(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 July 2022) Today the Belgian export credit agency Credendo published a new policy to shift public finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. The policy is meant to implement a commitment that Belgium made alongside 33 other countries and 5...
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2022/07/30
Country: Belgium
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
2022/07/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Bloomberg, Ottawa, 19 July 2022) Canada’s export credit agency is targeting a 15% cut to its financing portfolio for upstream oil and gas production by 2030. The target will include a 3% shift - against a 2020 baseline - in the composition of production to gas from oil, recognizing that the...
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2022/07/30
Country: Norway
Issue: Climate Change
(Global Construction, London, 1 July 2022) Norwegian battery-maker Freyr expects the plant to be one of the biggest and most efficient in Europe, with 50% lower capital spending per GWh of capacity and more than 200% higher production per employee than conventional lithium-ion facilities. The...
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2022/07/30
Country: France
ECAs: Bpifrance
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Nuclear
(R and R Life, Manchester, 3 July 2022) Following French/Polish agreement in October 2021 to build 4 to 6 nucelear reactors, the French government has clearly stated its willingness to consider different ways to provide support, which is expected by the Polish side. Electricite de France (EDF)...
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2022/06/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan, Russia
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(JACSES, Tokyo, 22 June 2022) It has been reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced to halt Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Matarbari 2 in Bangladesh and the Indramayu coal-fired power project in Indonesia. Both projects have been...
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2022/06/30
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2022) Sanctions on Russian fossil fuel exports have generated conflict over ECA support for African fossil fuel development. Existing ECA African projects include, for example, UKEF's reluctance to end discussion of...
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2022/06/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change
(Reuters, Kuwait, 7 June 2022) The state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is seeking to borrow up to $1 billion from banks including HSBC and JPMorgan, according to a parliamentary document reviewed by Reuters. The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is currently negotiating with the Japanese export...
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2022/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 1 June 2022) Following talks in Berlin on May 27, G7 climate, energy and environment ministers issued a communique in which they promised to halt new public finance for the unabated fossil fuel sector by the end of the year, except in “limited circumstances clearly...
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2022/06/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
UK Export Finance (UKEF), was named the world’s best for sustainable finance at the TXF Global Export Finance Conference in Lisbon on Tuesday.June 7...
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2022/05/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 2 May 2022) Export Development Canada has agreed to partly guarantee $1-billion of loans which the Bank of Montreal plans to make to companies in carbon-intensive industries in order to help them lower their emissions, reducing the risks of the bank’s foray into...
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2022/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Institute of Export and International Trade, London, 18 May 2022) UK International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said green trade is central to growing the UK’s economy, achieving net zero and driving prosperity, as well as “De-Putinising” the global economy by cutting reliance on...
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2022/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 19 May 2022) Today, 122 civil society groups are releasing letters to eleven government signatories to the Glasgow Statement on International Public Support for the Clean Energy Transition, laying out the actions they must take as soon as possible to meet...
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2022/05/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 25 May 2022) A South Korean court has dismissed an application by traditional owners in Australia for an injunction to prevent South Korean public finance institutions from supporting a proposed gas export project. Representatives of the...
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2022/05/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track, Re:Common
(Banktrack, Nijmegen, 20 May 2022) The coalition to #StopEACOP celebrates this week’s news that five banks including Deutsche Bank, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley have confirmed they will not join the project loan to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)....
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2022/04/30
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change
(Regeringen, Stockholm, 12 April 2022) Google translation. The Swedish Riksdag has proposed a budget amendment for 2022 that would authorize the government to issue guarantees of up to SEK 3 billion (US$305 million) for the purpose of insuring critical raw material imports for industry...
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