GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 13 open scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
CN📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalInternational Journal of Finance & Economics2026#GreenwashingDOI
Corporate Climate Risk and Greenwashing Behaviour: Evidence From China
Jilong Chen, Yikai Han, Yating Li +2
This paper uses Chinese A-share listed firm data from 2009-2022 to show that higher climate risk significantly increases corporate greenwashing. Mechanisms include higher cost of equity capital, weakened supply chain stability, intensified …
CN📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalChina Finance Review International2026#GreenwashingDOI
Can finance and accounting supervision inhibit greenwashing? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Xiaohong Wang, Jiyang Zhao, Huajun Liu
Using a difference-in-differences approach with 7,395 observations from Chinese listed firms (2015-2023), this study finds that a finance and accounting supervision pilot policy significantly reduces corporate greenwashing. The effect opera…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalInternational Journal of Financial Studies2026#GreenwashingDOI
Greenwashing as a Corporate Strategy: A Bibliometric Analysis of Risks, Governance, and Heterogeneity
Fukai Wang, Wei Zhou, Zhen Zhang
This study maps the intellectual structure and contextual heterogeneity of corporate greenwashing research via bibliometric analysis of 818 publications (2000-2025). It reveals a shift from ethical/reputational debates to empirical investig…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalSocial Science Research Network2026#GreenwashingDOI
Are Nigerian Banks Indeed Going Green? What Five Years of Sustainability Reports Reveal and Conceal - A Policy Brief
Chinonso Victor Anidiobi
This policy brief analyzes five years of sustainability reports from three major Nigerian banks, revealing a gap between ESG rhetoric and quantitative, verifiable data. Using a novel ESG Salience Index, it identifies an 'Invisibility Proble…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalAbacus. A Journal of Accounting and Business Studies2026#GreenwashingDOI
Can Lenders Identify Heterogeneity in the Voluntary Assurance of Sustainability Reports? International Evidence
Haozhe Song, Gunnar Rimmel
This paper uses international data to examine how lenders perceive heterogeneity in voluntary assurance of sustainability reports. Assurance reduces debt costs only for firms with above-average sustainability performance, penalizing greenwa…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalWorld Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews2026#GreenwashingDOI
Artificial Intelligence Models for Detecting Greenwashing in UK ESG and Green Finance Projects
Bernard Wilson, Godiya Mallum Shallangwa, Samson Lamela Mela
This study develops an AI framework to detect greenwashing in UK ESG and green finance projects, using NLP (BERT, ClimateBERT) and machine learning (XGBoost, Random Forest) on 487 firms' sustainability reports (2018-2024). It achieves 86.34…
🇪🇺 Europe📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalZeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft2026#GreenwashingDOI
Green Rhetoric, Grey Reality: Algorithmic Detection and ESG Oversight in Financial Markets
Umberto Nizza
This paper investigates the opacity and vagueness of environmental claims in non-financial disclosures of major European banks. Using NLP, it identifies widespread use of unverifiable ESG statements that may violate EU law, particularly und…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalInternational Journal of Business Ecosystem & Strategy (2687-2293)2026#GreenwashingDOI
Corporate responsibility or corporate illusion? An integrative review analysis of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) shortcomings and greenwashing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Prosper Mutswiri, Limkile Mpofu, Zamokuhle Mbandlwa
This integrative review examines ESG deficiencies and greenwashing in Sub-Saharan African corporations. It finds that regulatory gaps, voluntary compliance, and self-reporting enable greenwashing, and calls for stronger ESG legislation, ind…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalJournal of Innovation and Development2026#GreenwashingDOI
The Manifestations and Impacts of Environmental, Social, and Governance "Greenwashing" and "Black Box" in Financial Reporting and Investment Decisions
Yucheng Li
This paper examines ESG greenwashing and the 'black box' phenomenon in financial reporting and investment decisions. Through case studies of BP and H&M, it reveals significant discrepancies between ESG ratings and actual corporate disclosur…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalAdvanced International Journal of Business Entrepreneurship and SMEs2026#GreenwashingDOI
