Will the SEC and Disclosure Solve the Climate Crisis and Further Divide the China and the US?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Felix and Mihir are joined by Charlotte Howard of the Economist and discuss the impact of new disclosure rules for geopolitical relations between China and the U.S. and the future of climate. Are these changes fundamental to the future of climate and the world, window dressing, or a manifestation of deeper problems?
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| 0:45.6 | Hello, everyone. This is After Hours. I'm Felix. And I'm me here. And we are delighted to |
| 0:51.4 | welcome Charlotte Howard to our podcast today. Yeah. For our listeners, Charlotte is the US |
| 0:56.7 | business editor and the New York bureau chief for the Economist magazine, someone whose work |
| 1:00.2 | we've admired. And I'm sure many of our listeners will have admired as well. So we're delighted |
| 1:03.7 | to have you, Charlotte. Welcome. Yes. Great for you to be here. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm a big fan of your podcast. And I especially enjoyed your discussion last week of moralistic |
| 1:13.0 | consumers. And on that issue, I think I saw it with me here, who I think said he sounded like a cranky |
| 1:19.2 | old man. I did. And I'd like to state for the record that I too can be a cranky old man by disposition |
| 1:25.4 | and not by gender or age. So I'm glad to be in good company. I feel like I'm in a minority already. |
| 1:33.5 | Great. Would you all bring to talk about Charlotte? Would you bring on March 21st the SEC published |
| 1:38.6 | this 506 page proposal on climate disclosure? Yeah. It gets at the question of how companies |
| 1:45.8 | assess the risk of climate change itself, as well as the risk of dealing with climate legislation. |
| 1:51.8 | So that's what I'm hoping to talk about. Yeah. Super interesting. That sounds great. |
| 1:54.8 | And what a coincidence. I have an SEC related topic as well. I'm not sure if you saw they published |
| 2:01.3 | a first set of names about Chinese companies that are likely to be delisted. Yeah. |
| 2:06.9 | Unless there's some compromise about financial reporting, I would love to get your take on this. |
| 2:12.6 | All right, very good. So Charlotte, climate and SEC ideas about reporting, what caught your eye? |
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