Conference Agenda
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SF 04: Financial Implications of Sustainability and Energy Choices Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0) Session Chair: Sophie Manigart, Vlerick Business School | |
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ID: 764
Carbon Burden 1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America We compute the U.S. corporate sector's ``carbon burden"---the present value of social costs of future carbon emissions. Our baseline estimate is 131% of total corporate equity value. Meeting the Paris Agreement goals would reduce the burden by roughly one-fourth, but emissions forecasts and firms' own targets fall short of that reduction. 13% of firms have carbon burdens exceeding their market capitalizations, even with indirect emissions excluded. Firms with higher carbon burdens have higher costs of capital, even after controlling for past emissions. Only a small fraction of the burden is priced through that channel, however.
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