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Record W4376105740 · doi:10.1071/aj22095

Seeing sustainability reporting through a lens of value creation

2023· article· en· W4376105740 on OpenAlexaff
Katelyn Bonato

Bibliographic record

VenueThe APPEA Journal · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicSustainable Finance and Green Bonds
Canadian institutionsPricewaterhouseCoopers (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSustainabilityBusinessSustainability reportingTransparency (behavior)AccountingSustainability organizationsInternational Financial Reporting StandardsLeverage (statistics)Corporate social responsibilityPublic relationsPolitical science

Abstract

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With a global push towards achieving the Paris Agreement as an imperative, there is a growing focus on how this will be achieved, and the role of organisations in supporting the transition to a net-zero economy and broader sustainability action. Investment decision-making is increasingly being informed by sustainability information, with stakeholders demanding greater transparency and comparability of disclosures, especially climate-related disclosures from organisations typically categorised as heavy emitters. This has ramifications for the oil and gas industry. Today, the sustainability reporting landscape is complicated, with a proliferation of sustainability disclosure frameworks developed by various standard setters. In an effort to standardise disclosures, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation launched the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in November 2021 to develop baseline global sustainability reporting standards including for climate disclosure (based on Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures). We have also seen proposals from The US Securities Exchange Commission on climate-related disclosures, which have sparked extensive public comment. Locally, the Government has committed to introducing standardised internationally aligned reporting requirements, including climate-related disclosures, which will be mandatory for certain entities. Regardless of exactly where each jurisdiction lands, it is clear that the sustainability reporting requirements will be significant, leading to increased costs for reporters, resulting in a business imperative to leverage value creation from this compliance transformation. Indeed, organisations putting sustainability at the heart of their business strategy will be the game changer in the new sustainable and equitable energy transition. And just as there will be leaders, there will also be laggards who risk value erosion.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.029
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.048
Threshold uncertainty score0.151

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0290.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0110.009
Science and technology studies0.0100.060
Scholarly communication0.0480.062
Open science0.0040.014
Research integrity0.0150.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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