Investors and other stakeholders are starting to pay attention to firms’ carbon emissions and carbon disclosure. This study investigated the effects of voluntary carbon disclosure information and carbon emissions on firm value from listed companies in the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 (CSI 300) Index. We also apply the Probit model to predict the probability of voluntary carbon disclosure information. The results indicate that the increase in carbon emissions has a negative impact on firm value. The action that companies select to disclose carbon emissions has a positive impact on firm value. The effect of leverage ratio on VCDI is increasing year by year. What is more, the probability of the average size firm carbon disclosure was 30.73% in 2020. Company management needs to pay attention to the risks caused by carbon emissions and ensure the quality of carbon disclosure information, especially the authenticity and reliability of the information.
Phytoremediation technology is regarded as a simple and efficient way to remove heavy metals from contaminated soil. A reasonable disposal of metal hyperaccumulators is always and resource-saving. The a major issue in waste reuse heavy metal-accumulating Cynondon dactylon (L.) was investigated where heavy metals were desorbed by a facile acid-treatment. The result indicated that more than 90% of heavy metals (Zn, Pb and Cu) was extracted from Cynondon daetylon with 0.2 mmol· L^-1 HCl. The plant residue was used to adsorb heavy metals ions. The adsorption fitted the Langmuir isotherm model with the saturation adsorption capacity of 9.5 mg·g^-1 Zn^2+, 36.2 mg·g^-1 Pb2+ and 12.9 mg·g^-1 Cu^2+, and the surface eomplexation and the backfilling of heavy metal imprinting cavities existed simultaneously during the adsorption. The treatment of wastewaters indicated that the plant residue exhibited a high removal rate of 97% for Cu. Also, the material could be recycled. The method offers a new disposal approach for heavy metal hyperaccumulator. 相似文献
以壳聚糖为生物质碳源,采用一步水热碳化法对凹凸棒石表面进行有机修饰,并采用扫描电镜(SEM)、拉曼(Raman)光谱、元素分析(EA)、X光电子能谱(XPS)、Zeta电势分析、热重分析(TGA)等对改性凹凸棒石进行表征分析.同时,通过静态吸附实验,研究了改性凹凸棒石对Cr(Ⅵ)吸附去除的性能,考察了温度对吸附性能的影响,探讨了吸附动力学和热力学规律.结果表明,改性凹凸棒石表面富含含氧基团和氨基等活性基团;对总铬的吸附行为符合准二级动力学方程;表观吸附活化能为13.4 k J·mol~(-1),表明既有静电吸附,也有配位吸附,且以静电吸附为主;对总铬的吸附等温线符合Langmuir方程.在温度为298、308、318和328 K时,最大吸附量分别为203.3、232.6、267.4和322.6 mg·g~(-1),说明改性凹凸棒石是一种新型环保高性能的除铬材料.在研究的温度范围内,ΔH~0为19.8 k J·mol~(-1),ΔG~0为-19.5~-23.7 k J·mol~(-1),ΔS~0为72.1~131.8 J·mol~(-1)·K~(-1),表明该吸附是一吸热的、自发的、熵增过程. 相似文献