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2008/01/01
(FERN, Brussels, January 2008) FERN's new report (PDF) explains how the Aarhus Convention on access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental... more
Issue: Transparency
2007/12/09
(OECD, Paris, 14 December 2007) OECD Member countries of the Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG) submit their cash flow results for officially supported export credits to the OECD Secretariat on an annual basis. Five tables provide 2006 and previous years’ results which are... more
2007/12/08
(South China Morning Post, Beijing, 19 December 2007) The Export-Import Bank of China (Chexim) and the World Bank are planning joint development projects in Africa, a move Beijing hopes will calm international criticism of its growing political and economic clout on the continent.... more
2007/12/07
(CanWest News Service, Toronto, 12 December 2007) It's time for Export Development Canada to begin to withdraw from the short-term export credit insurance business, says the C.D. Howe Institute. The business think-tank... more
2007/12/06
(Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, London, 12 December 2007) A recently released UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights consultation report addresses the challenges of incorporating human rights considerations into the provision of assistance, with a particular focus on... more
2007/12/05
(PRNewswire, Sao Paulo, 13 December 2007) In a move highlighting the growing importance of BRIC based exports and export credits, BRASKEM , a leading Latin American thermoplastic resins company and 3rd-largest Brazilian private sector industrial company, announced in partnership with state-owned... more
2007/12/04
(Islamic Republic News Agency, Tehran, 13 December 2007) China has been the biggest foreign investor in Iran during 2000-2007 followed by France and Germany, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) data on foreign investments in the Islamic state by major industrial countries,... more
2007/12/03
(Ethical Corporation, London, December 2007) In November, a group of NGOs including UK’s Corner House, Friends of the Earth France and America’s Environmental Defense walked out of a meeting with the OECD Export Credit Group. The meeting had been called to seek ways of incorporating “sustainable... more
2007/12/02
(ECA Watch, Paris, 27 December 2007) In last month's What's New, we noted a European Parliament resolution calling for an end to taxpayer support for fossil fuels projects, including via official... more
2007/12/01
(The Corner House, Dorset, 22 December 2007) Documents released in the High Court on 21 December 2007 indicate that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into BAE's ECGD supported Saudi arms deals was dropped only after then Prime... more
Letters & statements
2007/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
Brussels, 29 November 2007 – With a resounding majority (540 MEPs in favour), the European Parliament today passed a resolution on trade and climate change which calls for “the discontinuation of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for fossil fuel...
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Letters & statements
2007/11/18
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
(November 7, 2007) Citing their frustrations at years of silence in response to repeated proposals for effective implementation of environmental and social standards, as well as for coherence with related OECD goals and agreements, non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
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2007/11/13
(Bank Track, Berlin, 30 Nov. 2007) Kurdish groups and NGOs organized demonstrations outside local branches of the German Sparkasse (Savings Bank) and Deka Bank in eleven German towns today. The protests are targeting the two banks financial support of the controversial... more
2007/11/12
(Dow Jones, Paris, 16 Nov. 2007) French banking group BNP Paribas and Russia's Vnesheconombank, parent company of the the Eximbank of Russia, have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in export finance through a EUR300 million framework credit agreement. Under the export finance cooperation... more
2007/11/11
(Financial Times, London, 7 Nov. 2007) International organisations such as the World Bank and the US ExIm Bank that refused to be associated with the dam have been vindicated now as the budget spirals out of control and officials at every level acknowledge the many problems associated with... more