…Ecosystem: Part III, Chapter 6 — Part III: Baseline Conditions and Climate Stress Part III establishes the baseline against which all subsequent scenarios are evaluated. It does not yet introduce political change or alternative…
…an Interpretive Release — On May 29, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rule in its entirety. The rule, adopted in March 2024, had been stayed within weeks, never took…
…the other is failing. The shock is not merely a disaster. It is a climate shock in the operational sense used throughout this book—sustained physical disruption consistent with climate-driven risk trajectories, large enough to register…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has several roles and one of them is to regulate certain aspects of the shareholder proposal process. This process occurs when shareholders of a company submit proposals to be included in a…
On Monday September 18, 2023, the first day of Climate Week in New York City, I was privileged to attend the global launch of the recommendations of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) hosted by the New York Stock…
I met Joseph Noss at the launch of Liberty Mutual’s “ Climate Transition Cente r.” At that time, he was Senior Director and Head of Financial Services in WTW’s (formerly Willis Towers Watson’s) Climate & Resilience Hub. He had previously…
…on COP26, a key takeaway at the intersection of capital markets and climate was the formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). During the initial days in Glasgow, the IFRS Foundation announced the formation of…
…practice of buying small stakes in public companies and pushing for change – is one of the best tools we have for holding companies accountable. The efforts of shareholder activists can benefit not just long-term investors (including the…
…on COP26, a key takeaway at the intersection of capital markets and climate was the formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). During the initial days in Glasgow, the IFRS Foundation announced the formation of…
…practice of buying small stakes in public companies and pushing for change—is one of the best tools we have for holding companies accountable. The efforts of shareholder activists can benefit not just long-term investors (including the…
The U.K.-originating climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has caused a substantial amount of disruption. Its tactics include blocking traffic, grounding flights, and gluing themselves to public buildings and to each other. This…
…systems experience failures that correlate with projected climate stress patterns. Agricultural yields decline in documented geographic clusters. Supply chains adapt to recurrent disruption that no longer registers as…
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