What a difference a few months and a new administration make!  Early in the Biden administration, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the main regulator of securities market participants, set out to re-evaluate its regulation of corporate climate change disclosure. This welcome re-examination comes as governments globally are rolling out their own climate change disclosure frameworks, such as the European Union’s suite of regulations including the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, Non-Financial Reporting Directive, and Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities. In March, the SEC asked for input on a wide variety of climate change disclosure questions, as well as the broader framework of …

Known as Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District was a hub of Black business and culture before it was devastated by racial violence. Few, especially white Americans, understand the significance of this event or location because knowledge about it was actively obscured, not taught in schools, nor discussed in popular culture. However, we at Trillium Asset Management believe that on this 100th anniversary we need to actively remember it and understand its role in shaping American economic and racial history. The Greenwood District was an intentionally formed community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. O.W. Gurley, a wealthy Black entrepreneur, moved to …

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2005, and the years of 2014-2020 have been the top seven hottest.  Storms, floods, fires, and droughts are on the rise, as weather patterns become unpredictable.   Globally, this reality is now accepted as fact, not hypothesis, and even the U.S. has once again joined the international community to work together to slow and eventually halt emissions causing this crisis.  It is exciting to be part of this work, on a national basis, again!   While public policy is an important framework for …

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Today 50 investors representing $105 billion released a letter calling for the U.S. EPA and Congress to permanently protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, and the world’s largest wild salmon fishery, against large-scale mining. While recognizing the importance of natural resource development to support economic growth, the signatories expressed deep concern over the long-term negative social and environmental impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine, a massive open-pit gold and copper project in the Bristol Bay headwaters proposed by Canadian junior mining company Northern Dynasty (NYSE: NAK). “Pollution from mineral extraction generates very real, but currently unpriced, economic, social, and environmental externalities,” said Jonas Kron, …