scholarly journals Greenwashing of Local Government: The Human-Caused Risks in the Process of Environmental Information Disclosure in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhong Tang ◽  
Rui Yang ◽  
Yingwen Chen ◽  
Mengjin Du ◽  
Yichen Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Research Gap

The increasing occurrences of greenwashing pose great risks to environmental protection. The current studies mainly focused on corporate greenwashing, and few paid attention to the greenwashing of the local government (GLG), thus lacking methods to identify the risks of forming the GLG and finding practicable countermeasures. This paper tries to fill the research gap in the study of the GLG by analyzing human factors. Given that the GLG is in close relationship with environmental governance pressures related to environmental information disclosure (EID), this paper attempts to analyze the human-caused risks of forming the GLG in the process of EID. This work focused on the process analysis, examined the human causes that form the GLG in the stages of collecting, medium, and disseminating of environmental information (EI), and offered countermeasures embedded with resilience accordingly.

scholarly journals Will environmental information disclosure bring economic inflow to enterprises? —— Based on the investigation of audit fees

2020 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 02012
Author(s):  
Ping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure

With the gradual deterioration of climate and environment, countries are becoming increasingly vigilant and repulsive to the economic development mode at the cost of energy consumption. It has become a new development trend to seek new alternative energy sources and pursue green and environment-friendly sustainable development mode. Environmental protection behaviors are generally considered to have positive external effects. This paper examines whether the environmental protection behaviors of A listed company have positive effects on the company based on the data related to environmental information disclosure from 2014 to 2017, and also examines the attitude of external supervision represented by independent auditing towards the company’s environmental protection behaviors. It is enlightening to encourage listed companies to save energy and protect the environment.

scholarly journals Information Disclosure in Environmental Risk Management: Developments in China

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur P. J. Mol ◽  
Guizhen He ◽  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Environmental Risk Management ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Environmental Agencies

Entering the twenty-first century, China has been the site of many serious environmental disasters and accidents. These have strengthened the call for the establishment of an environmental risk management system and for the development of new policies to effectively manage risk. Among the new policies in China's environmental risk management strategy are pollution insurance and information disclosure. This paper explores information disclosure policies through the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree by governmental authorities and companies. In both 2008 and 2010, we reviewed the websites of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, conducted experiments in requesting information disclosure, and held interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus. We conclude that the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree is improving but still far from widespread, full and effective. The lack of enforcement and the ambiguity of some clauses in the decree give provincial environmental agencies great discretion to avoid disclosure and discourages enforcement of company environmental information disclosure. Implementation shortcomings of the decree are also related to the longstanding closeness, secrecy and monopoly of information in China's political system.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Environmental Information Disclosure and Profitability: A Comparison between Different Disclosure Styles

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Yin ◽  
Mingyu Li ◽  
Yuan Ma ◽  
Qiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Least Square Method ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Corporate Managers ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Relationship

Combined with the existing research gap, this paper divides firms’ environmental information disclosure styles into two types: Substantive style and symbolic style. This paper elaborates on the relationship between environmental information disclosure and firms’ profitability of these two disclosure types and tests this relationship using the data from 676 firms employed from the heave-polluting industry. Considering the endogenous and heteroscedasticity problems, 2-stage least squares method and weighted least square method were adopted. The results showed that (1) positive relationships exist between environmental information disclosure and profitability for both types; and (2) the contribution of symbolic-style disclosure to profitability is larger than that of substantive-style disclosure. These findings are important for corporate managers and highlight some policy implications in developing countries.

scholarly journals Government Environmental Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6854
Author(s):  
Xiaoya Zhu ◽  
Yunli Zhu ◽  
Xiaohua Meng
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Western China ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure

Government environmental information disclosure (GEID) is a key policy instrument in environmental governance. Local governments in China are improving the disclosure level of environmental information, but does the environmental information disclosed by local governments reflect the existing state of the local ecological environment? This paper analyzes the correlation between GEID and environmental performance and verifies whether or not the environmental information disclosed by local governments can reflect actual local ecological environment conditions. Based on data from Chinese cities, this paper adopts a multiple regression method, and the results show that the environmental information disclosed by governments can reflect the local environmental performance as a whole, and the higher the level of GEID, the better the local environmental performance; but the relationship between the two has significant regional differences. In eastern China, the higher the level of GEID, the better the local environmental performance. In central and western China, the correlation between GEID and environmental performance is not significant. In addition, it should be noted that the correlation between the level of GEID and the emission intensity of water pollutants is not significant in all regions. This study contributes to further clarifying the effectiveness of GEID policy and identifying a breakthrough for the optimization of environmental policies faced with the dilemma of serious environmental pollution and urgent economic development needs.

