论文标题
全球公司的规模法律作为评估环境绩效的基准方法
Scaling laws in global corporations as a benchmarking approach to assess environmental performance
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论文摘要
最大的6,529家国际公司对全球二氧化碳排放量的近30％负责。人们对企业界在通往可持续发展道路中的作用的认识越来越多，这使许多股东和利益相关者追求越来越严格和雄心勃勃的环境目标。但是，如何客观有效地评估公司环境绩效仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。这项研究揭示了可用于构建公司环境影响的统一定量图片的潜在动态和结构。这项研究表明，公司使用的CO2E能源，水抽水和废物生产的环境影响（代谢），根据通常是sublerear的简单功率定律的规模，可以使用其大小，并且可以用于得出一个扇形特异性，大小相关的基准标准，以实现明确的公司环境绩效。实施这样的基准可能会导致减少15％的排放，但是公平有效的环境政策应考虑公司的规模以及扩展关系的超级或超额性质
The largest 6,529 international corporations are accountable for almost 30% of global CO2e emissions. A growing awareness of the role of the corporate world in the path toward sustainability has led many shareholders and stakeholders to pursue increasingly stringent and ambitious environmental goals. However, how to assess the corporate environmental performance objectively and efficiently remains an open question. This study reveals underlying dynamics and structures that can be used to construct a unified quantitative picture of the environmental impact of companies. This study shows that the environmental impact (metabolism) of companies CO2e energy used, water withdrawal and waste production, scales with their size according to a simple power law which is often sublinear, and can be used to derive a sector-specific, size-dependent benchmark to asses unambiguously a company's environmental performance. Enforcing such a benchmark would potentially result in a 15% emissions reduction, but a fair and effective environmental policy should consider the size of the corporation and the super or sublinear nature of the scaling relationship
