recently articulated so-called “net-zero” goals for reducing and ultimately eliminating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We … measurement of carbon footprints. Particular sources of variation arise from how “gross emissions” are determined and from firms …’ willingness to recognize carbon credits that offset their own emissions. …

emissions at small compliance costs for OECD countries rising some hopes that the U.S. might rejoin the Kyoto Protocol during … facilitate future commitments for an effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that must aim at the incorporation of the …

impact of mitigation and adaptation finance on national emissions of recipient countries. We test the derived hypothesis … using carbon emissions data of non-OECD countries in the last 20 years. We find that public adaptation and mitigation … finance tend to increase emissions. Private mitigation finance seems to reduce them only after five years following the …

extract more rapidly which increases present carbon dioxide emissions and accelerates global warming. Our results suggest that … future carbon taxes may even decrease present emissions if resource owners face increasing marginal extraction costs and if … less emissions in the present. …

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 mandate reduced their emissions - depending on the specification - by an …