Greater female representation on a company's board of directors increases the likelihood of voluntary disclosures on climate change effects, according to a study on publicly listed Canadian firms from 2008 to 2014 by Walid Ben-Amar and Philip Mcilkenny at the University of Ottawa and Millicent Chang at the University of Western Australia.
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