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Lending in the Warming Globe : Carbon Emissions and Bank Loans
Kim, Jeong-Bon - 2019
We examine whether and how lending banks around the world respond to borrowers' carbon emissions – the major …
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Operating Inflexibility and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : International Evidence
El Ghoul, Sadok; Guedhami, Omrane; Saadi, Samir; Sassi, … - 2023
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...
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Board Ancestral Diversity and Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosure
Barg, Johannes A.; Drobetz, Wolfgang; El Ghoul, Sadok; … - 2022
Prior research suggests that the disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—a primary cause of climate change—affects firm valuation. In this paper, we provide new insights into the determinants of the voluntary disclosure of GHG emissions. We show that board ancestral diversity has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309645
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Economic Development, Climate Change and the Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility
Toms, Steve - 2014
powerful market forces which drive increasing consumption of the world's resources. In particular the strong association … between oil consumption, world and sustainable population, peak oil poses as strong a challenge to economic growth as does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059728
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Corporate Responses in an Emerging Climate Regime : The Institutionalization and Commensuration of Carbon Disclosure
Kolk, Ans; Levy, David L.; Pinkse, Jonatan - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214663
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Responding to Climate Change Crises : Firms’ Tradeoffs
Fritsch, Felix; Zhang, Qi; Zheng, Xiang - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352804
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CSR Disclosure and Benchmarking-Learning : Emissions Responses to Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Disclosure
Tomar, Sorabh - 2019
Examining the US Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, I find that facilities reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7.0% after mandatory disclosure of facility-level emissions. A facility's prior GHG inefficiency predicts subsequent GHG emissions reductions, but only after public disclosure occurs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863451
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Impact of energy innovation on greenhouse gas emissions : moderation of regional integration and social inequality in Asian economies
Sinha, Avik; Shah, Muhammad Ibrahim; Mehta, Atul; … - 2022
countries are trying to realize the potential of energy innovation. However, several structural issues might deter the expected … impact of energy innovation on GHG emissions. Given the ecologically unsustainable economic growth trajectory of Asian … countries, achieving the full potential of energy innovation is necessary, and therefore an efficient development and diffusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807611
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Does innovation respond to climate change? : empirical evidence from patents and greenhouse gas emissions
Su, Hsin-Ning; Moaniba, Igam M. - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 122 (2017), pp. 49-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889917
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Effect of low-carbon innovation on carbon risk : international firm-level investigation
Han, Liyan; Xie, Chen; Jin, Jiayu; Zhao, Yang - In: International review of financial analysis 90 (2023), pp. 1-16
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