TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

The article theme is the Corporate Climate Change and aims to identify whether there is top management support to the companies’ attitudes related to the climate change, with a comparison between two groups of enterprises, “Brazil” and “S&P 500 MZ”, using the Carbon Disclosure Project database....

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Main Authors: Siqueira de Morais Neto, Maurício Fernandes Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2014-08-01
Series:Contextus
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Online Access:http://www.contextus.ufc.br/index.php/contextus/article/view/311/204
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description The article theme is the Corporate Climate Change and aims to identify whether there is top management support to the companies’ attitudes related to the climate change, with a comparison between two groups of enterprises, “Brazil” and “S&P 500 MZ”, using the Carbon Disclosure Project database. It was used a methodology of a descriptive nature based on secondary data collection, which was done through literature review and the observation of the CDP’s questionnaires. It was observed that 62% of the Brazilian companies and 66% of the American corporations analyzed stated that they have an executive body with overall responsibility for dealing with climate change.
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spelling doaj.art-1c9978c8531f4817ba2aaf0fecc3069f2022-12-21T22:49:02ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáContextus2178-92582178-92582014-08-01122737TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT TO CLIMATE CHANGESiqueira de Morais Neto0Maurício Fernandes Pereira1 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)The article theme is the Corporate Climate Change and aims to identify whether there is top management support to the companies’ attitudes related to the climate change, with a comparison between two groups of enterprises, “Brazil” and “S&P 500 MZ”, using the Carbon Disclosure Project database. It was used a methodology of a descriptive nature based on secondary data collection, which was done through literature review and the observation of the CDP’s questionnaires. It was observed that 62% of the Brazilian companies and 66% of the American corporations analyzed stated that they have an executive body with overall responsibility for dealing with climate change.http://www.contextus.ufc.br/index.php/contextus/article/view/311/204Climate Change; Organizational attitudes; Top Management Support; Brazil; USA.
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