What climate change? Temperatures Are Higher Than Ever, but Companies Don’t Want to Talk About It (aka: "Heads in Sinking Sand?")
- sciart0
- Jul 1
- 1 min read
Excerpt to 1st link above: "As parts of the U.S. swelter under punishing temperatures, companies are faced with rising fatigue among workers who are exposed to the high heat, as well as infrastructure stresses.
And yet, businesses are talking less about extreme heat and other weather risks this year than they did in investor filings in the first half of 2024.
Mentions of climate change have also dropped.
In total, the number of securities filings containing terms related to droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat declined 31% in the first five months of 2025 from the same period a year earlier, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of data from Factiva, a product of Dow Jones, publisher of the Journal.
Mentions of climate change were down a similar 32% over that time.
The declines are a significant turnaround from a 22% rise in the number of documents containing climate-risk terms between 2022 and 2024.
The analysis, of more than 200,000 securities documents between 2024 and 2025, found mentions of flood-related terms fell nearly 40% while terms related to extreme heat declined 29%.