Jun. 15, 2022
Secretary Vanessa A. Countryman Countryman, I am an Investor–retired teacher with a retirement plan that includes a pension, an IRA, and other stock instruments. My investment managers need to have access to standardized, comparable information about public companies’ vulnerability to climate change and their current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-- so that they properly guide my investments away from companies that ignore climate risks. I want my investments to support companies who take action on their public climate commitments. I urge you to adopt rules which require all public companies to mitigate and disclose climate risks. The proposed rules level the playing field for all public companies, regarding climate risks inherent in their operations, by making such disclosures mandatory, not voluntary. Therefore I support the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s recent proposal (87 FR 21334; File No: S7-10-22) to require public companies to make standardized, mandatory disclosures about their climate-related financial risks within annual SEC filings. Sincerely,