Mar. 22, 2022
The SEC's new Climate Rule should make all public companies, no matter what sector, have to disclose to investors all climate change and environmental risks, impacts, and opportunities, including, but not limited to, energy usage, water usage, air emissions, effluent emissions, solid waste output, and company social information, all of which should be followed on the globally-used framework issued by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) found here: https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/. In addition, while not necessarily within the responsibilities of the SEC, investors and the general public should have access to unbiased assessments of these risks provided by third parties, not only by companies. SEC could provide the service of compiling such assessments side by side with company disclosures. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.