This paper examines corporate responses to climate change in relation to the development of reporting mechanisms for greenhouse gases, more specifically carbon disclosure. It first presents some background and context on the evolution of carbon trading and disclosure, and then develops a...

Internal carbon pricing by corporations is a relatively new tool in carbon management. Using a sample of 1,274 firms from 45 countries and across 43 industries reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (the CDP) during the years, 2015 to 2018, this study uses carbon emissions intensity ratios...

Governments and markets have thus far failed to adequately address the growing global threat to climate stability from human activity. Some businesses are emerging as active leaders in the mitigation of this threat, but they are hampered by incentives that work against their efforts to reduce...

Employing an international sample of 29,889 firms across 67 economies spanning 2007 to 2018, this paper investigates the impact of climate change on corporate tax avoidance. Empirical results show that higher climate risk is associated with higher tax avoidance. Further analysis suggests that...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind this century. If left unchecked, it is likely to result in more frequent and severe climatic events, with the potential to cause substantial disruption to our economies, businesses and livelihoods in the coming decades. Yet the...

We document that climate uncertainty negatively affects corporate investment. The effect is more pronounced for firms with higher capital intensity, higher operating inflexibility, and less redeployable capital. Our results are robust to using an instrumental variable approach and to using...

Using data from 41 different countries including the United States, we provide novel empiricalevidence that firms increase their cash holdings as a response to climate risk. This effect is drivenby financially constrained firms and becomes significantly stronger after the release of the...