 Accounting for carbon and reframing disclosure: A business model approachColin Haslam, John Butlin, Tord Andersson, John Malamatenios and Glen Lehman Accounting forum, 2014, vol. 38, issue 3, 200-211 Abstract: This paper contributes to the research in accounting and the debate about the nature of carbon footprint reporting for society. This paper utilises numbers and narratives to explore changes in carbon footprint using UK national carbon emissions data for the period 1990–2009 and six years (2006–2011) of carbon emissions data for the FTSE 100 group of companies and a case study that focuses on the UK mixed grocery sector. Our argument is that existing approaches to framing carbon disclosure generate malleable, inconsistent and irreconcilable numbers and narratives. In this paper we argue for an alternative framing of carbon disclosure informed by a reporting entities business model. Specifically, we suggest, that a reporting entity disclose its carbon–material stakeholder relations. This alternative, we argue, would increase the visibility of carbon generating stakeholder relations and avoid some of the difficulties and arbitrariness associated with framing carbon disclosure around a reporting entity boundary where judgements have to be made about responsibility and operational control. Keywords: Carbon footprint; Business model; Carbon disclosure; Sustainability accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:accfor:v:38:y:2014:i:3:p:200-211 DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2014.04.002 Access Statistics for this article Accounting forum is currently edited by Glen Lehman More articles in Accounting forum from Elsevier |
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