Thomas: Many Large Filers Likely Already Report Scope 3 Emissions
Mallory Thomas · Digging into the SEC climate disclosure rules · Mar 21, 2024 · at 8:32
Mallory Thomas discusses the SEC's decision to drop Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions reporting from its final climate disclosure rules.
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“With the scope three, I think the hard part is a lot of the, it's hard to gather that data, and it's hard to, for companies, especially, you know, we think about large accelerated filers, likely a lot of them are probably already reporting scope three. Many of them probably are, so it's less impactful, to be honest.”
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