Corporate Carbon and Climate Accounting

This volume is devoted to management accounting approaches for analyzing business benefits and costs of climate change. It discusses future directions on carbon accounting, performance measurement and reporting as well as links between climate accounting

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Carbon and Climate Accounting

Corporate Carbon and Climate Accounting

Stefan Schaltegger Dimitar Zvezdov Igor Alvarez Etxeberria Maria Csutora Edeltraud Günther •



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Editors Stefan Schaltegger Centre for Sustainability Management Leuphana University Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany

Maria Csutora Corvinus University of Budapest Budapest Hungary Edeltraud Günther TU Dresden Dresden Germany

Dimitar Zvezdov Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany Igor Alvarez Etxeberria University of Basque Country San Sebastian Spain

ISBN 978-3-319-27716-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27718-9

ISBN 978-3-319-27718-9

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Contents

Corporate Carbon and Climate Change Accounting: Application, Developments and Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Schaltegger, D. Zvezdov, E. Günther, M. Csutora and I. Alvarez

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Decision Support Through Carbon Management Accounting—A Framework-Based Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dimitar Zvezdov and Stefan Schaltegger

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Corporate Sustainability Footprints—A Review of Current Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gábor Harangozó, Anna Széchy and Gyula Zilahy

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Carbon Accounting: A Review of the Existing Models, Principles and Practical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eduardo Ortas, Isabel Gallego-Álvarez, Igor Álvarez and José M. Moneva

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The Attributional-Consequential Distinction and Its Applicability to Corporate Carbon Accounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Brander and Francisco Ascui

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