US Healthcare's Climate-Related Financial Risk Exposure

The SEC's final climate disclosure rule may prove to be one of the most consequential healthcare industry regulations.

Yesterday, Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law published, “The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Will Reveal Healthcare’s Significant Climate Risk Exposure,” I co-wrote with the Sabin Center’s s Director of Financial Regulation, Ms. Cynthia Hanawalt.

US healthcare is particularly exposed to climate-related financial risk because the industry is heavily dependent on debt financing, accounts for a massive amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and remains uncommitted to mitigating its emissions.

At: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2024/07/23/the-secs-climate-disclosure-rule-will-reveal-healthcares-significant-climate-risk-exposure/.

The essay is my 17th climate-related healthcare policy publication over the past two years.