中文 3265 字,1825 单词, 万英文字符 本 科 毕 业 论 文 外 文 资 料 翻 译 系 别: 经济系 epository for the largest corporations in the world. It is an independent not-for-profit organization, established December 4, 2002, to facilitate communication between shareholders and corporations in an effort to develop a comprehensive response to global climate change. Because firm specific responses to each questionnaire, including a decline or non-response action, are displayed on the CDP‟s website, motivation increases for firms to participate in the questionnaire process and disclose results. Each year the CDP lists all firms requested to participate and discloses specific responses to a comprehensive questionnaire regarding corporate carbon emissions and climate change. Extant voluntary disclosure literature is limited with regards to studies concerning carbon reporting information. Growing more important for stakeholders, regulators, and practitioners is the need to better understand the motivation for these disclosures as firm risk of potential legal liabilities related to corporate influence on climate change increases. If they do not adequately disclose their climate change risks, shareholders can sue the company and pursue separate actions against directors and managers who might not have satisfied their fiduciary responsibility i