SEC Climate Risk Disclosures: What Today's Science Can Tell You
SEC Climate Risk Disclosures: What Today's Science Can Tell You
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Jupiter recently held a webinar exploring the fundamental links between physical climate risk and its potential financial impacts on SEC registrants’ operations, business performance, and individual assets.
In the webinar, we took a giant step towards understanding ways in which climate and data science can offer decision-useful information about how acute and chronic climate-driven weather hazards can impact organizations’ financial health, strategic planning, and business processes—along with investor decisions.
Our panel's key takeaways
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“There’s inevitability here … What happens in the United States certainly matters, but this is a cross-jurisdictional compliance issue … [It offers the ability] not just to manage risk and the downsides, but also to think about opportunistic aspects: customers, supply chains, market demand. That’s part of the New Economy: the winds have shifted, and Jupiter is part of the tailwind.”
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“To truly identify climate-informed risk, you have to think of it as a total service package that starts with yourself—identifying your vulnerability: your climate threats and how they project into the future. Then you have to map that to your financial impacts.”
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“The SEC is allowing issuers flexibility in how to define what’s material, their timeframes, and the scenarios [issuers] use; you should look for a company—such as Jupiter—that has the expertise and the ability to provide what you need to determine what’s most relevant for your business.”