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.

为了缓解气候变化，越来越多的政府、企业和其他机构联盟采取了“净零”目标并参与脱碳，这是一种能源转型过程，是用低碳含量的燃料替代高碳含量的燃料。该项目研究了三个相互关联的问题：为什么有些公司正在沟通采用不同类型的净零目标，而其他公司却没有？哪些活动与净零目标相关？净零沟通和活动对公司财务绩效有何影响？和媒体报道？这个项目通过探索因素造福社会？该项目构建了三个数据集，企业脱碳通信数据集包括 2015 年美国财富 1000 强公司与净零排放和气候变化缓解目标相关的所有企业通信。 2024 年期间，研究人员通过搜索企业网站和年度报告以及对一般气候变化缓解声明和具体净零目标的企业沟通进行编码来收集这些数据。其次，调查人员通过对企业进行文本分析来收集有关企业脱碳活动的数据。第三，企业脱碳媒体报道数据集来自主要报纸上所有提及气候变化和净零的文章，研究人员提取了2015-2024年期间所有气候和环境的全文。与这些公司相关的主要新闻文章，并对这些文章进行过滤、清理和编码，然后将这些文章转换为年度指标，并使用基于面板的统计方法进行分析。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。通过评估提供支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。