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Episode 143
Corporate Climate Disclosure in China
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Today's episode looks at the complex topic of corporate climate disclosures. Our guests today are Erica Downs, Ned Downie, and Lou Yushan. They are the authors of a recent report, published by the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), entitled “China’s Climate Disclosure Regime: How Regulations, Politics, and Investors Shape Corporate Climate Reporting.”
Erica Downs is a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University; Edmund Downie is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; and Yushan Lou is a Research Associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Topics we discuss:
How disclosures on ESG and carbon emissions differ in Hong Kong versus the mainland, and for listed versus unlisted firms
The differing incentives SOEs have for making public climate disclosures
The value of such disclosures for policy, given that policy-makers have so many other command-and-control instruments on climate policy and ways of obtaining emissions or climate-related information from the largest emitters
The ways investors can and do influence Chinese firms, including SOEs, to improve climate disclosures
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Environment China is a bilingual podcast featuring conversations with advocates, entrepreneurs, and experts working in the sustainability field in China for both Chinese and international audiences. So far, we have released 143 episodes already. You can listen to them on Environment China's official website, BEN's WeChat Account, or Google/Apple/Spotify Podcast.
「环境中国」是北京能源网络在2017年成立的中英双语播客栏目，至今已发布143集。在每一期节目中，我们将邀请到中外环境和能源领域的研究学者、创新创业者以及行业专家与大家分享他们的独到见解和经历。您可在环境中国官网、BEN公众号、以及谷歌/苹果/Spotify播客收听到我们的节目。
