We examine the interrelationships among executive compensation, environmental-social-governance-based (ESG) sustainable compensation policy, carbon performance and market value. Using one of the largest datasets to-date, consisting of 4,379 firm-year observations covering a period of 15 years...

We explore the association between CEO compensation and carbon risk using firm level emission data for US firms between 2010 and 2018. Our results show that firm’s carbon risk is positively associated with CEO’s total compensation, implying that CEO total pay (equity pay) increases by 0.17%...