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In this paper, I estimate the effect of mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure on corporate value. Using the introduction of mandatory GHG emissions reporting for firms listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange as a source of exogenous variation, I find that firms most...
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Maritime industry transports over 90% of traded cargo annually and accounts for 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Asia and the Pacific region process 64% of global cargo, has 9 of the largest 10 ports globally, and provide over 65% of seafarers employed in the industry to support...
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The Republic of Korea fully launched its green finance scheme in 2009 and then introduced the environmental information … Government of the Republic of Korea is making efforts to change the energy mix by decreasing the share of nuclear energy and … Republic of Korea, such as commercial banks, private equity funds, and so forth. Changing the energy mix needs a huge fund, so …
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I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...
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The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
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"Tradable permit regulations have recently been implemented for climate change policy in many countries. One of the first mandatory markets was the EU Emission Trading System, whose first phase ran from 2005-07. Unlike taxes, permits expose firms to volatility in regulatory costs, but are...
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For most organizations, the vast amount of carbon emissions occur in their supply chain and in the post-sale processing, usage, and end of life treatment of a product, collectively labelled scope 3 emissions. In this paper, we train machine learning algorithms on 15 reported types of scope 3...
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Global economic convergence and protection of the climate are both worthwhile goals. Yet, there is an inherent tension between them. Greenhouse gases are a waste product that is often emitted in the production process. Limiting such emissions therefore hampers the accumulation of income and...
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