The final rule adopted on March 6, 2024, requires public companies to disclose information in three key areas: (1) climate-related financial risks, (2) GHG emissions, and (3) any climate-related targets or transition plans.

Sunshine Meeting on Climate-Related Disclosures Announced by the SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a Sunshine Meeting on Climate-Related Disclosures, which will be held on the SEC.gov website at 9:45 AM (ET) on Tuesday, March 6. This open meeting aims to discuss the SEC's ongoing efforts to enhance climate-related disclosures for publicly traded companies.

The IDD is about setting EU-wide rules for selling insurance products. It came into effect in October 2018.

MiFID II stands for the "Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II." It's a law in the European Union (EU) that regulates companies providing services linked to financial instruments (like stocks, bonds, units in collective investment schemes, and derivatives) and the places where those instruments are traded (like stock exchanges). Think of it as a set of rules to make financial markets more transparent, safe, and fair for everyone, especially for individual investors.

Scores are based on the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), previously known as the DJSI questionnaire.

ESG scores from Refinitiv are designed to transparently and objectively measure a company's relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main themes (emissions, environmental product innovation, human rights, shareholders, etc.) based on publicly-reported data.

Bloomberg's ESG Disclosure Score is a rating system that measures the level of transparency and disclosure of a company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.

Bloomberg's Environmental and Social (ES) Scores are ratings that measure companies' environmental and social performance.