Corporate Climate Risk – Page 4 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

The Reasonable Investor And Climate-Related Information: Changing Expectations For Financial Disclosures

Download Staff Attorney Hana Vizcarra’s comment in the February edition of ELI’s Environmental Law Reporter here: The Reasonable Investor and Climate-Related Information: Changing Expectations for Financial Disclosures In recent years, […]

January 31, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Hana Vizcarra and Samantha Ross on Investor Assurance and Corporate Climate Disclosures

For a full transcript of this recording please click here. In this episode our staff attorney Hana Vizcarra talks with Samantha Ross, former Chief of Staff and Special Counsel at […]

January 9, 2020

Understanding the New York v. Exxon Decision

What this case was…and wasn’t This week, a state court ruled that ExxonMobil did not mislead investors in its public disclosures about how it considers the impacts of climate change […]

December 12, 2019

What does the Business Roundtable statement mean? A lot, but also not that much.

The Business Roundtable, made up of CEOs of some of the largest U.S. companies, released a statement on August 19th on the purpose of a corporation that has garnered a […]

August 28, 2019

Influencing Energy Company Climate Disclosure Practices: Cautionary Words for State Attorneys General

In her new white paper and recently published article in the Vermont Law Review, Hana Vizcarra discusses corporate climate disclosures and how state attorneys general can avoid undercutting investor-led efforts to […]

July 18, 2019

Energy EOs In Depth: Infrastructure EO Section 5, More Bluster than Substance?

President Trump signed two executive orders on April 10, 2019 in Crosby, Texas, outside of Houston: EO 13868, titled “Executive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Energy Growth”, and EO 13867 on […]

April 30, 2019

Shifting Perspectives: E&P Companies Talk Climate and the Energy Transition

Download this post here. Right now, the power we use to get around, cook our food, run our economy, and go about our daily lives remains heavily dependent on fossil […]

March 26, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw – Hana Vizcarra and Sarah Light: The Law of Corporation as Environmental Law

How can business law better incentivize companies to take environmental consequences into account? In her latest article, Prof. Sarah Light, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at Wharton, […]

March 20, 2019