Company: WKC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-007620
Chunk: 153

Company: WORLD KINECT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 153
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 to comply with their contractual obligations under bond hedge transactions, we would (i) be exposed to greater dilution with respect to their respective portion of the hedge, to the extent that our stock price exceeded the nominal conversion price upon conversion, (ii) may suffer adverse tax consequences, or (iii) incur additional costs associated with entering into a replacement bond hedge transaction with a different bond hedge counterparty.

Legal & Regulatory Risks

Climate change and the market and regulatory responses relating to GHG emissions could have a significant impact on our business operations and financial results. 

Climate change continues to attract considerable public and scientific attention throughout the world. As a result, numerous proposals have been adopted and will likely continue to be made at various levels of governments globally to monitor and limit GHG emissions, reduce the use of hydrocarbon-based fuels or require substantial additional and costly disclosure relating to emissions. These efforts have included consideration of cap-and-trade regimes, carbon taxes, trade tariffs, minimum renewable usage requirements, restrictive permitting, increased efficiency standards, and incentives or mandates for renewable energy. 

In the U.S., various federal, state and local laws and regulations have been enacted relating to GHG emissions. However, the direction of future U.S. climate change regulations is difficult to predict given the potential for policy changes under different Presidential administrations and changing Congressional leadership. It is unclear the extent to which any new environmental laws or regulations, or any repeal of existing environmental laws or regulations, will impact our business or that of our customers.

Additionally, in August 2022 the IRA was signed into law, which appropriates significant federal funding for renewable energy initiatives and, for the first time, imposes a fee on GHG emissions from certain facilities in the oil and natural gas sector. The emissions fee and renewable and low carbon energy funding provisions of the law could accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels or otherwise adversely impact the use of petroleum-based motor fuels, which could in turn have an indirect adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

There have also been significant governmental incentives and consumer pressures to increase the use of alternative fuels. Automotive, industrial and power generation manufacturers are developing more fuel-efficient engines, hybrid engines and alternative clean power systems. Several automobile manufacturers have announced goals to substantially increase the proportion of their new vehicle sales from battery electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Further, in August 2022, the California Air Resources Board finalized its Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) program, including requiring an increasing percentage of new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero emission