(Finance & Trade Watch and CEE Bankwatch, Dec. 2017) Export credits are big business. Members of the industry’s Berne Union, both state and private, insured approximately USD 1.9 trillion per year between 2012 and 2016, of which USD1 trillion was state ECA insured. That amount far...
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2018/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Finance & Trade Watch
Letters & statements
2014/06/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11 June 2014
International NGOs Call on Governments to #EndCoalFinance
On Monday, June 16 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Export Credit Group will meet to discuss...
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2014/02/28
Country: Austria
ECAs: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Large Dams, Pulp and Paper
Member: Finance & Trade Watch
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 21 February 2014) On February 20th, the Austrian company Andritz received the “Eyesore of the Year 2013” award for its involvement in three dam projects with tremendous negative ecological and human rights impacts: Xayaburi in Laos, Belo Monte in Brazil as well as...
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2013/10/31
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald
September 13, 2013
Participants to the Export Credit Arrangement
Members of the Export Credit Group
To the Participants and the Members:
We are writing to...
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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2013/03/29
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...
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Issue: Large Dams
Member: Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch
Letters & statements
2012/08/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Transparency
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
On 6 August 2012, ECA Watch and the European Coalition...
Letters & statements
2011/11/08
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, Nuclear, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
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
(8 November 2011) This letter from ECA Watch outlines the...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2011/06/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
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
(June 29, 2011) A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European...
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Letters & statements
2011/04/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
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
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/12/02
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
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
(December...
Letters & statements
2010/11/16
Issue: G20
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 11, 2010) Released the day before the November 2010 G-20 summit in Seoul, this press release by ECA-Watch outlines why G-20 leaders should ensure ECAs are included in efforts to end fossil fuel subsidies.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/06/12
(2010) This paper from Christine Eberlein (Berne Declaration...
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch
Letters & statements
2008/03/19
(March 19, 2008) Joint Call to halt Ilisu Dam Development on the Occasion of the International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life 14 March 2008.
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, FERN, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , urgewald
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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