Do fossil fuel firms reframe online climate and sustainability communication? A data-driven analysis

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Acknowledgement

We thank Michael Ewens for his help accessing the CRSP data we use in this paper. RD's work is supported by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, 2023 Google Cloud Climate Innovation program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1144]. KM, TR, and RD acknowledges support from the Cambridge Judge Business School Small Grant Scheme [SG20-09] and Cambridge Faculty of Economics Keynes Fund [JHVH]. RMA and DE's work is supported by Caltech's Resnick Sustainability Institute (DE's work was supported by the Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute while he was a PhD candidate at Caltech). RD is grateful to Professor Flora Samuel, Stan Finney and Zara Kuckelhaus for supporting with computing infrastructure.

Contributions

These authors contributed equally: Ramit Debnath, Danny Ebanks.

R.D.: Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review & editing, project administration, funding acquisition, supervision. D.E.: Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, formal analysis, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review & editing, project administration, visualization. K.M.: Conceptualization, funding acquisition. T.R.: Conceptualization, writing—review & editing, funding acquisition. R.M.A.: Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing original draft, writing—review & editing, project administration, funding acquisition, supervision.

Data Availability

The materials necessary to reproduce the results reported in this paper are available at https://github.com/danielEban ks/. Energy-Industry-Greenwashing. Per the terms of Twitter's academic use policies, we will make available the tweet IDs for the data used in this paper upon publication. Researchers can obtain the CRSP data from https://www.crsp.org/. Publicly available extreme weather events data can be obtained from EM-DAT (https://www.emdat.be). Alternatively, please contact the corresponding author to request the dataset.

Code Availability

The code necessary to reproduce the results reported in this paper is available at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/danielEbanks/Energy-Industry-Greenwashing.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no competing interests.