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September 15, 2003
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Items
- 1 Campaigners Lambast ECAs Meeting in Paris, France
- 2 Race to the Bottom, Take II
- 3 Export Credits and Sustainable Development
In this issue:
1.  Campaigners
Lambast ECAs Meeting in Paris, France
" PRESS RELEASE:Export
Credit Agencies Continue Ecological and Social Race to the Bottom:
International Report Spotlights Problems as OECD Negotiations Reopen
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"As government negotiations reopen September 16 at the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the environmental
guidelines for Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), an international coalition
of NGOs has launched a report entitled " Race
to the Bottom II ." The report is highly critical of the current
draft environmental framework."
2.
" Race to the Bottom, Take
II ," the Late Breaking ECA Campaign Report now online! 
"Significantly destructive projects that violate host country law,
international environmental standards and international human rights
and labor laws continue to be considered and supported by ECAs.
This report presents a civil society proposal for reforming the
OECD Common Approaches on Enviornment and supports the proposal
with nine case studies of ECA-backed projects from all over the
world."
3. "Export
Credits and Sustainable Development:
How to minimize
risks and save costs?" Â A presentation to the Export
Credit Group of the OECD by Friends of the Earth, France.
II. View 'back issues':
April 11, 2003
March 17, 2003
February 20, 2003
February 7, 2003
January 24, 2003
December 17, 2002
November 22, 2002
October 29, 2002
October 23, 2002
September 30, 2002
September 12, 2002
August 26, 2002
August 02, 2002 - ECA Watch web team was on vacation.
July 19, 2002
July 08, 2002
June 14, 2002
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