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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen, Eric Owusu Boahen, Cuong Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low-Carbon Industrial Heating in the EU and UK: Integrating Waste Heat Recovery, High-Temperature Heat Pumps, and Hydrogen Technologies

Energies
This research introduces a two-stage, low-carbon industrial heating process, leveraging advanced waste heat recovery (WHR) technologies and exploiting waste heat (WH) to drive decentralised hydrogen production.
Pouriya H. Niknam
doaj   +1 more source

Does Sustainability Auditing Lead to Enhanced Corporate Governance, Environmental Performance, and Financial Outcomes? Empirical Evidence From High‐Impact Industries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs hierarchical regression modelling on a survey of 550 firms from Nigeria and Ghana to examine the impact of sustainability auditing on corporate governance, environmental performance, and financial outcomes of high‐impact industries.
Mandella Osei‐Assibey Bonsu, Ying Wang, Grace Eghe‐Ikhurhe, Katie Hyslop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing the Voltage—Sequencing Decarbonisation with Green Power and Efficiency

Energies
The industrial sector’s increasing electricity demand (direct and indirect), driven by the electrification of processes and the production of green hydrogen, poses significant challenges for achieving decarbonisation goals.
Stefan M. Buettner, Josefine Döpp, Liane Strauch, Marina Gilles, Werner König, Anna-Lena Klingler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Communication of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations and Environmental Legitimacy: Exploratory Insights From Italian Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni, Daniel Lundgaard, Maria Alejandra Torres‐Cuello, Steen Vallentin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Motivates Companies to Take the Decision to Decarbonise?

Energies
What motivates industrial companies to decarbonise? While climate policy has intensified, the specific factors driving corporate decisions remain underexplored.
Stefan M. Buettner, Werner König, Frederick Vierhub-Lorenz, Marina Gilles   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Operation of High-Temperature Heat Pumps Through Sizing and Control of Energy Stored in Integrated Steam Accumulators

Energies
Steam networks are widely used for industrial heat supply. High-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) are an increasingly attractive low-emission solution to traditional steam generation, which could also improve the operational efficiency and energy demand ...
Andrea Vecchi, Jose Hector Bastida Hernandez, Adriano Sciacovelli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decarbonisation at least cost: an analysis of the optimal portfolio of instruments [PDF]

Applied Economic Analysis
Purpose – This paper aims to propose a methodology for assessing an optimal portfolio of investment instruments that minimise the social costs of decarbonising economic activity while improving the environmental objectives proposed in EU legislation ...
Francisco Álvarez, Óscar Arnedillo, Diego Rodríguez, Jorge Sanz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathways to Net Zero Emissions – An Australian Perspective on Rapid Decarbonisation

, 2023
Limiting global average warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (1.5°C) by 2100 necessitates a rapid transformation of global economic and social systems that will leave no country unaffected.
Whitten, Stuart, Cook, Sally, Brinsmead, Thomas S, Verikios, George, Reedman, Luke, Kember, Olivia, Khandoker, Taj, Rodriguez, Shelley, Green, David   +8 more
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