Climate risk disclosures originated as part of more general sustainability disclosure frameworks but now plays a prominent role in the evolution of mandated sustainability disclosures. This chapter explores the evolution of climate risk disclosure guidance and how it increasingly reflects the...

We explore usefulness of a measure based on 10-K disclosures of firm-specific climate risk exposure. We find that our measure is negatively associated with firm value and positively associated with implied cost of capital and beta. Climate risk disclosure tone is significantly associated with...