A major goal of the environmental movement is to conserve or improve the natural environment, but evidence showing that environmental mobilization produces positive environmental outcomes is mixed. This paper addresses a fundamental question about the relative impact of pro-environmental...

How have Australian social movement actors sought sway in the political contest over climate change 2007-2013? This paper traces shifting movement strategies during a protracted period of political contestation over climate change and fossil fuels in Australia. It reveals the strategies and...

Our study focuses on the Social Cost of Carbon in Relation to Climate Risk. Since information on the social cost of carbon and its effects on the climate is not easily accessible, we searched the internet for pertinent data sets. We have information on emissions from 470 oil and gas companies in...

In this paper, we examine the trade-offs firms make in their voluntary disclosure decisions following negative media coverage of climate change incidents. We combine a keyword discovery algorithm and a fine-tuned BERT model to identify “hard” and “soft” climate disclosures on Twitter. We...

We examine whether a firm’s operating inflexibility affects its carbon footprint. Using a large sample of firms from 30 countries over the 2003–2021 period, we provide first evidence that operating inflexibility reduces firms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The negative effect of...

The objectives of this study are to (i) examine the relationship between accounting conservatism and climate-related risk disclosure (CRRD) in the context of Egypt, and (ii) look into the moderating role of earnings quality (EQ) in such a relationship. To operationalize CRRD reported by Egyptian...