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To explain why and how corporate environmental management is beneficial, it is important to provide incentives to private companies to encourage such environmental activities. This study proposes a new corporate financial and environmental dataset called the world resource table (WRT), which uses open data sources published by the Japanese government. Environmental data include Greenhouse gas emissions and toxic chemical release data. With more than 1000 annual samples, the WRT will allow empirical analyses that use productivity measures and econometric approaches. WRT will also include corporate patent data, with linkages to analytical software packages such as GAMS and R.
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Pollution Inventory in the United Kingdom (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pollution-inventory-reporting), the National Pollutant Release Inventory in Canada (https://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/), the National Pollution Inventory in Australia (http://www.npi.gov.au/), and the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register system in Japan (http://www2.env.go.jp/chemi/prtr/prtrinfo/e-index.html).
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This paper was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (26000001) by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (26881006B), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.
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Fujii, H., Managi, S. Trends in corporate environmental management studies and databases. Environ Econ Policy Stud 18, 265–272 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-015-0132-3
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