(European Council, Brussels, 15 March 2022) The Council's conclusion underlines that officially supported export credits are key levers in order to achieve priority policy goals for the European Union and its Member States. Such goals include the building of a strong industrial Europe, while...
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2022/03/30
ECAs: Bpifrance, Export Development Canada, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
(Berne Union, London, 17 March 2022) The group leverages the Berne Union network to connect innovation in export credit with global problem-solving around climate challenges and sustainable development. The ultimate objective of the Climate Working Group is to accelerate climate action in the...
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2022/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 29 March 2022) As governments struggle to find fossil fuel supplies to offset dependence on imports from Russia, and transnational oil firms...
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2022/01/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current
(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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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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2021/12/31
Country: China, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Moscow, 30 November 2021) Russian gas producer Novatek (NVTK.MM) said on Tuesday its Arctic LNG 2 plant has signed loan agreements with foreign and Russian banks worth 9.5 billion euros ($10.8 billion), securing necessary external financing for the project. Earlier this year, Novatek...
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2021/12/31
Issue: European Union, OECD, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2021) The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) which monitors non-EU European Free Trade Association States (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) has adopted two sets of revised guidelines in the field of state aid: one on the promotion of risk finance investments and...
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2021/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Guardian, London, 13 November 2021) A new alliance of financial institutions is committed to funding the changes necessary to avert climate catastrophe. Alliance Chair Mark Carney notes that six years ago, in Paris, countries reached an historic agreement to limit the global temperature rise...
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2021/11/30
Country: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 24 November 2021) Seven European countries have pledged to promote reforms and encourage green incentives in the export credit sector, but dashed campaigners’ hopes that they would axe public finance for fossil fuels more quickly than the end of 2022 deadline set...
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2021/10/30
Issue: Debt, European Union, OECD
(Lexology, London, 4 October 2021) The European Commission launched a consultation process on 30 September 2021, sending a proposal to Member States on a sixth draft amendment to the Temporary Framework on State aid measures to support member economies in the current COVID-19 outbreak. The...
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2021/08/31
Country: Mexico, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: European Union
(Export Institute, Peterborough, 12 August 2021) UK Export Finance has signed a partnership with CABEI, Central America’s leading development bank, to encourage joint financing of major clean energy, infrastructure and construction projects. Trade between the UK and Central America was worth...
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2021/08/31
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, European Union, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(Lexology, London, 24 August 2021) ASHURST LLP has produced a 12 page overview of official export credit agencies in the EU, OECD, UK and globally, which broadly reviews ECA history, policies, competition, budgets, sector agreements, etc. It notes that as recently as the turn of the century,...
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2021/07/28
Issue: European Union
(Global Capital, London, 30 June 2021) Europe missed an opportunity to use the debate over the future of development finance to establish an insurance guarantee agency to attract private capital needed to help them hit targets for investment into emerging markets, according to experts in trade...
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2021/05/30
Country: Russia, Sweden
Issue: European Union, Human Rights
(The Journal, Dublin, 18 May 2021) Belarus was increasingly isolated today as Europe cut air links and calls grew for more action over its diversion of an airliner and arrest of a dissident on board. The Swedish Export Credit Agency (EKN) said today it was withdrawing export guarantee offers...
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