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Author
Publisher
[Center for Energy & Environmental Security]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Under existing SEC disclosure requirements, a public corporation is required to fully and fairly disclose facts about its operations that are "material" to a shareholder's investment decision. But despite the growing evidence of climate change's broad range of impacts, 76.3% of annual reports filed in 2008 by S&P 500 corporations failed to even mention climate change. The true test of proper climate risk disclosure will be its quality, assessed using...