Maria Balatbat

UNSW Business School

m.balatbat@unsw.edu.au

Maria is a Senior Lecturer at the Business School and Fellow of CPA Australia. Maria’s research interests include integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) dimensions in investment decision making including, disclosure of climate change information. She is a recipient of several Australian Research Council (ARC) grants with projects that examine the capital market implications of Integrated Reporting and use of environmental and social indicators to develop a valuation methodology for investment decisions. Maria also led a team to develop a built environment impact assessment framework that aims to unlock the value creation capabilities of sustainability reporting in the built environment sector. Maria teaches courses on climate change and sustainability to business students at UNSW. Maria is also a Director at the Australasian Reporting Awards and a member of the Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Technical Working Group of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB). Maria has a PhD in Economics at the University of Sydney.

The following lists Maria's publications released through CEEM

Publications

Title & place of publication	Author	Research area	Type	Links	Year
'Finance & Investment Rapid Review: Identification and measurement of circular assets and risks for the finance and investment sector in the transition to a circular economy', NSW Circular Rapid Review, 2022	Maria Balatbat , Karin Kobelentz	Sustainability & general	Reports and Working Papers	Report	2022
'The use of Environmentally Extended Input and Output Analysis to measure and evaluate the carbon and employment footprint of an equity investment', European Accounting Association Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, 31 May 2018	George Chard, Maria Balatbat , Tommy Wiedmann	Emissions trading	Conference Papers	pdf	2018
Performance Risk Associated with Renewable Energy CDM Projects, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, 28(1) pp 51-58	Balatbat, M.C., Findlay, E., Carmichael, D. G.	Emissions trading	Journal Papers	link	2012
'Is there an early-mover market value effect for signalling adoption of Integrated Reporting?’ Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference, Nadi, Fiji	Balatbat, M.C.	Electricity Markets & Restructuring	Conference Papers	pdf	2017
'Carbon Abatement and its Cost in Construction Activities’, Proceedings of the 2014 Construction Research Congress	Carmichael, D.G., Malcolm, C.J., Balatbat, M.C.	Emissions trading	Conference Papers		2014
'Improving the attractiveness of CDM projects through allowing and incorporating options’, Energy Policy, 86, p784-791.	Carmichael, D., Ballouz, J., Balatbat, M.C.	Emissions trading	Journal Papers	link	2015
'Measuring project sustainability maturity level - A fuzzy-based approach’, International Journal of Sustainable Development, 86, p784-791.	Siew, R.Y.J., Balatbat, M.C., Carmichael, D.	Sustainability & general	Journal Papers	link	2016
'The financial additionality and viability of CDM projects’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, DOI 10.1007/s10668-015-9630-5	Carmichael, D., Lea, K., Balatbat, M.C.	Emissions trading	Journal Papers		2015
'The Impact of Assurance and the Choice of Assurance Provider on the Market Value Effects of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Disclosures’.	Bose, S., Balatbat, M.C., Green, W.	Emissions trading	Reports and Working Papers	link	2015
‘The Relationship between Sustainability Practices and Financial Performance of Construction Companies’, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 2(1), pp 6-27	Siew, R.Y.J., Balatbat, M.C., Carmichael, D.	Sustainability & general	Journal Papers	link	2013
‘A Review of Building/Infrastructure Sustainability Reporting Tools (SRTs)’, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 2(2).	Siew, R.Y.J., Balatbat, M.C., Carmichael, D.	Sustainability & general	Journal Papers	link	2013

Events

Event	Presenter	Type	Research area	Location	Date
PPA 2022 Conference	Dr Iain MacGill, Dr Maria Balatbat , Anna Bruce , Atul Raturi , Janendra Prasad , Edoardo Santagata	Conference	Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Large-scale Renewable Energy, Sustainability & general	Brisbane, Australia	Tuesday, November 22, 2022
An examination of the impact of integrated reporting on early-moving firms	Maria Balatbat	Seminar	Emissions trading	2015 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Hobart, Tasmania	Monday, July 6, 2015
The market-value effects of GHG emissions, assurance and assurance provider: an international study	Maria Balatbat	Seminar	Emissions trading	2015 European Accounting Association, Glasgow, Scotland	Thursday, April 30, 2015
The impact of assurance and the choice of assurance provider on the market value effects of greenhouse gas emissions disclosures	Maria Balatbat	Seminar	Emissions trading	Henley Business School Sustainability Seminar, University of Reading	Monday, April 27, 2015
The Impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosures and Institutional Ownership on Market Information Asymmetry	Maria Balatbat	Seminar	Electricity Markets & Restructuring, Sustainability & general	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Thursday, December 4, 2014
Value Relevance of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Disclosures on Stock Market Performance: An International Study	Maria Balatbat	Seminar	Emissions trading	UTS Business School, Haymarket Campus	Monday, April 7, 2014
Value Relevance of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Disclosures on Stock Market Performance: an International Study	Maria Balatbat , Li Ming Koo, Leon Wong	Seminar	Emissions trading, Sustainability & general	European Accounting Association 2013 Annual Congress, Paris, 6-8 May 2013	Monday, May 6, 2013