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.
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalEnergy Economics2025#GreenwashingDOI
Retail investor attention: Guardian of corporate ESG integrity or catalyst for greenwashing?
Li W.
This study investigates whether retail investor attention acts as a guardian of corporate ESG integrity or a catalyst for greenwashing. Analyzing a large sample of firms, the paper finds that increased retail attention is associated with im…
🌍 GlobalPreprintSSRN#Greenwashing
Carbon Offsets: Decarbonization or Transition-Washing?
(著者不明)
Using proprietary hand-collected data, this paper examines how firms use third-party carbon offset credits to claim emission reductions, empirically assessing offset effectiveness and the risk of greenwashing.
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalKarsa: The journal of Social and Islamic Culture2026#GreenwashingDOI
Unraveling Green Extractivism: The Case of Nickel Downstreaming in the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park
Bintang Corvi Diphda, Reza Triarda
This paper analyzes the nickel downstreaming policy in Indonesia's Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) through the lens of green extractivism. It shows how climate crisis and energy transition narratives, along with sustainability claims (ESG, …
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalApplied Economics Letters2026#GreenwashingDOI
Green in name only? The role of ESG committees in corporate greenwashing
Peng L.
This paper investigates the role of ESG committees in corporate greenwashing. It examines whether ESG committees reduce or enable greenwashing, providing insights into the effectiveness of governance structures in ensuring credible environm…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalDiscover Sustainability2026#GreenwashingDOI
How false-disclosure greenwashing affects corporate financial sustainability
Ma Y.
This paper analyzes how false-disclosure greenwashing affects corporate financial sustainability. It discusses the detection of greenwashing and its financial consequences, emphasizing the importance of disclosure integrity.
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · Journal2026#GreenwashingDOI
We reviewed 48 ‘low carbon’ projects and found they were becoming part of the fossil fuel problem
Freddie Daley, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina
This paper reviews 48 projects labeled as 'low carbon' and finds that they inadvertently perpetuate the fossil fuel problem. The authors argue that such projects can serve as greenwashing and delay genuine decarbonization.
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalarXiv.org2026#GreenwashingDOI
Enhancing Language Models for Robust Greenwashing Detection
N. Braun, Keane Ong, Rui Mao +2
This paper proposes a parameter-efficient framework for detecting greenwashing in sustainability reports. It combines contrastive learning with ordinal ranking to structure LLM latent spaces, uses gated feature modulation to filter disclosu…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalInternational Journal of Advanced Technology and Social Sciences2026#GreenwashingDOI
Greenfraud as a New Governance Challenge: Unraveling Deviance in Sustainability Reporting
Septarina Prita Dania Sofianti
This paper defines 'green fraud' as deliberate manipulation or concealment of sustainability information. Through a literature review, it identifies forms (exaggerated green claims, emission data discrepancies) and causes (weak verification…
🌍 GlobalPreprintJurnal Wahana Akuntansi2025#GreenwashingDOI
Greenwashing in ESG Disclosure: A Systematic Literature Review through Theoritical and Bibliometric Anaylisis
Mugisana, Radi, Eneng Nurdiana Septifani, Laras Angelia Nirwana Sari
This paper examines greenwashing in ESG disclosure via a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of Scopus articles (2019-2025), integrating legitimacy and stakeholder theories. Findings show greenwashing emerges when firms f…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalEnvironmental Research Letters2025#GreenwashingDOI
On the validity of corporate green bonds’ environmental claims: is the environmental reporting of corporate green bonds reliable?
Petucco C.
This paper examines the validity of environmental claims made by corporate green bonds, questioning whether their environmental reporting is reliable. It analyzes the accuracy of green bond disclosures and highlights risks of greenwashing.
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalSustainable Development2026#GreenwashingDOI
The Impact of Earnings Management on Corporate Sustainability: Evidence From London Stock Exchange Listed Companies
Richard Arhinful, Leviticus Mensah, Halkawt Ismail Mohammed Amin +2
This study examines how earnings management (including greenwashing) affects corporate environmental, social, and economic sustainability under the UK's TCFD reporting mandate. Using 23 years of data from 200 London Stock Exchange non-finan…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalPLOS Climate2026#GreenwashingDOI
Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Maya Bach, Loredana Loy, Katharine J. Mach +2
This paper analyzes 1,233 environmental claims from the latest sustainability reports and websites (2021–2024) of the world's 33 largest meat and dairy companies. 68% of claims are climate-related, 38% are unverifiable future projections. 1…
🇺🇸 USAJournalStanford Digital Repository2026#GreenwashingDOI
"Searching for Signals of Credible Intent in Corporate Climate Reports" presented by Aldís Elfarsdóttir at the 2026 Sustainability Data Science Conference
Aldís Elfarsdóttir, Markus Pelger, Chase Hikida +3
This study identifies five credibility signals in corporate climate reports using NLP: emissions data parity, third-party verification, reporting consistency, specific language, and specific initiatives. Analyzing 118,724 firm-year observat…
🌍 GlobalPreprintJurnal Ar Ro'is Mandalika (Armada)2025#GreenwashingDOI
The Role of the Assurance Dimension of Sustainability Reporting on Greenwashing: Systematic Literature Review
Riska Handani, Syahril Djaddang
This paper systematically reviews how four assurance dimensions (existence, provider, level, scope) of sustainability reporting affect greenwashing. Analyzing 20 peer-reviewed articles (2020-2025), it finds that high-quality assurance enhan…
🌍 GlobalPreprintAdvances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences2025#GreenwashingDOI
Forensic Accounting Approaches to Detecting and Preventing Greenwashing and Data Manipulation in ESG Reporting
Qihan Sun
This paper examines mechanisms of greenwashing and data manipulation in ESG reporting, proposing forensic accounting as a countermeasure. It introduces a multidimensional verification framework integrating blockchain, AI, and satellite moni…
🇪🇺 EuropePreprintJournal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions2025#GreenwashingDOI
Bank green transition or greenwashing? How truly green are perceived the projects financed by green bonds issued by European banks?
Nicholas Apergis, Giuseppina Chesini, Thomas Poufinas
This study analyzes factors affecting yields of green bonds issued by European banks. It finds that ESG scores, Scope 1/2/3 emissions, and alignment with climate-related SDGs have a negative impact on yields, while the green bond label and …
🌍 GlobalPreprint2025#GreenwashingDOI
Institutionalizing Credibility: A Digital Transparency Blueprint for Sovereign Climate Finance in Emerging Markets A Case Study of the Dominican Republic's 2024 Green Bond and the Mitigation of Greenwashing Risk
Duran Cornelio, Luis M.
This paper analyzes the Dominican Republic's 2024 sovereign green bond ($750M) as a case study for climate finance in emerging markets. The issuance achieved a 15-basis-point greenium, but faces a $17.6B+ funding gap for NDC targets. To mit…