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Uncertainty: After the SEC guidance

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A month after the SEC’s clarification on climate risk, little is clarified.
All in all, the guidance seems to require a level of ambiguous prognostication that would make an astrologer proud. Even looking at the basics, the guidance requires more speculative than concrete reporting, including the:

Impact of legislation and regulation, both existing and potential
Impact of international [...]

Business Leaders Opt to Measure and Report

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The secret is that major corporations, even in the United States, are voluntarily signing up and reporting their carbon.
Organizations like the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Global Reporting Initiative are tracking corporate emissions at the request of companies. CRD Analytics, which has a leading index of the Sustainability 100, noted that these companies outperformed the [...]