicly-traded companies
<BR>>to disclose climate-related risks. The full <BR>>text of the petition can be found at <BR>><HTTP: www.ceres.org>www.ceres.org. A copy of <BR>>the press release issued today and links to news articles are pasted in below.<BR>><BR>>Bravo to our colleagues in the environmental <BR>>community and the investment community that are <BR>>joining forces to support improved corporate <BR>>disclosure and accountability on climate change.<BR>><BR>><BR>>If you have any questions, or if you are interested in learning more about the Investor <BR>>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 (<mailto:lubber@ceres.org><A href="mailto:lubber@ceres.org">lubber@ceres.org</A>), Ceres attorney Jim Coburn (<mailto:coburn@ceres.org>coburn@ceres.org) or me.<BR>><BR>>Best
regards,<BR>>Chris<BR>>=========<BR><BR>>Links to news articles:<BR>><BR>>Washington Post on 9/18/07: SEC Pressed to Require Climate-Risk Disclosures<BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fwp-dyn%2fcontent%2farticle%2f2007%2f09%2f17%2fAR2007091701833.html%3fhpid%3dmoreheadlines&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/17/AR2007091701833.html?hpid=moreheadlines<BR>><BR>>New York Times on 9/18/02: Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk<BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com%2f2007%2f09%2f18%2fbusiness%2f18disclose.html%3f_r%3d1%26ref%3dbusiness%26oref%3dslogin&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/18disclose.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin<BR>><BR>>Wall Street Journal on 9/18/07: SEC Pressed on Climate-Change
Disclosures<BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fonline.wsj.com%2farticle%2fSB119007673495930620.html%3fmod%3dgooglenews_wsj&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007673495930620.html?mod=googlenews_wsj<BR>><BR>>LA Times on 9/18/07: Warming threat disclosures sought<BR>><HTTP: page.redir?target="http%3a%2f%2fwww.latimes.com%2fbusiness%2fla-fi-warming18sep18%2c0%2c6192636.story%3fcoll%3dla-home-center&srcid=99&srctid=1&erid=267" NetCommunity www.incr.com>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-warming18sep18,0,6192636.story?coll=la-home-center<BR>><BR>>========<BR>><BR>>PRESS RELEASE<BR><HTTP: www.ceres.org news_item.php?nid="333" news><A href="http://www.ceres.org/news/news_item.php?nid=333">http://www.ceres.org/news/news_item.php?nid=333</A><BR></div></mailto:coburn@ceres.org></mailto:lubber@ceres.org><p>
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