(Global Trade Review, London 19 January 2022) A planned European Union law requiring large and businesses and financial institutions to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence should also apply to export credit agencies (ECAs), activists say. The initiative has strong support from...
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2022/01/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current
2021/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Amsterdam, 25 November 2021) The European Commission is working on a proposal for a directive on corporate social governance, which will include a regulation of the human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) obligations of corporations. We urge the proposed new regulation...
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2021/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
The European Commission is working on a proposal for a directive on corporate social governance, which will include a regulation of the human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) obligations of corporations. We urge the proposed new regulation to become legally binding on the due...
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2021/10/30
Country: Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(PUNCH Nigeria, Lagos, 24 October 2021) The £1.5bn financing set aside for Nigeria by the UK Export Finance, the United Kingdom government’s export credit agency, has remained largely untouched, the UK Government Department for International Trade, Nigeria has said at the 2021 Energy...
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2020/12/30
Country: Italy, Japan, Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Times, Seoul, 14 December 2020) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said Monday it will provide $500 million (545 billion won) in financial support for a major integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The project financing by the state-run lender is aimed at...
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2020/01/29
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
Translation of the original piece in Dutch found at the above link.
Opinion | Daniëlle Hirsch is director of Both ENDS
This week it came to light in the Dutch newspapers FD...
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2020/01/29
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(Guardian, Luanda, 20 January 2020) Until the summer of 2013, Areia Branca, a fishing village just outside Luanda, the capital of Angola, was home to a thriving fishing community of 3,000 families. Now there is no trace of their houses, only sand, a pile of gravel, egrets, a bulldozer and a...
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2019/10/30
Country: Indonesia, Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Herald, Seoul, 7 October 2019) While South Korea has vowed to phase out fossil fuels and turn to clean energy to combat climate change and air pollution, it is supporting coal-fired power plants elsewhere - like in Indonesia. The government is virtually contributing to environmental...
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2019/08/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa 29 August 2019) For decades, Export Development Canada (EDC) has been subject to minimal public scrutiny, with media and Parliament rarely asking questions about the social and environmental costs of the business it supports. But recently, with some of the agency’s highest...
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2018/11/27
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground, Bank Track, Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth USA
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 12 November 2018) Canada’s Export Development Act is under review. In our submission (pdf) to the government...
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2018/08/28
Country: Germany, Turkey, USA
Issue: Arms Trade, Corruption, Human Rights
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 28 August 2018) When President Trump...
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2018/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Transparency
(Reuters, Kuwait, 13 February 018) The United States has urged members of the coalition fighting Islamic State to help rebuild Iraq or risk a reversal of the gains made against the group. Secretary of State Tillerson said the official U.S. export credit agency, the Export-Import Bank of the...
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2017/12/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(Global Trade Review, London, 7 December 2017) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has announced plans for a new invoice financing scheme for exporters in a bid to boost exports through supply chain efficiency. GTR has learned that the new scheme will allow an exporter to set up a supply chain discounting...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 11 May 2016) The U.S. Export-Import Bank loves to remind us that it is not a development agency, and, therefore, is not held to the same requirements as say a development finance institution. Even still, some of the governments that the head of Ex...
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2005/08/06
August 12 , 2005 (Source: Proyecto Gato) — Six Belgian NGOs have issued a statement calling on Ducroire to improve its policies with respect to the OECD Recommendation on... more
ECAs: Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency