维也纳经济学院

AbstractPurpose: Political frameworks, regulations and stakeholder expectations guide and evaluate corporations in taking responsibility to mitigate and/or solve climate change related problems. Consequently, organizations increasingly communicate their activities related to ‘sustainable development’ and ‘transformation’ to their stakeholders – often without a deeper communicative manifestation within organizations. With our concept of ‘conversat

Highlights•We present a comprehensive analysis of EU member states’ long-term mitigation policies.•EU mitigation efforts rely on (energy) efficiency measures as primary mitigation lever.•(Energy) demand reduction strategies play a minor role in proposed mitigation policies.•The EU’s policy instrument mix is dominated by economic and regulatory instruments.•EU mitigation efforts failing to leverage the full spectrum of available strategies and ins