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SEC Climate-Related Disclosure Rules, Stay, and Rescission Proposal

SEC climate-disclosure rulemaking requiring climate-risk and related financial disclosures, stayed during litigation, no longer defended by the SEC in 2025, and proposed for rescission in 2026.

Use It For

Use this as the U.S. comparator for contested ESG disclosure. It shows how securities-law materiality, agency authority, litigation, and political change shape climate disclosure.

Teaching Notes

The final rule page remains useful for the adopted 2024 text: https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/2024/03/s7-10-22. The current teaching point is that the U.S. federal climate-disclosure regime is unsettled rather than fully operational.