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What Are the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives on Carbon Dioxide Emissions?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What Are the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives on Carbon Dioxide Emissions?/
Author:	Loeffler, Caitlyn.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	41 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-12.
Subject:	Public policy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27835051
ISBN:	9798645493837

What Are the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives on Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
Loeffler, Caitlyn.

What Are the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives on Carbon Dioxide Emissions? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 41 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.

Thesis (M.P.P.)--Georgetown University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, describes a myriad of corporate citizenship practices that firms use to engage the community, employees, and impact the environment. An ever-evolving sphere of firm-specific activities that continues to expand the methods firms use to engage in the social impact space, the overall impact of these activities is not yet entirely known in the United States, especially when it comes to their impact on environmental practices. Literature has shown the impact of CSR activities on financial aspects of firm performance and on global greenhouse gas emissions, demonstrating that CSR can moderately decrease overall greenhouse gas emissions. This thesis looks to see the impact of CSR environmental activities by United States companies on reduction of overall greenhouse gas emissions. These CSR activities are reported and measured through Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) indicators, which are measures derived from categorical and discrete factors. Focusing on the environmental self-reporting done by firms in the United States and controlling for other variables that relate to the effects of carbon dioxide emissions, CO2 emissions are regressed on factors that relate to these emissions including firm size and financial information to determine whether or not these voluntary activities contribute to the overall lowering of these emissions. The resulting regression has mixed results, showing an overall increase in CO2 emissions when regressed on the overall environmental score, but showing a decreased emission when regressed on a key variable, the presence of a CSR committee. Because of the overall explanatory power of the second model, it is recommended that these second results be implemented in a policy plan similar to that taking place in the European Union, which includes CSR as a mandated approach to emission reduction in line with its sustainability goals.

ISBN: 9798645493837Subjects--Topical Terms:

532803
Public policy.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Corporate social responsibility

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