Julia Forbess

Apr 12, 2024 | jdsupra.com | David Bell |Julia Forbess |Ron Llewellyn

Amidst challenges and conflicting demands from a variety of stakeholders, technology and life sciences companies have increased their voluntary disclosure regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. Despite growing anti-ESG sentiments, there has been continued progress in several important ESG disclosure areas, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and employee diversity, as demonstrated by their increasing comprehensiveness.

Mar 25, 2024 | mondaq.com | David Bell |Ran Ben-Tzur |Julia Forbess |AMAN SINGH

On March 6, 2024, the SEC adopted landmark disclosure rules (Final Rules) mandating extensive climate-related disclosure in companies' annual reports and registration statements. While the Final Rules eliminate the requirement to disclose Scope 3 emissions from indirect sources and make numerous other changes from the proposed rules, the overall compliance burden for reporting companies will increase, in some cases very significantly.