Note: This table reports the results of the effect of climate exposure on the costs of high leverage related to financing capacities. The dependent variable in Models 1 and 2 is firms’ equity issuance (EQUITY_ISSUE); the dependent variable in Models 3 and 4 is firms’ debt issuance (DEBT_ISSUE). The main variable of interest is the interaction term between industry-adjusted climate change exposure (CCEXPO) and a dummy variable that equals 1 if, in that year, the firm’s long-term debt-to-assets ratio ranks in the top three deciles of the overall sample (HLEV). Additional variable definitions are in the Appendix. All control variables are adjusted to their industry-year means and are winsorized at the 1st and 99th percentiles. Further, we require that each industry-year contains at least four firms to be qualified in the analysis so that the industry-year mean is not biased toward outliers. The sample period is 2004 —2020. The t-statistics based on heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors and clustered at the firm level are reported in parentheses. Asterisks denote statistical significance at the 1% (^***), 5% (^**), or 10% (^*) level.