SEC Votes to Require Public Disclosure of Financial Risk of Climate Change
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to require public companies to disclose the financial risks they face related to climate change. In her opening remarks, SEC Chairman Mary...
View ArticleNGOs Win Court Battle Against Ex-Im Bank, OPIC on Project Financing
According to EnvironmentalLeader.com, San Francisco’s federal court settled a lawsuit in which environmental groups and four U.S. cities accused the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the...
View ArticleDark Clouds on the Climate Horizon
In 2009, there was a general sense in the US that some regulatory and economic certainty would finally be established relative to greenhouse gases, and CO2 in particular. The current administration...
View ArticleDetails and Excerpts from the SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Interpretive...
As we previously reported, the SEC issued their interpretive guidance concerning the need for publicly-traded companies to identify, assess and (if necessary) report climate-related business risks...
View ArticleThe Elm Consulting Group International, LLC and Sentiment360 Announce...
Use of New Technology Tracks Public Perception of Companies’ Sustainability/Climate Programs In the Federal Register dated February 8, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 6290), The Securities and Exchange Commission...
View Article“Surprised and Concerned” About Illegitimate Government-Sponsored CER Trading?
Environmental Leader has reported that the Hungarian government sold 2 million previously used CERs, the market became tepid. Then when prices fell from more than 12 euro per credit to less than one...
View ArticleCNBC Airs Feature on “Carbon Hunters”
Last night (April 20, 2010), CNBC aired an hour-long TV segment on the burgeoning industry labeled “carbon hunting”, the practice of finding, aggregating, marketing and selling carbon credits. While...
View ArticleWell, There You Have It…
NYT reports that Washington has abandoned hope of issuing carbon legislation this year, including cap-and-trade. The inaction is also dragging down regional/state programs as well, including the...
View ArticleWalMart’s Hot Air
Yesterday, the world’s largest retailer and its cadre of sustainability advisors released the 61-page Walmart Supplier GHG Innovation Program: Guidance Document. Elm has read through this document and...
View ArticleEHS Journal Article on Sustainability, Financial Valuation
Recently, Elm posted a piece discussing comments from Kevin Parker, the CEO of Deutsche Asset Management, an investment firm with three-fourths of US$1 trillion under management. We expanded that...
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