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Accidents Waiting to Happen: Liability Policy and Toxic Pollution Releases [PDF]

open access: yes
Proponents of environmental policies based on liability assert that strict liability imposed on the polluter will induce firms to handle hazardous wastes properly and to avoid disposing them into the environment. Economic theory and a few well-publicized
Austin, David, Alberini, Anna
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From Text to Value: Measuring and Pricing Firm Climate Risk Exposure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how the prominence and tone of climate risk disclosures affect firm value and strategic climate positioning for large European nonfinancial companies. We developed a firm‐level climate risk exposure (CRE) index that assesses climate risks within corporate narratives across four EU categories: transition risk, physical risk ...
Stefano Dell'Atti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides novel evidence on the role of supply chain networks in influencing firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and financial performance. Our analysis employs financial, board, ESG and supply chain data, resulting in an unbalanced panel of over 16,000 firm‐year observations from 3028 publicly traded US firms ...
Michail Filippidis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of the effective components in liability and compensation for marine pollution in the light of international law

open access: yesAnthropogenic Pollution
The current work aimed to identify factors affecting liability and compensation for marine pollution in Iran. This applied research was conducted using a grounded theory and descriptive-analytical method.
Nahid Seyrafian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autonomous vehicles and the issue of liability for damage caused by the movement of such a vehicle

open access: yes, 2023
Objectives The aim of the article was to discuss the development of a model of civil liability for damage caused by an automated or fully automated vehicle.
Ewa Jędrzejewska
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CEO Risk Orientation and Environmental Sustainability Disclosure: Managerial Discretion, Institutional Constraints, and Strategic Transparency

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether CEO risk orientation shapes environmental sustainability disclosure (ESD) and how institutional constraints condition this relationship. We argue that environmental disclosure constitutes a strategic exposure decision because greater transparency can increase regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder pressure.
Muhammad Jameel Hussain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different Regime Applied to Liability for Oil Pollution Damage

open access: yesJurnal Hukum & Pembangunan, 1999
With regard to its reaction or probably overreaction to the disastrous incident of oil spill from"Exxon Valdez" in Alaska, the United States of America put into law Oil Pollution Acts 1990 (OPA 1990). This Acts establishes a new liability and compensation regime for oil pollution damagefrom ship operations, which is different from the regime adopted by
openaire   +2 more sources

Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental damage. For an implementation of the companies' liability. Remedial perspectives

open access: yes, 2020
Under almost all European legislation, the detection of a polluted area gives rise - primarily and where possible-to an obligation to undertake safety and reclamation activity.
Landi Roberta
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From Pigou to Extended Liability: On the Optimal Taxation of Externalities Under Imperfect Financial Markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Pigovian taxation of externalities has limited appeal if the tortfeaser has insufficient resources to pay the damage when it occurs. To defend Pigovian taxation in the presence of judgement-proof agents, its proponents point at the many institutions ...
JEAN TIROLE, TIROLE, Jean
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