Project spotlight: The SEC gets serious about climate disclosure

March 2023

I was thrilled to serve as the marketing co-lead for the Watershed’s SEC reporting announcement which, on my part, included program management, internal company education and comms, a weekly tiger team policy discussion, and the production of all brand assets, including a webpage and video. I worked closely with our Heads of Policy, Communications, Science, and Risk on this project.

“We’re entering a new era of climate disclosure, where carbon reporting is coming out of a company’s CSR report and into its core financial reporting. In March 2022, the SEC proposed a new rule stating that publicly traded companies must report levels of greenhouse gas emissions that result from their operations.

The final rule, to be released as soon as April 2023, is expected to require companies to report all of their emissions, including scope 3, and show how they are integrating climate into their wider risk-management processes and their governance.”

“For the first time, US companies will have to assess and disclose both acute and chronic physical risk from climate change, a rising sea level, more extreme weather phenomena, as well as transition risks from broad economic changes due to climate change.” Laura Blattner, Head of Climate Risk, Watershed

Watch below and learn more on Watershed’s SEC site.