(Price of Oil, Washington, November 2022) This document signed by 54 international civil society organizations outlines how the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits can align with the Paris Agreement warming target of 1.5°C by placing restrictions on export support for oil...
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2022/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Les Amis de la Terre, Oil Change International, Re:Common, urgewald
2020/08/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Les Amis de la Terre
(ECA Watch members, 10 August 2020) This 9 page report finds that while ECA responses to COVID-19 are still quickly evolving, it’s now clear that these institutions are:
- Providing more favorable financing terms;
- Expanding the geographic scope of the projects and companies...
2019/11/29
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Arms Trade, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Sum Of Us, Paris, 7 November 2019) - A report published today by L'Observatoire des armements and SumOfUs in collaboration with Les Amis de la Terre France, documents the militarisation of Total's activities in Yemen since the 1980s. Open sources and witness testimony reveal that Total’s gas...
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2017/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2017) At the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017 a number of NGO, environmental and social movement organizations released briefings and research reports highlighting fossil fuel projects that are being funded by multilateral and national development...
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2017/06/30
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(Banktrack, Berlin 29 June 2017) The environmental NGO urgewald and its partners have revealed which companies are at the forefront of plans to expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by a staggering...
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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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Letters & statements
2014/05/21
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre,
In May 2014, more than 50 NGO have endorsed common recommendations provided by the briefing 'Ending Fossil Fuel Support: the way forward' (to be downloaded on the bottom of this page). This briefing was developed by ECA Watch members in close collaboration with other international and regional...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris 10 February 2014) Tomorrow French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr Obama announced the end of US public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, he now wants other developed countries to follow suit. In...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Friends of the Earth France has urged President Hollande and his government to end French support for coal-fired power plants via its export credit agency Coface and the various multilateral development banks in which it plays a significant role...
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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...
2013/06/25
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Nuclear
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
Société Générale has accepted the mandate to structure export financing of Alstom turbines for the controversial Kaliningrad nuclear power project, with a potential export credit guarantee from the French State, via Coface. European NGOs and civil society organizations are organizing street...
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2013/04/30
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Nuclear
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris, 26 April 2013) Following in the footsteps of BNP Paribas, the German HypoVereinsbank recently announced that it will not finance the Kaliningrad nuclear power plant in Russia. Today, to mark the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Friends of the Earth...
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2013/04/29
Country: Australia, China, Italy, Japan, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre,
(Banktrack, Nijegen, 18 April 2013) A coalition of seven NGOs (BankTrack, Jubilee Australia, Pacific Environment, Act Now! PNG, Mineral Policy Institute, International Accountability Project and Friends of the Earth France) today sent a letter to seventeen banks that are already involved in the...
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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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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/02/01
Region: Europe, Central Asia & Russia
Country: France, Germany
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
Member: FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald