EBF response to SEC climate disclosure requirements June 2022

UN SDGs Five Years On

Thursday 24 June 16:00 CEST

EBF CONSULTATION RESPONSE
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EBF response to SEC climate disclosure requirements June 2022

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BRUSSELS, 17^th June 2022  – Please find below a few key points of the EBF response to the consultation:

• Need for the SEC to create an outcomes-based substituted compliance  regime to allow foreign private issuers (FPIs) to rely on comparable home country requirements, and an option for both FPIs and U.S. registrants to use  international standards as an alternative reporting mechanism


• Need to avoid changes in accounting policies (Section F)


• Need for the SEC to continue engaging with the ISSB and other jurisdictions’ standard setters to align global climate disclosure requirements

For more information:

Denisa Avermaete, Senior Policy Adviser, Financing Sustainable Growth, d.avermaete@ebf.eu
Alexia Femia, Financing Sustainable Growth Adviser, a.femia@ebf.eu

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About the EBF:
The European Banking Federation is the voice of the European banking sector, bringing together 32 national banking associations in Europe that together represent a significant majority of all banking assets in Europe, with 3,500 banks – large and small, wholesale and retail, local and international – while employing approximately two million people. EBF members represent banks that make available loans to the European economy in excess of €20 trillion and that reliably handle more than 400 million payment transactions per day. Launched in 1960, the EBF is committed to a single market for financial services in the European Union and to supporting policies that foster economic growth.

EBF response to SEC climate disclosure requirements June 2022