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Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...
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We introduce a method that identifies firm-level climate change exposure from conversations in the earnings conference calls of more than 10,000 firms from 34 countries between 2002 and 2019. The method adapts a machine learning keyword discovery algorithm and captures exposures related to...
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Federal banking regulators are grappling with how to confront the threats posed by climate change. There are increasingly loud calls for regulators to adjust the “risk-weights” used to calculate banks’ minimum capital requirements based on how exposed their counterparties are to...
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) issues as matters of strategy and statutorily attribute substantive competence for such matters not to the shareholders … shareholders’ actual power to take up the task that financial law gives them, and there is currently no European or international … shareholders meeting to amend the company’s constitutional documents …
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Four years ago in Cancun, the parties to the UNFCCC gathered around for two major decisions. To support developing countries in responding to climate change, the parties agreed to scale up climate finance to 100 billion dollars per year by 2020, and to establish a dedicated fund for climate...
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