(1 Number 2002) Press release calling on ECAs not to underwrite a 700 megawatt CANDU reactor for the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania, where safety and environmental standards are not being met.
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/18
(August 19, 2005) The Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is the most controversial pipeline in the world. This doubious honour is due to its damaging geo-political, environmental and social impacts, its role in augmenting the power of corporate interests over national...
more Dodgy Deal: Baku-T’bilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (BTC pipeline)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: FERN
External reports and publications
2013/04/17
Country: Indonesia
Over 50 representatives of Indonesian and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social movements convened in Jakarta and South Sumatra 1-7 May, 2000, for a strategy meeting on official export credit and investment insurance agencies (ECAs). They agreed on the following...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Debt, Transparency
Member: FERN
(June 10, 2008) This briefing note by Both ENDS and FERN highlights the fairly hidden role of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in the debt problems of many developing countries. It explains how export credit debt comes about, and clarifies how the cancellation of export credit debt is...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
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Member: FERN
(March 31, 2009) A new FERN...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: European Union
Member: FERN
(August 23, 2009) Liberalising investments with the aim of opening markets appears to be incompatible with sustainable development of resource-based activities. FERN has therefore published a briefing note, “From Rome to Lisbon,” a guide to the EU’s investment strategy. The guide explores...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Corruption, G20, Transparency
Member: FERN
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: FERN
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Pulp and Paper
Member: Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, urgewald
(June 11, 2012) Press release launched on the day that more than 30 European non governmental organisations (NGOs) delivered a letter calling on governments not to fund a new pulp mill proposed by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's most controversial pulp and...
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2013/04/16
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: BRIC countries
(Ship & Bunker, 15 April 2013) The Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) is expecting to boost its loans to the shipping industry by $2 billion this year to a total of $14 billion, Chen Bin, the bank's deputy general manager, transport finance department, has...
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2013/03/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: World Trade Organization
GAO-13-303, Mar 28, 2013
From fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2012, the U.S. Export-Import Bank's (Ex-Im) outstanding financial commitments (exposure) grew from about $59 billion to about $107 billion, largely in long-term loans and guarantees. Factors associated with this growth...
2013/03/29
Issue: Corruption
(ThinkAfricaPress, London, 1 March 2013) Africa's corruption troubles are well known, but corruption is a global phenomenon and developed countries are implicated through export credit agencies which support projects abroad that not only involve economic corruption, but are linked to human...
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2013/03/29
Country: Turkey
(Save the Tigris, 22 March 2013) Press Release by Campaign to Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes. On the occasion of Austria's Andritz AG Annual General Meeting which is being held on World Water Day, the Save the Tigris campaign, a coalition of nongovernmental...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch
2013/03/29
(LiveMint & WSJ, New Delhi, 20 March 2013) The Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. (ECGC) will open its first overseas office in London to help Indian exporters recover payments from defaulters... Since 23% of ECGC’s business is in Europe, the agency will operate from London,...
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2013/03/29
(Chemicals-Technology News, London, 13 March 2013) Al-Karaana Petrochemical Complex is a proposed olefins and derivatives plant, which will be located at Ras Laffan Industrial City in northern Qatar. The project is being developed by a joint venture (JV) of Qatar Petroleum (BP), which holds an 80%... more
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining