ESG Essentials Podcast: The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Our ESG podcast series features short episodes covering core ESG concepts. Each podcast explores important issues for businesses that are concerned with developing and deploying an ESG profile, responding to increased scrutiny from regulators, investors and consumers regarding their environmental and social impact, and minimizing the potential legal and business risks that can be associated with ESG.
In March 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced with great fanfare the creation of its Climate and ESG Task Force to proactively identify ESG-related misconduct. Three years later, the SEC quietly shuttered it. Why?
Hosts David Colvin and Karen Davis consider the reasons the agency may have elected to disband its task force and how it may approach ESG enforcement in the future. The pair also explore the legal challenges to the proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Rules.
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