Dataset of exceptional women directors and carbon information disclosures of global energy companies

• Main Authors: Majid N.A., Jaaffar A.H., Kimpah J.
• Other Authors: 58237887000
• Format: Data Paper
• Published: Elsevier Inc. 2024
• Subjects: Carbon; Disclosures; Energy sector; Exceptional women directors; Governance; Leadership; Reporting; Carbon footprint; Climate change; Emission control; Greenhouse gases; Carbon disclosures; Disclosure; Energy companies; Exceptional woman director; Global energy; Information disclosure; Sustainable development

Dataset in this article contains solid information on the novel dataset of exceptional women directors (EWDs) and carbon information disclosures (CID) of global energy leading companies. The data presented is related to the research article entitled �The Effect of Women's Leadership on Carbon Disclosure by the Top 100 Global Energy Leaders� [1]. In exploring the degree of EWDs� and the level of CID, the content analysis technique based on the enhanced scoring indicators were deployed to obtain the data of the 97 companies based on accessible materials from companies� websites or any associated reports such as sustainability, environmental, annual, or integrated reports within three-year periods (2018 � 2020) for the global energy leading companies which listed in Thomson Reuters Database 2017. Data on EWDs� engagement and CID are extracted from the available information, reports, and materials. The data are collected based on the enhanced version of the EWD's indicators adapted from Ramon Llorens, Garc�a-Meca and Pucheta-Mart�nez [2], Hillman, Cannella and Paetzold [3], and Jaaffar and Amran [4]. Meanwhile, data collected for CID by using Carbon Disclosures Index (CDI) comprising 90 scores within nine aspects