New Paper: Climate (in)action? The relationship between CEO early-life experiences and corporate climate policies

While the severe physical impacts of climate change and related natural hazards are increasingly apparent, so far only little is known about the long-term behavioral consequences of climate change-related experiences.

A new paper by Wiebke Szymczak, Timo Busch and Simone A. Wagner offers new insights into this area. The study investigates whether early-life experienes with natural hazards influence CEOs' adoption of more climate-friendly policies during their tenure. While the authors do observe an effect of natural hazard experiences on climate policies, this effect does not hold when focusing only on experiences specifically related to climate change.

The paper is now published in Ecological Economics and is available here.