OVERSTATED OR UNDERSTATED? EXPLORING THE PARADOX OF GREENWASHING, GREENHUSHING, AND GREENWISHING IN CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
Zuhairah Abdul Hadi, Wan Sallha Yusoff, Juraini Zainol Abidin
This systematic literature review examines greenwashing, greenhushing, and greenwishing in corporate sustainability reporting. Using PRISMA, it analyzes 24 studies and identifies three clusters: governance/institutions, markets/stakeholders…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalSocial Science Research Network2026#GreenwashingDOI
Disentangling Greenwashing from Authentic Environmental Performance: A Double Machine Learning Approach to Corporate Sustainability Disclosure
M. Pinarci
This paper proposes a causal inference framework combining BERT and Double Machine Learning to detect greenwashing in corporate sustainability reports. Using synthetic panel data, it identifies approximately 6.5% of high-disclosing firms as…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalMultitech Journal of Science and Technology2026#GreenwashingDOI
Green Branding or Greenwashing? A Review of Sustainability Communication Strategies in Developed Economies
L. Judijanto
This literature review synthesizes research on green branding vs. greenwashing in developed economies, using signaling, legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional theories. It finds greenwashing has evolved into dynamic stakeholder manageme…
CN📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalSustainability2026#GreenwashingDOI
Environmental Regulation and the Credibility of Corporate Climate Commitments: Evidence from China’s Net-Zero Transition
Aobo Yue, Kei Un Wong, Zongyu Song +1
This study uses China's Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan as a quasi-natural experiment to examine whether stringent environmental regulation reduces corporate greenwashing. Using a multi-period difference-in-differences mode…
📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalFood Science of Animal Resources2026#GreenwashingDOI
Carbon tunnel vision and sustainable meat production in the West: A disproportionate focus on dietary greenhouse gas emissions?
Frédéric Leroy, Ty Beal, Frank R. Dunshea +9
This paper critically examines the disproportionate focus on dietary greenhouse gas emissions in Western sustainable meat production discourse, arguing that this 'carbon tunnel vision' may neglect other important environmental and sustainab…
PreprintRISET2026#GreenwashingDOI
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF BOARD MEETINGS
Jazman Jakeem, Amrie Firmansyah
This study examines the influence of ESG performance and intellectual capital on earnings management, with board meeting frequency as a moderator, using a sample of 31 Indonesian healthcare firms (109 observations, 2020-2024). Findings show…
🌍 GlobalPreprintEcological Economics and Management2026#GreenwashingDOI
Green Economy and Greenwashing: A Critical Literature Review on the Paradoxes of Sustainable Transition
Javier Cifuentes-Faura
This critical review examines the green economy and greenwashing, highlighting how conceptual ambiguity and weak regulatory frameworks enable symbolic sustainability practices. It identifies research gaps in standardization, longitudinal ev…
PreprintJurnal Manajemen Motivasi2026#GreenwashingDOI
Financial Performance and Greenwashing in Sustainability: Evidence on the Moderating Role of Institutional Ownership
Kartika Noviana Purwiyono, Wiwik Supratiwi
Using panel data from 109 Indonesian manufacturing firms (2017–2023), this study finds that stronger financial performance (ROA) reduces greenwashing (the gap between ESG disclosure and performance). However, high institutional ownership we…
Preprint2026#GreenwashingDOI
ESG Assurance and Greenwashing: The Effectiveness of Auditors in Validating Sustainability Reports
Ikeogwu, Sunny Nwachonimuya, Ph.D, Nwajei, Felix Liberty, PhD
This study examines the effectiveness of ESG assurance in curbing greenwashing among Nigerian oil and gas companies. It finds that environmental reporting without proper verification may enable misleading claims, while high-quality assuranc…
CNPreprintCrossref2026#GreenwashingDOI
Saving Face or Sustainability? Face Culture and ESG Decoupling in China
Kun Luo, Bo Qin, Daifei (Troy) Yao
This study examines how regional face culture influences ESG decoupling—the gap between ESG disclosure and performance—using 14,981 firm-year observations from Chinese listed firms. It finds that firms in stronger face-culture regions exhib…
🌍 GlobalPreprint2026#GreenwashingDOI
Corporate Greenwashing and ESG Claims in India: A Legal Analysis of Misleading Sustainability Disclosures
Albert Issac
This paper provides a legal analysis of greenwashing in India's ESG reporting landscape. It identifies critical flaws in current frameworks like BRSR and CCPA guidelines, including the lack of a statutory definition of greenwashing. The pap…