Relationship of Environmental Performance and Carbon Emission Disclosure to Share Return

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relationship between environmental performance and carbon emission disclosure to share returns. To test our hypotheses, we using 130 firm-year observations, manufacture listed firms in Indonesia Stock Exchange that included in PROPER assessment from 2013 to 2016. Ordinary least square regression result shows that environmental performance does not have a relationship to share return, while carbon emission disclosure has a positive relationship to share return. These results indicate that, in general, the market will respond to information as a particular signal toward an event that affects the firm’s value, which reflected by the firm’s share price. This study is crucial for the investor to consider non-financial factors such as corporate social responsibility disclosure and environmental performance in the context of select a proper investment.