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On July 9, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to help guide companies in complying with the state's new Corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting and Climate-Related...more
Last week, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB")--the agency responsible for implementing California's mandatory climate disclosures--issued additional guidance concerning these regulations. Significantly, although...more
On May 29, 2025, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") affirmed the statutory deadlines for disclosures under SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261 (the Climate-related Financial Risk Act)....more
On January 27, 2025, N.Y Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D), introduced Senate Bill 3456 (“SB 3456”) calling for the adoption of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“CCDAA”). The bill is substantively identical to...more
Recently, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge posted this critique of California's climate disclosure laws - SB 253 and SB 261. Readers of this blog will recall that SB 253 requires "reporting entities" to disclose Scope 1, 2...more
In this alert, we reflect on recent climate reporting updates and analyze expectations for 2025 that are relevant for international businesses....more
On January 13, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council withdrew the greenhouse gas (GHG) disclosure rule that it proposed in late 2022. As explained previously, the proposed rule would have required certain federal...more
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced this month that it will use enforcement discretion for the first greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reports due in 2026 to allow regulated businesses (doing business in...more
2 On December 5, 2024, the California Air Resources Board--the agency responsible for implementing California's climate disclosure regulations--announced that it would “exercise enforcement discretion for the first reporting...more
Earlier this year, the SEC issued its long-awaited regulation concerning mandatory climate disclosures. As expected, this climate disclosure rule was immediately challenged in the courts by, among others, conservative states...more
The updates include two consultation conclusions from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and notice from the Companies Registry. The key updates in March and April 2024 include the publication of the consultation...more
Earlier this month, 38 Congressional Democrats (10 Senators; 28 Representatives) sent a letter to Chairman Gary Gensler of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), urging the SEC to robustly enforce its existing rules and...more
The Australian government is in the process of finalising legislation relating to its proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure regime, following the completion of a one-month consultation process on the draft...more
Australian Update - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Enforcement Priorities for 2024-2025 - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced its enforcement and compliance priorities for...more
Each month we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine: •The Fifth Circuit’s stay of the SEC’s recent adoption of...more
Amid new regulations, increased enforcement and litigation, and higher stakeholder scrutiny, companies will need to adopt an integrated and nuanced approach to ESG. In some ways, 2023 was a challenging year for ESG. This...more
SEC Enforcement: In its yearly summary of enforcement activity, the SEC chose to highlight ESG-related issues as one of only a handful of subject matter areas that the SEC is focused on, indicating the significant priority...more
In this program, we will focus on SEC developments affecting, and practical aspects of preparing for, public companies’ annual meetings and annual reports, including compensation, shareholder proposals and corporate...more
Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Allison Herren Lee gave an incredibly insightful keynote address at the 2021 Society for Corporate Governance National Conference and spoke to the expanding...more
The National Waste & Recycling Association (“NWRA”) submitted comments to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) addressing its proposed rule titled: Enhancement and Standardization of...more
Today, the SEC issued two complementary press releases announcing certain proposed rules. First, the SEC announced "proposed amendments to enhance and modernize the Investment Company Act 'Names Rule'" that would "extend the...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Proposed Rules on Climate-Related Disclosure, released March 21, 2022, represent a significant change in public company disclosure requirements and, if adopted, will have far-reaching...more
Last week, during a program on "Building the Financial System of the 21st Century," in the course of a speech principally focused on various market risks, SEC Commissioner Crenshaw nonetheless availed herself of the...more
Yesterday, the SEC announced the formation of a Climate and ESG Task Force in the Division of Enforcement. This announcement follows Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee’s earlier statement directing the Division of Corporation...more
In this episode recorded in late February, Akin Gump financial regulatory partners Helen Marshall and Ezra Zahabi, using Akin Gump’s recently published In Principle annual report as a springboard, discuss what U.K. authorized...more