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| Title |
Carbon emissions and company performance
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| Author |
Scheuer, Michael William
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| Department |
Department of Economics and Business
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| Institution |
Colorado College
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| Degree Type |
bachelor
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| Degree Name |
Bachelor of Arts
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| Type of Resource |
text
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| Digital Origin |
reformatted digital
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| Date Accepted |
2009
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| Date Digitized |
2009
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| Abstract |
As the world enters a low carbon economy, companies must begin recognizing carbon emissions as a risk to doing business. This paper develops several regression models that test the effects of carbon emissions on company performance, whether or not carbon-intensive industries have been hurt, and the ability of the carbon to revenue ratio to capture a firm's risk exposure from carbon emissions. Carbon emissions data comes from the Carbon Disclosure Project and company performance data comes from Mergent Online. The paper concludes that carbon emissions are a liability to company performance, but carbon intensive industries have not been adversely affected. The carbon to revenue ratio does have a negative impact on company performance and may be used by companies as a measure of carbon efficiency.
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| Keywords |
Carbon emissions
Company performance
Climate change
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| Rights Statement |
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact the author for permission to publish.
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| Extent |
42 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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| Note (thesis) |
Senior Thesis -- Colorado College
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| Note (bibliography) |
Bibliography : p. 40-42
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| Language |
eng
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| OCLC Identifier |
436878535
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| Handle |
http://hdl.handle.net/10176/coccc:1328
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