In response to the rapid growth of market practices with respect to ESG investing to assess and manage climate transition risks in financial markets, the OECD Committee on Financial Markets (CMF) has developed a substantive body of work that provides analysis on challenges with respect to current market practices, and proposes policy considerations to improve them (OECD, Policy guidance on market practices to strengthen ESG investing and finance a climate… [read post]

[5] Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change, Release No. 33-9106 (Feb. 2, 2010) [75 FR 6290 (Feb. 8, 2010)] [6] See Basic Inc. v. [read post]

(Holyoke, MA; Armando Santiago, President) A&C Cleaning Corp. [read post]

Today, for reasons both technological and political, there is an increasing divergence and growing conflict between U.S. and foreign laws that compel, and prohibit, production of data in response to governmental surveillance directives.[1][2]  Major U.S. telecommunications and Internet providers[3] face escalating pressure from foreign governments, asserting foreign law, to require production of data stored by the providers in the United States, in ways that violate U.S. law.[4]  At the… [read post]