Hello, I strongly support 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 negatively affecting the whole world. The ieffects, 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 polluters. As climate-related disasters keep increasing in frequency and severity, the resulting death and destruction left in the wake become more challenging and more costly to mitigate.
Investors and other market actors must have all the necessary information in order to make smart, climate- and community-forward investment decisions. Please initiate and support a sustainable American market that gives investors and other market actors the choice to support companies that do their best to protect the environment, as well as companies that actively work to address climate change and related issues.
Other countries already require climate-related disclosures from companies. It's time for the U.S. 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 rising global average temperatures causing significant losses in biodiversity, we are quickly losing all that is precious to us. Please do all you can to protect our precious biodiversity before it's too late.
We need transparent information about climate-related investment risks. Thank you for proposing this rule. I urge the SEC to finalize it as quickly as possible.
Thank you.