摘要：Although a growing body of evidence suggests that publicly disclosing information about plants'environmental performance can motivate emissions reductions, this phenomenon remains poorlyunderstood. To help fill this gap, this paper presents original data from a survey of plants participating inthe Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER), Indonesia's widely-acclaimedpublic disclosure program. These data suggest that a key means by which PROPER spurs abatement isimproving factory managers' information about their own plants' emissions and abatement opportunities.This finding contrasts with the prevailing view in the literature that public disclosure enhances pressuresto abate placed on firms by external agents such as community groups and shareholders. But our dataalso suggest that PROPER's "environmental audit" effect operates in concert with external pressures.Therefore, simply supplying new information to plant managers without making that information publicmay not be sufficient to motivate significant abatement.
