(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 17 November 2019) This report shows that the Dutch Export Credit Agency ADSB insured fossil fuel-related projects with a total insured value of € 10.8 billion in the period 2012-2018. This is more than 60% of its total insured value for that period and € 1.5 billion a...
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2019/11/28
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS
2018/07/27
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 28 June 2018) Following years of advocating with the Dutch export credit agency Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB) to establish a complaints mechanism, and following active discussions between a number of Dutch NGOs and the Dutch ECA in recent months, ADSB has published...
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2017/08/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch & Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 24 August 2017) In response to a European Greens Parliamentary question, Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, replied...
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2017/06/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 14 June 2017) Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are key institutions governments employ to support private companies doing business overseas. ECAs offer a wide range of guarantees and insurances to private companies. This makes it easier for these companies to gain access to...
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2016/11/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 the Dutch...
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2016/11/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 [new link to go here], the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP), official monitoring body of the...
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2015/12/31
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 17 December 2015) On 8 June 2015 Both ENDS – in conjunction with and on behalf of Associação Fórum Suape Espaço Socioambiental, Conectas Direitos Humanos and Colônia de Pescadores do Município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho – notified the Dutch National Contact Point of a...
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2015/12/31
Country: Netherlands
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, December 2015) In November 2013, Both ENDS published a study on Atradius DSB’s support for complex export transactions that were structured via tax havens, and thus its potential underwriting of aggressive tax avoidance positions that corrode the tax sovereignty of...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
2015/06/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Common Approaches
Member: Both ENDS
(One World, Amsterdam, 4 June 2015) Evicting people from their homes is a major human rights violation according to the UN Commission on Human...
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2015/06/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 5 June 2015) At the beginning of June an OECD Guidelines complaint was filed with the NCPs of Brazil and the Netherlands against the Dutch dredging company Van Oord and the Dutch ECA Atradius Dutch State Business on the adverse social and environmental impacts caused by...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: OECD
Member: Both ENDS
2015/02/28
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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...
2014/12/31
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption
Member: Both ENDS
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 24 December 2014)
by: Wiert Wiertsema, Both ENDS
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras is currently involved in a corruption scandal that affects all companies it has been working with. The Dutch enterprise SBM Offshore paid bribes to Petrobras, and recently...
2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, USA
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 23 October 2014) On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal. The consortium includes the two main Dutch dredging companies: Royal Boskalis...
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2013/08/31
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Member: Both ENDS
(Atradius Dutch State Business, Amsterdam, May 2013) The 2012 Annual Review of Atradius Dutch State Business shows that while the number of approved applications actually declined in 2012 as compared to the previous year, the total aggregate nominal risk exposure in the same...
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2013/02/28
(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 19 February 2013) In 2012 Both ENDS organised a 'fact finding mission' to review the social and environmental impacts of dredging activities in the Suape harbor in Brazil. The Dutch dredging company Van Oord is currently executing two dredging projects in this harbour,... more
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Member: Both ENDS