提高标准:企业气候目标的雄心水平由什么决定?

IF 4.8 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Climatic Change Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI:10.1007/s10584-024-03783-6
Clara Privato, Matthew P. Johnson, Timo Busch
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自 "基于科学的目标"(SBTi)倡议推出以来,我们看到承诺实现大规模减少温室气体(GHG)排放的气候目标的公司数量稳步增长。虽然最近的研究提出了制定气候目标的各种方法(如部门去碳化方法、近期、长期、净零),但我们仍然不了解决定企业在制定目标时所表现出的雄心水平的解释性因素。本文以五个国家的 22 家公司为样本,分两个阶段进行了定性研究。首先,根据目标类型、范围、时间框架和温度一致性这四个目标雄心标准,对这些公司公开披露的气候目标进行评估。其次,在对访谈内容进行分析时,确定了目标设定的多种解释因素,以了解这些因素在目标水平中的出现程度。研究结果表明,在气候目标雄心勃勃的公司中,某些因素非常重要,包括领导层的参与、管理层的持续支持、员工的参与、气候倡议的参与以及利益相关者的合作。相反,在气候目标不那么远大的公司中,这些关键因素的存在程度都不高。相反,这些公司强烈认为,与市场相关的压力和非市场利益相关者的影响是其目标设定背后的驱动力。本文通过扩展我们对不同企业气候目标雄心水平的解释因素的理解,为有关企业应对气候变化的文献做出了贡献。
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Raising the bar: What determines the ambition level of corporate climate targets?

Since the launch of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), we have witnessed a steady increase in the number of companies committing to climate targets for large-scale reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While recent studies present various methodologies for establishing climate targets (e.g., sectoral decarbonization approach, near-term, long-term, net zero), we still don’t understand the explanatory factors determining the level of ambition companies demonstrate in target setting. In this paper, a two-stage qualitative study is conducted with a sample of 22 companies from five countries. First, these companies’ publicly disclosed climate targets are evaluated according to four target ambition criteria: target type, scope, timeframe, and temperature alignment. Secondly, multiple explanatory factors for target setting were identified during the content analysis of the interviews to see how present these factors appear in the ambition levels. Within companies with highly ambitious climate targets, the findings indicate that certain factors are highly present, including leadership engagement, continual management support, employee involvement, participation in climate initiatives, and stakeholder collaboration. Conversely, none of these key factors are highly present in companies with less ambitious climate targets. Rather, these companies strongly identify the initiating factors of market-related pressures and non-market stakeholder influence as being the driving forces behind their target setting. This paper contributes to the literature on corporate responses to climate change by expanding our understanding of explanatory factors for different corporate climate target ambition levels.

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Climatic Change
Climatic Change 环境科学-环境科学
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10.20
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4.20%
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180
审稿时长
7.5 months
期刊介绍: Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate-related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.
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