Datasets for "The City Never Sleeps: But When Will Investment Banks Wake Up To The Climate Crisis?"

The dataset provides descriptive aggregate data on fossil fuel financing issued on primary financial markets on financial centre’s level, by deal types (import, export, domestic, and platform) and by asset classes (equities, bonds, and syndicated loans).

The dataset was created on 2024/10/08 and is linked to a publication entitled, "The City Never Sleeps: But When Will Investment Banks Wake Up to the Climate Crisis?".

The dataset contains aggregate statistics on top 20 financial centres based on total amount of fossil fuel financing from 2000 to 2018, by deal types and asset classes. In addition, the dataset contains aggregate statistics on fossil fuel financing for 7 years during the period from 2000 to 2018, also by deal types and asset classes.

This dataset could be used by a range of stakeholders, including economic geographers doing research on different patterns of fossil fuel financing across financial centres, and policymakers considering the exposure of financial centres/ cities to the fossil fuel industry.