- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aaron Nicodemus2023-09-19T19:08:00
It’s no longer a question of if regulators will require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It’s a question of when, experts told attendees during the opening session of Compliance Week’s virtual ESG Summit on Tuesday.
“The requirement to disclose GHG emissions will find you,” said independent consultant Doug Hileman as part of a discussion on the regulatory landscape for environmental, social, and governance reporting.
Referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed climate-related disclosure rule, which would require public companies to disclose GHG emissions of their value chain (Scope 3 emissions), Hileman advised, “Whether the SEC includes Scope 3 or not (in its rule), it won’t matter. You need to gear up to do it.”
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A coalition of business groups filed a lawsuit opposing two California laws that require large businesses to make climate-related disclosures, calling it a fight against illegal and excessive government overreach.
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Climate-related disclosure efforts are amplifying year over year, despite persistent and persnickety pain points, as more organizations widen the scope of their ESG journeys, our “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey found.
2023-11-01T14:00:00Z By Neil Hodge
So many companies rely on suppliers to self-certify they comply with buyers’ codes of business conduct that the practice is “almost useless,” a panel of experts discussed at Compliance Week’s Europe conference in London.
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In another sign of President Donald Trump’s focus on cryptocurrency, the head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create proposals to consider crypto assets for a single-family home mortgage.
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Four years after Brexit, the U.K. and EU announced a “reset” that will ease barriers to importing and exporting food, drink, and agricultural produce. It may also harmonize rules around carbon emissions trading systems, simplifying compliance for multinational organizations that are large emitters, and enable more young people to gain ...
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty as commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, marking a shift in agency staffing that gave commissioners nominated by President Donald Trump a majority of decision-making power. The move followed resignations of two commissioners earlier this month, each of whom had been nominated ...
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