(Urgewald & Reclaim Finance, Berlin, 24 February 2021) urgewald, Reclaim Finance, Rainforest Action Network, 350.org Japan and 25 further NGO partners have published groundbreaking research on the financiers and investors behind the global coal industry. It was found that in January 2021, 4...
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2021/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, G20, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
2021/02/28
Issue: BRIC countries, Common Approaches, European Union, G20, OECD, Transparency
(TFX News, New York, 3 February 2021) The OECD Consensus has a long history but it’s still the only game in town. With the International Working Group now in stasis, is that a problem, or is it going to focus minds on reform? The ‘Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits’ started out...
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2020/11/30
Issue: Debt, G20
(International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 9 November 2020) An advisory group to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a call for G20 leaders to take action to avert the risk of widespread insolvencies amongst small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) globally, due to the...
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2020/07/30
Country: Canada, France, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Common Dreams, Portland, 6 July 2020) In an open letter to Emmanuel Macron and Rémy Rioux Common Dreams notes that France is embarking on an important diplomatic effort this November, bringing together 450 global development banks that control $2 trillion in public money. The objective? For...
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earch, Washington, 28 May 2020) Right after the mostly-rich and powerful G2O countries signed the Paris Agreement with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, they went home and continued with the business-as-usual public finance policies that directly undermined this goal...
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2020/03/31
Issue: European Union, G20, OECD
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 March 2020) Our "export credit" online alerts this month are flooded with news of coronavirus pandemic generated government subsidies for business (and some for workers), including special export credit increases. Here are but a few links by country:...
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2019/06/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, London, 24 June 2019) Despite promising a decade ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the world’s leading economies more than doubled subsidies to coal-fired power plants over three years, putting climate goals at risk, energy researchers said Tuesday. Between 2014 and 2017, G20...
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2019/05/30
Country: Canada, China, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: BRIC countries, G20
(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 14 May 2019) Canada’s overseas development finance arm is joining forces with a U.S. government agency that is being set up to act as a counterweight to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a state-sponsored foreign-investment scheme by Beijing. The U.S. government’s...
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2017/10/29
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Re:Common, urgewald
(FOE US, Washington, 16 October 2017) Although at least seven major countries — including Canada, France, and Germany — have made commitments to phase out coal power domestically, their export credit agencies, or ECAs, have poured money into coal plants and other fossil fuel projects in other...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Corruption, G20, Transparency
Member: FERN
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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
2010/10/07
Issue: BRIC countries, European Union, G20, OECD
Member: FERN
With the onset of the global financial...