What Transfers Under Source Shift? Definitions, Examples, and Fine-Tuning for Climate Disclosure Classification
Climate disclosure classification is a fundamental task for analysing corporate climate disclosures, yet such disclosures appear in many different sources -- annual reports, press releases, and earnings calls -- that differ in length, purpose, and writing style. Existing evaluations are mostly conducted within a single source, leaving open whether common LLM adaptation strategies remain effective under source shift. We reframe climate disclosure classification as a cross-source adaptation problem and study three widely used adaptation strategies -- definitions, examples, and fine-tuning -- acr
