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Introduction : the European environmental conscience in EU politics / Thomas Hoerber and Gabriel Weber -- A linked emissions trading scheme under alternative scenarios : implications for Europe and Brazil / Thais Diniz Oliveira, Angelo Costa Gurgel and Steve Tonry -- Has the time now come for emissions trading schemes to make full contribution to combating climate change? / Ian Barnes and Li Lin -- Towards ego-ecology? : how domestic demands challenge the European environmental conscience and EU politics / Thomas Hoerber, Kristina Kurze and Joel Kuenzer -- The continued lack of an environmental conscience in EU transport policy after the Dieselgate scandal / Helene Dyrhauge -- The integrating power of the environmentally conscious energy : re-thinking global positioning of the EU / Tomasz Braun -- The effective impact of European waste directives on sustainability transition / Carola Guyot Phung -- The time has come! : the development of the European environmental conscience : evidence from the Eurobarometer surveys from 1974 to 2020 / Marjorie Tendero -- A growing European environmental conscience / Joel Kuenzer -- Conclusion : a (European) ideology for the 21st century? / Thomas Hoerber, Gabriel Weber and Ignazio Cabras.

This paper explores and examines issues and challenges related to sustainability, analysing the concept as a possible new ideology at a local level and worldwide. More specifically, the paper assesses the influence of sustainability in Europe, where the concept is promoted by grassroots organizations such as Local Agenda 21 (LA21) forums; as well as large political institutions such as the European Union (EU). Using in-depth interviews with 27 experts, we have collected information about sustainability and its role in becoming an ideology with the power of forging and shaping the future of the EU. Findings suggest sustainability could be interpreted as a new and inclusive bottom-up ideology, conceptually different from others e.g. the Marxian meaning of ideology as hegemonic set of ideas proposed by the elite. Promoting sustainability is seen as a raison d'êtreof the EU. Drawing on our findings, we illustrate how EU policymakers can further promote sustainability, which may help to strenghten the EU and confronting EU's internal threats such as Anti-EU, nationalist, and increasingly xenophobic sentiments.

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Although stakeholder theory is widely accepted in environmental disclosure research, empirical evidence about the role of stakeholders in firms' disclosure is still scarce. The authors address this issue for a setting of carbon disclosure. Our international sample comprises the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500, S&P 500, and FTSE 350 reports from 2008 to 2011, resulting in a total of 1,120 firms with 3,631 firm-year observations. The authors apply Tobit regressions to analyze the relationship between carbon disclosure and the relevance of the following stakeholder groups: government, general public, media, employees, and customers. Our results confirm that in addition to carbon performance, all stakeholders are associated with carbon disclosure. Only one stakeholder group (government) acts as a moderator for the relationship between carbon performance and carbon disclosure. Furthermore, the authors find that carbon performance but not the affiliation to a carbon-intensive industry acts as a moderator between stakeholder relevance and carbon disclosure.

Die globale Erwärmung und zunehmende klimapolitische Maßnahmen sind für viele Unternehmen mit Risiken aber auch mit Chancen verbunden. Der Lehrstuhl für Betriebliche Umweltökonomie an der TU Dresden und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle widmen sich seit Dezember 2006 der Frage, wie Unternehmen mit diesen Herausforderungen umgehen können. Der aktuelle Stand des BMBF Projekts Unternehmenssteuerung im klimapolitischen Umfeld (CO2-Navigator) wird in diesem Bericht dokumentiert.