Companies that consider the legal wrangling over climate-disclosure rules to be a reprieve are almost certainly deceiving themselves. Even without the SEC’s climate disclosure rules, there are growing pressures on US companies to provide far more by way of ESG disclosures and the pressures are coming from many fronts at once.
You should be getting ready. Because it seems inevitable that far greater climate disclosures will soon be required, here are three recommendations for how public companies can prepare themselves for a new and more rigorous reporting regime.