(Friends of the Earth Japan, 13 November 2023) NuScale Power, a U.S.-based company, has announced the cancellation of its plan to build a small nuclear reactor in Idaho, U.S. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), had invested in NuScale in April last year, together with JGC...
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2023/11/29
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Nuclear, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
2023/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(SDG/IISD, Winnipeg, 8 November 2023) 2022 was a milestone in global power energy markets. For the first time, total investment in renewable power generation and related products matched or slightly exceeded investment in fossil fuel production. By some estimates, global investment in clean...
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2023/11/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Transparency
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 3 November 2023) Canada’s export financing agency applies its own flagship environmental and social review process in less than 1% of the transactions it supports, the Auditor-General of Canada’s office has found. An audit report released to Parliament Thursday...
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2023/11/29
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Issue: Debt
(Global Trade Review, London, 7 September 2023) The export credit insurance market saw claims jump by more than 700% in Russia last year, as the industry grappled with the fallout of the Ukraine crisis and western sanctions, Berne Union research shows. Short-term export credit claims involving...
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2023/11/29
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Issue: Debt
(Berne Union, London, 7 September 2023) A Berne Union report investigates how political risk insurance can be approached amid the ongoing effects of the pandemic, geopolitics and the evolving Russia/Ukraine crisis. The search for new, diversified suppliers of strategic materials to support the...
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2023/11/29
Country: Sweden
Issue: Debt
(The Times of India, Delhi, 9 November 2023) According to the Swedish Export Credit Agency, the interest and unpaid penalties on 1,000 Volvo cars, have racked up a breathtaking USD 322 million still owed. The 1974 order for the batch of 1000 Volvo 144 sedans to be used as taxis was given by Kim...
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2023/11/29
Country: Saudi Arabia
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Foreign Policy, Washington, 15 November 2023) Riyadh hosted African leaders last Friday at the first Saudi-Africa summit on fostering trade ties. Among other measures, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman proposed $10 billion to finance and insure Saudi exports through 2030 and an additional...
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2023/11/29
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 November 2023) Oil supermajor ExxonMobil has unveiled plans to become a “leading producer” of lithium ahead of an expected leap in demand for battery metals – but for pure commodity traders, big moves remain a more distant prospect. Export credit agencies (ECAs...
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2023/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs UK, 3 November 2023) At Cop26 in Glasgow, hundreds of governments and private institutions joined forces in a series of pledges promising ambitious goals on methane reduction, forest protection and the shift of finance away from fossil fuels. End new direct...
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2023/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 November 2023) A proposal to end export finance for oil and gas supported by the UK, EU and Canada will remain under discussion at next year’s OECD meetings after being tabled last week during negotiations in Paris. If agreed, the proposal would see a ban on...
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2023/11/29
Issue: Debt, OECD
(Global Trade Review, London, 22 November 2023) Export finance banks are urging members of the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits to reinstate the rule reducing the down-payment threshold for emerging market borrowers to 5% amid escalating debt risks. On November 4, a...
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2023/11/28
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Times Live, Johannesberg, 17 November 2023) Banks and other financiers should withdraw their support of TotalEnergies' $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Mozambique, environmental lobby groups urged in a letter sent to more than two dozen project funders on Friday. The letter...
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2023/10/31
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Price of Oil, Washington, 30 October 2023) As Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) delegates prepare to meet in Paris from November 6-10, over 250 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 30 countries published an open letter calling on negotiators to support an end to...
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2023/10/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
The climate crisis can't be solved if export credit agencies continue to support fossil fuels. We, a group of concerned civil society organizations, call on governments to immediately end all export credit and other public support for fossil fuels.
2023/10/30
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Renewables
(ReNews, Winchester UK, 17 October 2023) Northland Power and its partners have met all conditions and completed the NT$117bn (€3bn) financing for the 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project off Taiwan. The financing will be provided by 16 international and local banks, including China Trust, Taipei...
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