Collaborative Research: Corporate Net Zero Goals for Decarbonization

合作研究：企业脱碳净零目标

• 批准号: 2319900
• 负责人: Ion Vasi
• 金额: $ 28.35万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319900&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Corporate; Net; Zero

To mitigate climate change, a growing coalition of governments, businesses, and other institutions have adopted “net zero” goals and engaged in decarbonization, an energy transition process that results from the replacement of fuels with high carbon content by those with low carbon content. This project examines three interrelated questions: Why are some companies communicating their adoption of different types of net zero goals while others are not? What activities are associated with net zero goals? What are the outcomes of net zero communication and activities on firms’ financial performance and media coverage? This project benefits society by exploring the factors that shape businesses’ involvement in the development of the market for clean energy.The project constructs three datasets. First, a corporate decarbonization communication dataset includes all corporate communications related to net zero and climate change mitigation goals for U.S. Fortune 1000 companies during the 2015-2024 period. Researchers collect these data by searching firms’ websites and annual reports and coding corporate communication of general climate change mitigation statements and specific net zero goals. Second, investigators collect data on corporate decarbonization activities by applying text analysis to the corporate decarbonization communication dataset and by collecting information from third parties. Third, a corporate decarbonization media coverage dataset draws from all articles from major newspapers that mention climate change and net zero during the 2015-2024 period. Researchers extract the full text of all climate and environment-related major news articles associated with each of these firms, and filter, clean, and code these articles. These are then converted into annual indicators and analyzed using panel-based statistical methods.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

为了减轻气候变化，越来越多的政府，企业和其他机构的联盟采用了“零净”目标并参与脱碳，这是一种能源过渡过程，这是由于低碳含量的人替换具有高碳含量的燃料。该项目考试三个相互关联的问题：为什么有些公司传达其采用不同类型的零净目标而其他公司的采用？哪些活动与零净目标有关？零净沟通以及公司财务业绩和媒体报道的活动的结果是什么？该项目通过探索塑造业务参与清洁能源市场发展的因素来使社会受益。该项目构建了三个数据集。首先，公司脱碳通信数据集包括与2015 - 2024年期间美国财富1000家公司的净零净和气候变化目标相关的所有公司通信。研究人员通过搜索公司的网站和年度报告以及对一般气候变化缓解措施和特定净零目标的公司通信进行编码来收集这些数据。其次，调查人员通过将文本分析应用于公司脱碳通信数据集并通过收集第三方的信息来收集有关公司脱碳活动的数据。第三，企业脱碳媒体报道数据集从主要报纸的所有文章中汲取了借助，这些报纸在2015 - 2024年期间提到气候变化和净零。研究人员提取了与这些公司中的每个公司相关的所有气候和环境相关的主要新闻文章的全文，并过滤，清洁和编码这些文章。然后将这些转换为年度指标，并使用基于面板的统计方法进行分析。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准的评估来支持的。