Systematic reviews for Banking on Paris: the roles of public green banks in the net zero transition
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This data forms the basis of systematic literature reviews undertaken though Scopus for the dissertation Lyons, M. (2024), Banking on Paris, the roles of public green banks in the net zero transition, [doctoral dissertation, Australian National University] Canberra.
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The following details the process for producing the systematic review for Chapter 2. This was adapted for other chapters as outlined in the dissertation. I adapted Stechemesser and Guenther's (2012) framework for the systematic literature review in this chapter. They apply a four-step framework, based on Fink (1998) and Tranfield et al. (2003). In identifying relevant studies for stage two, I used the electronic database Scopus which captures over 90 million records from 7,000 publishers (Elsevier, 2024). It captures over 99% of records from Web of Science (Singh et al., 2021). The search string was deliberately broad: ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( “public finance” ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY (bank*) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ("climate change") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( investment ) ) AND PUBYEAR > 2015 In the second stage, I applied a range of screening criteria to the Scopus search results. Firstly, I limited the results to documents from 2016 onwards to reflect the importance of the Paris Agreement (reached in December 2015) on climate change investment. I restricted results to articles in English, which excluded 8 records (three each in French, Persian and Spanish, two each in Chinese and German and one each in Russian and Finnish). I also excluded editorials, review articles, research notes, short surveys and errata as I wanted to focus on original research. Journal rankings were not used for exclusion purposes because this review aims to give a comprehensive overview of original research. When these criteria were applied, I ended up with a database of 342 records. The search terms were not exhaustive in profiling all public financial institutions which leverage private finance for climate change investment. Some institutions, particularly export finance agencies and green banks relied more on snowball sampling of relevant papers. I then screened the abstracts of each of these articles to determine their relevance to the research questions; 52 studies remained. A further 21 studies were added into the research sample through reverse snowball sampling techniques and by searching the websites of key institutions for relevant reports. In stage three a review protocol was developed to undertake the content analysis of the publications, building upon the bibliographic content captured by Scopus. I coded the literature and developed a database of key information extracted from research articles including the method (qualitative/quantitative/mixed etc.), research question/s, original contributions, thematic scope (key conclusions, regional scope) institutional type and governance (bank versus infrastructure fund and multilateral/ bilateral/national/subnational), organisational mission and financial instruments profiled (concessional debt, equity, green bonds, insurance, guarantees, grants). This was an iterative process.
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- Australian National University