Economics of Energy and Climate Change: Origins, Developments and Growth

27 p.

Climate Change and Its Socioeconomic Importance

25 p.

What happened during the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen 2009?

4 p.

The Role of Regions in Climate Change Policy

28 p.

The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact

This paper aims to investigate companies' environmental, social, governance (ESG), and financial implications of their commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The focus is placed on companies operating in the three countries with the highest number of UNGC participants: Spain, France, and Japan. The results clearly reveal that adoption of the UNGC often requires an organizational change that fosters stakeholder engagement, ultimately resulting in improvements in companies' ESG performance. Additionally, the results reveal that ESG performance has a significant impact on financial performance for companies that adopted the principles of the UNGC. These findings provide both non-financial and financial incentives to companies to commit to this voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, which will have important implications on companies' strategic management policies that aim to foster sustainable businesses and community development. Finally, the linkages between the UNGC-committed companies' ESG and financial performance may be influenced by geographical spread, mainly due to the appearance of differences in the institutional, societal, and cultural settings.

Analysis and Use of Information and Communication Tools in Economics of Climate Change

16 p.

International Support of Climate Change Policies in Developing Countries: Strategic, Moral and Fairness Aspects

33 p.

Climate Change, Responsibilities, and Defeatism and Complacency

16 p.

Climate Change and Knowledge Communities

19 p.

Modeling the Links between Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing in the Context of Climate Change: Results from an Econometric Analysis on the European Forest Ecosystems

25 p.

Local air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis

25 p.

How are Italian and Spanish cities tackling climate change? A local comparative study

27 p.