The determinants of voluntary climate change disclosure commitment and quality in the banking industry

Jérôme Caby, Ydriss Ziane and Eric Lamarque

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020, vol. 161, issue C

Abstract: Banks are both impacted by climate change and crucial for the implementation of sound practices and behaviors to combat climate change. The aim of this research is to identify the determinants of banks’ voluntary climate change disclosure and the quality of that disclosure. Using data on 117 banks from 40 developed and developed countries around the world, we use ordinary least square regression and multivariate logit analysis to show that country-level and bank-level characteristics are much better predictors of bank commitment to voluntary carbon disclosure initiatives and environmental scores than they are of carbon disclosure quality. Banks want to project themselves as good citizens when they are located in a developed and environmentally friendly country, profitable, less risky, and subject to multiple-listing constraints. However, the picture is unclear when it comes to the implementation of rigorous carbon disclosure. This study extends the current state of knowledge on the impacts of size and country-level characteristics on carbon disclosure, finding that size and national context are not independent of carbon disclosure.

Keywords: Carbon disclosure project; Corporate social responsibility; Climate change; Bank; Voluntary disclosure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120282

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