2023/12/28 by Tobias Schimanski, Schimanski, Tobias, Chiara Colesanti Senni +9
Business, Management and Accounting · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Economics and business #FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance #General Economics (econ.GN)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.17337
openalex publication_date 2023/12/28 · openalex created_date 2024/01/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Nature is an amorphous concept. Yet, it is essential for the planet's well-being to understand how the economy interacts with it. To address the growing demand for information on corporate nature disclosure, we provide datasets and classifiers to detect nature communication by companies. We ground our approach in the guidelines of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Particularly, we focus on the specific dimensions of water, forest, and biodiversity. For each dimension, we create an expert-annotated dataset with 2,200 text samples and train classifier models. Furthermore, we show that nature communication is more prevalent in hotspot areas and directly effected industries like agriculture and utilities. Our approach is the first to respond to calls to assess corporate nature communication on a large scale.