May. 15, 2022
Hello, I’m writing to express my strong support for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rule to require publicly-traded companies to disclose climate-related financial risk information (S7-10-22). Climate change is impacting every region of the world, and its effects—including extreme weather and related climate-fueled disasters—are accelerating. Humans and wildlife alike are suffering the consequences of an unstable climate and environmental degradation perpetuated by the uncaring, uneducated, and especially the greedy. As climate-related disasters continue to increase in frequency and severity, the death and destruction left in their wake rise ever higher above today’s unprecedented levels. The promise of a stable financial system that can support the American economy is becoming more challenging to ensure, especially while investors and other market actors either lack necessary information to make smart, climate- and community-forward investment decisions, or even worse, just don’t care. I would like to see a sustainable American market that gives investors and other market actors the choice to support companies that try their best not to harm the environment, and those companies that realistically try to incorporate climate change and related environmental issues within their business policy. Other countries are already requiring these types of climate-related disclosures from companies, so it is time for the U.S. to step up and do likewise. The environment and all that it provides us is priceless, if destroyed it may be gone forever. With global average temperatures on the rise causing large losses in biodiversity, we are on the verge of losing all that is precious to us and all that sustains life on what has now become a fragile planet. Providing transparent information about climate-related investment risks., will give those of us who are wise enough to care, a vital tool for correcting this urgent threat to our survival Thank you for proposing this rule, and I urge the SEC to finalize it as quickly as possible. Munro Meyersburg