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The impact of carbon disclosure mandates on emissions and financial operating performance
Downar, Benedikt; Ernstberger, Jürgen; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2020
We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2010
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150444
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The Social Cost of Carbon Revisited
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2016
An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is key to climate policy. But how should we estimate the SCC? A common approach is to use an integrated assessment model (IAM) to simulate time paths for the atmospheric CO2 concentration, its impact on global mean temperature, and the resulting...
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Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
Jaffe, Judson L.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2021
greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism -- an international emission …
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan; Whalley, John - 2021
possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few decades as …
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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
Cristea, Anca D. - 2015
responsible for 33 percent of world-wide trade-related emissions, and over 75 percent of emissions for major manufacturing … production emissions per dollar of exports are 16 percent below the world average, but once we include transport US emissions per … dollar exported are 59 percent above the world average. We use our data to systematically investigate whether trade inclusive …
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An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2014
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Corporate carbon reporting : improving transparency and accountability
Comello, Stephen; Reichelstein, Julia; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2023
Numerous multinational firms have recently pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to a net-zero position by the year 2050. These pledges currently lack a unified measurement and reporting structure, leaving the public unsure about the extent of the corporate commitments. Here, we...
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Corporate carbon reduction pledges : an effective tool to mitigate climate change?
Comello, Stephen; Reichelstein, Julia; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
In the intensifying public debate about limiting the harmful effects of climate change, many global corporations have recently articulated so-called “net-zero” goals for reducing and ultimately eliminating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We first examine the details ofthe carbon...
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