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SEC Climate Rule Live Event Series

Elevate your strategy and navigate regulations to stay ahead

While the SEC's stay pauses the need for calculating the impact of certain climate-related events or conditions on the financial statements, the remaining provisions of the rule are required for other reporting regimes. Companies should continue to move forward according to plan and carry out an interoperability analysis.

Join us for our special KPMG Live Event series on how to navigate regulations to stay ahead. Additionally, find insights on our SEC Climate webpage.

LinkedIn Live: The Wait is Over - the SEC's Final Climate Rule is Here!

Date: March 12, 2024
Time: 2:30 p.m. ET

Join us live as US Sustainability Leaders discuss the SEC’s landmark regulation and what it means for corporate reporting standards and sustainable finance. Led by Rob Fisher, US Sustainability Leader, and Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader.

SEC Climate Rule Webcast Part 1: What Does the Rule Require? (Session 1)

Date: March 13, 2024 | Time: 2:00 p.m. ET | CPE: 1 credit

With its final climate rule, the SEC aims to provide more consistent, comparable and reliable information for investors. While scaled back from the initial proposal, the final rule significantly expands the reporting required by registrants. Join our discussion to understand what’s required. Led by Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader, and members of the Sustainability Team in the Department of Professional Practice, Julie Santoro, Anita Chan, and Bryce Ehrhardt.

At the end of this webcast, participants will have an understanding of:

  •  Who and what are in scope
  • Required financial statement disclosures
  • Required climate risk disclosures, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and assurance
  • Effective dates and transition
  • Implications for processes and controls
  • How the requirements compare to other frameworks

CPE Credit: Participants will be eligible for 1 CPE credit in the field of accounting for attending one of the 60-minute sessions and responding to live check-ins. Since the content for the March 13 and 26 sessions will be the same, participants are only eligible to receive CPE for attending one session.

SEC Climate Rule Webcast Part 1: What Does the Rule Require? (Session 2)

Date: March 26, 2024 | Time: 11:00 a.m. ET | CPE: 1 credit

With its final climate rule, the SEC aims to provide more consistent, comparable and reliable information for investors. While scaled back from the initial proposal, the final rule significantly expands the reporting required by registrants. Join our discussion to understand what’s required. Led by Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader, and members of the Sustainability Team in the Department of Professional Practice, Julie Santoro, Anita Chan, and Bryce Ehrhardt.

At the end of this webcast, participants will have an understanding of:

  •  Who and what are in scope
  • Required financial statement disclosures
  • Required climate risk disclosures, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and assurance
  • Effective dates and transition
  • Implications for processes and controls
  • How the requirements compare to other frameworks

CPE Credit: Participants will be eligible for 1 CPE credit in the field of accounting for attending one of the 60-minute sessions and responding to live check-ins. Since the content for the March 13 and 26 sessions will be the same, participants are only eligible to receive CPE for attending one session.

SEC Webcast Part 2: The Impact on Companies’ Enterprise Strategy and Climate Agenda

Date: April 9, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
CPE: 1 credit

Focus on how the SEC rule has the power to transform the organization through strategy and implementation across the enterprise, as well as climate, nature, and decarbonization initiatives. Led by Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader, Mark Golovcsenko, Climate and Sustainability Advisory Leader, and Katherine Blue, Climate and Sustainability Advisory Leader.

By the end of this webcast, participants will learn:

  • Emerging practices around embedding climate, and it’s associated financial implications, into companies’ enterprise strategy and operating models
  • The operational implications of the SEC requirement to different functions within companies
  • No regrets moves that, triggered by the SEC requirements, are applicable to companies at different stages on their climate journey
  • Perspectives on the potential of current and emerging technologies to support companies in complying with the SEC climate rule

SEC Climate Rule Webcast Part 3: The Impact on Companies’ Reporting, Data & Technology and Governance

Date: April 23, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
CPE: 1 credit

Discuss impact of the SEC’s climate rule across the enterprise through data and technology, reporting and governance initiatives. Led by Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader, Angie Ty, Sustainability Reporting Leader, Pravin Chandran, Sustainability Data & Technology Leader,  and Steve Estes, Sustainability Governance Leader.

By the end of this webcast, participants will learn how to:

  • Leverage sustainability reporting to bring value to your organization beyond compliance
  • Prepare an integrated sustainability data and technology ecosystem to automate and streamline metrics calculations, reporting and enable SEC governance
  • Apply learnings from early implementation of the SEC’s proposed rule and compliance with other sustainability reporting rules e.g. CSRD, ISSB
  • Consider different ways to structure your sustainability reporting groups in accounting, finance, internal audit, SOX into an integrated and value add part of your organization
  • Instill the importance and need for process, controls, and governance in your sustainability reporting operating model and across the organization

SEC Climate Rule Webcast Part 4: Disclosing the Impact of Climate Risks in Financial Statements

Date: May 7, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
CPE: 1 credit

Join our discussion of the disclosures in the financial statements – what they are and how they might look, and how they connect to climate-related risks and disclosures outside of the financial statements. Led by Maura Hodge, Sustainability Audit Leader, Julie Santoro, Partner, Department of Professional Practice, and Anita Chan, Partner, Department of Professional Practice.

At the end of this webcast, participants will have an understanding of:

  • Understand the required disclosures in the financial statements and how they might look
  • Understand how those disclosures connect to climate-related risks and disclosures outside of the financial statements

This is not just a compliance exercise, but a unique opportunity to unlock value with investors, customers, and employees. The SEC's ruling will raise the bar across businesses, demanding deeper sustainability engagement to gain that edge.

Rob Fisher

KPMG US Sustainability Leader

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