Abstract
This is a presentation of my ongoing research, which examines the hypothesis that financial firms seek to influence the content of the EU sustainable finance regime by referring to voluntary standards. These include standards such as those developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This research involves a text-based analysis of responses submitted by these firms to two public consultations conducted as part of the regulatory drafting process. Over 200 responses are analysed using a corpus linguistics software.
I conduct three sub-types of text analysis: word searches, collocate analysis and keyword searches. I find that some (but not many) respondents refer to these regimes in their responses. In most cases, respondents seem to regard these voluntary regimes as part of a common basket of regulatory instruments. Yet, there does not seem to be a difference between directly and non-directly affected respondents in how frequently they reference these voluntary regimes. Instead, directly affected respondents are generally more likely - compared to other respondents - to use the consultation as a way to state their own positions and views.
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