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Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies
Measuring the value chain carbon footprints of listed companies is essential for cumulative climate actions and climate-efficient capital allocation. We trace the carbon emissions embodied in the value chains of Chinese listed companies and find that there is an increasing trend in terms of the carb...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10188601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37193691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38479-5 |
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author | Zhang, Zengkai Li, Jiaoyan Guan, Dabo |
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description | Measuring the value chain carbon footprints of listed companies is essential for cumulative climate actions and climate-efficient capital allocation. We trace the carbon emissions embodied in the value chains of Chinese listed companies and find that there is an increasing trend in terms of the carbon footprints of listed companies over the period 2010–2019. In 2019, the direct emissions from these companies reached 1.9 billion tonnes, accounting for 18.3% of national emissions. The indirect emissions were well over twice as large as the direct emissions from 2010 to 2019. Energy, construction and finance companies tend to have a greater volume of value chain carbon footprints, yet the distribution of their carbon footprints varies significantly. Finally, we apply the results to evaluate the financed emissions of leading asset managers’ equity portfolio investment in China’s stock market. |
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spelling | pubmed-101886012023-05-18 Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies Zhang, Zengkai Li, Jiaoyan Guan, Dabo Nat Commun Article Measuring the value chain carbon footprints of listed companies is essential for cumulative climate actions and climate-efficient capital allocation. We trace the carbon emissions embodied in the value chains of Chinese listed companies and find that there is an increasing trend in terms of the carbon footprints of listed companies over the period 2010–2019. In 2019, the direct emissions from these companies reached 1.9 billion tonnes, accounting for 18.3% of national emissions. The indirect emissions were well over twice as large as the direct emissions from 2010 to 2019. Energy, construction and finance companies tend to have a greater volume of value chain carbon footprints, yet the distribution of their carbon footprints varies significantly. Finally, we apply the results to evaluate the financed emissions of leading asset managers’ equity portfolio investment in China’s stock market. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10188601/ /pubmed/37193691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38479-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Zengkai Li, Jiaoyan Guan, Dabo Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title | Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title_full | Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title_fullStr | Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title_full_unstemmed | Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title_short | Value chain carbon footprints of Chinese listed companies |
title_sort | value chain carbon footprints of chinese listed companies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10188601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37193691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38479-5 |
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