{"id":124,"date":"2025-08-19T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/?p=124"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:25:25","slug":"academic-update-19-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/2025\/08\/19\/academic-update-19-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Update 19\/08\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pushing our research forward at University of Galway <\/strong><strong>\ud83d\ude80<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we edge closer to submitting our paper, I met today with my co-author Noel and fellow classmate Mukwiza  to dive deeper into our draft and data. We put some statistical power tools to work and uncovered some interesting patterns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Adoption Patterns<\/strong>: A positive correlation (<strong>0.13<\/strong>) between <strong>TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)<\/strong> and <strong>Paris Agreement (PA)<\/strong> compliance suggests that companies engaging with one framework are somewhat more likely to adopt the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2696\ufe0f <strong>Implementation Gap<\/strong>: More broadly, the relatively weak correlations across frameworks point to <em>selective adoption<\/em>. Many companies appear to implement certain elements for visibility or ease, rather than committing comprehensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/image-2.png 940w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/image-2-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2025\/08\/image-2-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing our research forward at University of Galway \ud83d\ude80 As we edge closer to submitting our paper, I met today&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/brian-mullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}