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Climate risk disclosure mandates have already been widely adopted internationally and in the United States, despite implementation challenges. All of them aim to standardize how information on climate-related financial risk reaches the capital markets, with international standards extending to material sustainability risks as well. All of them also ask companies to prioritize these stakeholder-linked considerations and to embed them into corporate governance mechanisms in some form.
City University of Hong Kong School of Law Professor Virginia Harper Ho will discuss how mandatory climate disclosure is already shifting corporate governance norms and standards toward stakeholder integration, along with the implications of this shift for corporate governance doctrine and practice. Professor Harper Ho has contributed to ESG reform initiatives of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before entering academia, she practiced corporate and securities law and advised U.S. and foreign multinationals on cross-border transactions with a focus on Asia. Her article “Corporate Climate Governance” is forthcoming in the Journal of Corporation Law.
Presented by the Center for Business Law and Society. Co-sponsored with the Center for International Law and Policy. Lunch provided.