Episode: 269: SEC Climate Rule Nears Finalization. Big Companies Beware.

The SEC’s new rule mandating publicly-traded companies provide detailed disclosure about the financial impact of climate change on their business is in the home stretch. To help us figure it out, Aaron Frazier, Vice President of Public Policy for the National Restaurant Association, stops by the pod and lets us know the latest and greatest and what brands need to prepare for. And last week, the Schultz Family Foundation (founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz) in partnership with Harvard Business School and the Burning Glass Institute launched the American Opportunity Index, a scorecard that ranks large companies by how well they create economic mobility for their workers. We’ll discuss how the restaurant industry - “the industry of opportunity” - fared on the index. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.