Framework Design of Cloud Computing Based Environmental Information Disclosure Platform

2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 1997-2003
Author(s):  
Wei Hua Zeng ◽  
Long Quan Yu ◽  
Lin Jia Zhao ◽  
Xiao Hong Zhong ◽  
Kun Peng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Innovation Model

In order to promote multi-directional exchanges among environmental management departments, enterprises and public to improve capacity of environmental information disclosure, environmental governance open innovation model based on environmental information disclosure should be established to take advantage of the public pressures of environmental governance to promote improvement of environmental behavior of enterprises and government departments. Environmental governance open innovation model is based on the public access to environmental information, thereby establishing a comprehensive environmental information platform is essential. By taking advantage of cloud computing technology features of ultra-large-scale, high scalability and on-demand services, a cloud computing based environment information platform will be established to meet needs of public access to environmental information and environmental participation. The platform can customize different services for different users, and promote the development of environmental governance mode to achieve the improvement of environmental quality.

scholarly journals Incentives for Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure in China: Public Media Pressure, Local Government Supervision and Interactive Effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10016
Author(s):  
Jia Xue ◽  
Youshi He ◽  
Ming Liu ◽  
Yin Tang ◽  
Hanyang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Government Supervision ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
The Government

Disclosing environmental information is essential for listed firms to demonstrate social conscience. To fulfill government and public media supervision, Chinese listed firms are increasing the quality and quantity of disclosed environmental information. This elicits a new topic of interest: the correlation between media/government supervision and corporate environmental information disclosure (EID). The paper addresses this issue through data analysis and factor correlation study in data from some high-pollution firms in China during 2017–2019. The study first introduces a standardized definition for the quantification of media and government supervision, as well as the degree to which the corporation discloses the environmental information. Then, the correlations between the factors are isolated and refined to three sub-topics: (1) how public media and local government supervision affect the quality of corporate EID; (2) how is the interactive effect of public media and government supervision related to corporate EID; (3) how is the distinct ownership of corporate affect the government supervision on corporate EID. The concluding result from the above factor analysis could provide guidance for authorities to adjust certain laws and regulations so that the media and government supervision better motivates the corporate EID, and furthermore, better sustainable development of ecological environment.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Information Disclosure Affect the Sustainable Development of Enterprises: The Role of Green Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 11064
Author(s):  
Dameng Hu ◽  
Yuanzhe Huang ◽  
Changbiao Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Promoting Effect ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
High Level

Along with command-and-control and market-incentive environmental regulation policies, environmental information disclosure (EID) is an important measure used by the Chinese government to implement environmental governance. In the context of advocating for corporate sustainable development and green governance, this study uses data from China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies in heavily polluting industries spanning 2008–2019 to empirically explore the relationship between corporate EID and green innovation (GI). The results reveal the following: (1) high-quality EID significantly promotes the absolute GI level and the relative GI level of enterprises. (2) An intermediary model found that the internal mechanism of corporate EID used to promote GI mainly comes from the government’s energy-saving innovation subsidy effect and the social media attention effect. (3) Corporate EID has a more evident promotional effect on green patents for energy conservation and green patents for inventions. (4) The EID of state-owned enterprises is more conducive to GI than to the activities of private enterprises. (5) The EID of enterprises in high-level administrative cities has no significant impact on GI. However, it has a significant promoting effect in low-level administrative cities. The research not only provides an empirical basis for China to improve the environmental information disclosure system of listed companies but also to offer guidance for companies to pursue green and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Right to Access to Information and the Issue of Ensuring Environmental Security in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Luu Quoc Thai
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Near Future

— In the present day, environmental security is a global issue. For this reason, Vietnam has also formally stipulated the issue of “environmental security” in the Law on Environmental protection 2014. One of the important requirements for effective environmental protection, ensuring environmental security is the effective implementation of information publicization as well as the right to access to information related to environment of people in a society. However, in the Vietnamese Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (effective from January 1, 2022 replacing the Law on Environmental Protection 2014), the concept of “environmental security” no longer exists and many regulations on Environmental information disclosure has also been changed. This raises doubts about the ability to access information to protect environmental security in the near future. Therefore, this article will analyze the provisions of current Vietnamese Environment law on the issue of access to information in relation to ensuring environmental security in Vietnam. At the same time, the article also provides a preliminary assessment of relevant new regulations to contribute to the improvement of the law on access to environmental information in Vietnam.

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