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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2021/12/31

ECA Watch letter to European Commission re ECAs and corpoate social governance

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...

Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, Transparency

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2020/06/29

Preliminary Gap Analysis of OECD Common Approaches versus illustrative European Union objectives

Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.

Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2018/06/28

ECA Watch applaudes European Ombudsman demand for greater EU ECA transparency on human rights and environmental impacts

PRESS RELEASE

ECA-watch applauds the European Ombudsman’s ruling on maladministration of the European Commission in checking compliance of European Export Credit Agencies with EU law...

Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2018/03/01

Export credit agencies lurk in the shadows of responsible financing

The full publication of this new 136 page report is available here.

Between 2015 and 2017, Finance & Trade Watch and Bankwatch, together with their national partners, researched...

Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization

Letters & statements 2014/10/14

NGOs call on OECD countries to reject any coal financing via ECAs

ECA Watch in cooperation with the WWF European Policy Office and other European and global NGOs, has written a letter to Finance Ministries and Export Credit Agencies to move those public institutions away from coal financing and subsidies in the...

Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining

Letters & statements 2014/06/10

Press release - International NGO Call on Goverments to #EndCoalFinance

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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...

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

Letters & statements 2013/07/17

Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen export loan scrutiny

(Brussels, 29 June 2011)A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European Parliament’s proposal to make national export credit agencies (ECAs) more accountable for the support they give companies...

Issue: European Union, Human Rights

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/04/16

From Rome to Lisbon: a guide to the EU and its role in developing trade and investment agreements

(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...

Issue: European Union Member: FERN

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/04/16