Around 23,000 companies, worth over half of the global listed market cap, participated in the assessment performed by the CDP on behalf of the investors representing an AUM of over $136 trillion.
To deal with the extreme climate change builders are focussing on conserving water by recycling it and using it for flushing and landscape, harvesting rainwater, radiation free building structures, green materials, and recycling organic waste and segregating waste on the development so that the amount of waste sent to the landfill is only 20 % of the standard amongst others.
/PRNewswire/ The "Green Building Materials: Global Markets" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com s offering. Global market for green building.
This study investigates how potential target firms' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance affects bid premiums during the merger and acquisition (M&A) process. Using a sample of 5658 M&A deals between 2009 to 2020, we provide new evidence that target firms' ESG rating is positively correlated to bid price, particularly when the target firm scores highly on their singular environmental and governance ratings, whereas the targets with high single social ratings alone are not correlated to bid price. Our results also implied that when the target has lower environmental and governance performance, M&A deals are less likely to face bid premiums. We additionally find that the target firms of non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs) are more likely to have a higher bid price as opposed to state-owned enterprises' (SOEs) target firms. Additionally, we find that targets' ESG rating is positively correlated to target shareholder value creation, as