Jun. 14, 2022
Hello, this email comes to you today to express my 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 impacts every region of the world, and its effects—include extreme weather and related climate-fueled disasters and it is only accelerating. The earth's inhabitants are suffering the consequences of an unstable climate and environmental degradation perpetuated by polluters. As climate related disasters continue to increase in frequency and severity, the death and destruction are harder and harder for us to recover from such devastation. 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 don’t have all the necessary information to make smart, climate- and community-forward investment decisions. It is time for us to have a sustainable American market that gives investors and other market actors the choice to support companies that do more to protect our environments, and those that actively try to address climate change and related issues. Other countries are already requiring these types of climate related disclosures from companies, so we, the USA need to step up and do the same. The environment and all that it provides us is priceless! We enjoy national and state parks that offer us inspiring views and exciting glances at wildlife, and the biodiversity found across this nation provides life-sustaining ecosystem services. With global average temperatures on the rise causing large losses in biodiversity, we are quickly losing all that is precious to us. We need transparent information about climate-related investment risks. Thank you for proposing this rule, and we urge the SEC to finalize it as quickly as possible. K Pendergrass