Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses White House Roadmap to Address Climate-Related Financial Risk
On October 14, 2021, the White House issued a report entitled “A Roadmap to Build a Climate-resilient Economy.”[1] The 40-page report was mandated by President Biden’s May 2021 executive order on “Climate-Related Financial Risk” (the “EO”)[2] and presents the Administration’s “roadmap for measuring, disclosing, managing and mitigating climate-related financial risk across the economy,” while “catalyzing public and private investment to seize the opportunity of a net-zero, clean energy future.”[3] Guided by the five primary principles outlined in the report, the Administration’s government-wide climate-risk strategy involves six main work streams:
- promoting the resilience of the U.S. financial system