(Tehran Times, Tehran, 26 August 2022) The Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) has urged Russia to take the necessary measures for signing an agreement between Export Guarantee Fund of Iran and the Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) in the coming...
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2022/08/30
Country: Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, European Union, Human Rights
(Sky News, London, 3 August 2022) The UKEF credit facilities comprise up to £2.3bn for the financing of military contracts identified by the Ukrainian government, with the remaining £700m earmarked for reconstruction projects. Insiders speculated that companies such as BAE Systems and Babcock...
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2022/08/29
Country: France, Germany, Italy
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, London, 23 August 2022) Through their little-known trade finance agencies, Germany, Italy and France have been among the biggest backers of Russian oil, gas and petrochemical development in the last several years, helping to enrich and insulate the country as it prepared to invade...
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2022/05/30
Issue: Human Rights
(UN Human Rights Office, Geneva, 6 May 2022) Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, recommends how to improve human rights impacts of global supply chains, as requested by the German Presidency of the G7. She noted that achieving sustainable supply chains will also require...
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2022/05/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 25 May 2022) A South Korean court has dismissed an application by traditional owners in Australia for an injunction to prevent South Korean public finance institutions from supporting a proposed gas export project. Representatives of the...
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2022/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Human Rights
(The Guardian, London, 31 March 2022) UK Export Finance used £5.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures despite its own review raising concerns over labour abuses and environmental damage. Since 2019, UKEF has allocated £5.24bn of taxpayer money to projects...
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2022/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 April 2022) Friends of the Earth says it will continue its fight against UKEF's decision to provide US$1.15bn of support to a natural gas project in Mozambique, after a split judgement from two UK High Court judges. In a judgement handed down last month, Justice...
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2022/04/29
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(New York Times, Kampala, 8 April 2022) Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate justice activist, notes that this week, the panel of climate experts convened by the UN delivered a clear message: To stand a chance of curbing dangerous climate change, we can’t afford to build more fossil fuel...
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2022/03/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
(BBC, London, 23 March 2022) Tiwi Islands and Larrakia Traditional Owners in Australia’s Northern Territory and youth activists in South Korea have taken the South Korean government to court to stop it from financing Santos and SK E&S’ offshore deep sea Barossa gas project. The legal...
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2022/03/31
Country: Japan, Russia
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Human Rights
(S&P Global, Tokyo, 1 March 2022) Pressure is mounting for Japanese companies to review their energy business connections with Russia in the wake of Shell's withdrawal from the Sakhalin 2 project, which accounts for close to 9% of Japan's LNG imports, industry sources said. Shell's Feb. 28...
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2022/03/30
Country: Italy, Russia
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights
(Reuters, Rome, 1 March 2022) Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Italy to put on hold its share of financing for the $21 billion Arctic LNG 2 project led by privately-owned Russian gas producer Novatek (NVTK.MM), two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. Italian state...
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2022/03/30
Country: India, Russia
Issue: BRIC countries, Human Rights
(Bloomberg Quint, New Delhi, 1 March 2022) Even before the harshest of sanctions hit, trouble had started to build for those in India doing business with Russia. On Friday evening, two days after Russia began attacking sites in Ukraine, Rakesh Shah, director at Nipha Exports in Kolkata,...
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2022/03/30
Country: Korea, Russia, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Asia Financial, London & Hong Kong, 4 March 2022) South Korea said on Friday that it had won an exemption from expanded US export restrictions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Friday. The exemption means Korean companies won’t have to secure...
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2022/03/30
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(CBC, Winnipeg, 9 March 2022) In December 2020 Export Development Canada — a federal Crown credit corporation — signed a guarantee to back half of a $14-million loan to Winnipeg's 97% Russian owned Buhler Industries to support the company's ongoing operations. The manufacturer of farming...
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2022/02/28
Country: Russia
Issue: Human Rights
(TFX News, London, 25 February 2022) In a 20 minute TFX video, Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies discusses the practical impact of sanctions on commodity trade and oil and gas prices, the shift surrounding Nord Stream 2, second the involvement of international payments mechanisms,...
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