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This special issue examines the multifaceted impact of climate change on business and finance, bringing together eight studies that explore how climate risks, opportunities, policies, and sentiment shape corporate behavior, investment decisions, and market dynamics. Key findings reveal that state ownership and environmental regulations significantly influence corporate environmental investment, while climate opportunity exposure can lower firms’ cost of capital in emerging markets. The research also highlights how climate policy uncertainty drives ESG performance improvements, and how both physical and transition climate risks amplify volatility in cryptocurrency markets. These insights underscore the growing integration of climate considerations into financial decision-making and point to actionable strategies for firms, investors, and policymakers navigating a climate-conscious economy.
Price stabilization mechanisms (PSMs), one of a set of key policy elements aiming at supporting increasing and stable carbon prices, may affect the performance of emissions trading systems (ETS) in terms of green innovation. By using the case of China’s regional carbon market pilots and data of listed firms, the research team found that pilots adopting both price-based and quantity-based PSMs significantly induced green innovation activities in covered firms, while a single type does not guarantee the effect. PSMs help to do so by lifting carbon prices and reducing firms’ perceived uncertainties. The above effects would be enhanced in firms with lower asset reversibility, lower ability of cost passthrough, higher ability of innovation, and state-owned enterprises.