(IISD, Winnipeg, 16 September 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur has issued 2 reports on human rights in the area of hazardous substances. The report calls for phasing out subsidies and export credit and guarantees for fossil fuel extraction, plastics production facilities, and plastic-to-energy...
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2021/09/29
Issue: Debt, Human Rights
(Bloomberg Opinion, 7 September 2021) In an opinion written for Bloomberg, the former Governor of the central bank of Afghanistan (DAB) notes: "There are optimistic suggestions that the hard-won integration of Afghanistan into the global economy will remain despite the ascendancy of the Taliban...
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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 15 September 2021) A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros. In the report, the organisations examine...
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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
Berlin 15.09.2021
A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros.
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2021/09/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(The Times, London, 20 September 2021) The UK's UKEF has been accused of exaggerating how many businesses it has supported, of undermining the national drive towards net-zero carbon emissions and of doing too little to help smaller exporters. MPs on the Commons’ international trade committee...
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2021/08/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Human Rights
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 August 2021) Chinese banks have a “dismal” rate of engagement with concerns about the human rights impacts of their overseas investments, a new report says. The London-based...
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2021/08/31
Issue: Human Rights
(This Day Alive, Lagos, 8 August 2021) The Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM) has introduced a specific policy intervention that is promoting economic and social inclusion of key segments of the population, in particular women and youth. UN population projections for Nigeria in 2020 indicated...
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2021/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, G20, Human Rights
(Human Rights Watch, New York, 7 June 2021) Government financial support for fossil fuels, including through subsidies, presents a key obstacle to achieving emissions reductions urgently needed to address the climate crisis. Subsidies artificially reduce the costs of fossil fuel production and...
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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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2021/04/28
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Times, Roubaix, 22 April 2021) The British government’s investment in developing liquified natural gas (LNG) projects in Mozambique – projects contributing to the conflict and instability in the country’s north – is headed for judicial review following a successful legal filing from the...
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2021/03/31
Country: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2021) French energy major Total has been forced to suspend operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique for the second time this year, after a fresh attack by insurgents which killed dozens of local and foreign citizens,...
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2021/03/30
Country: Sweden
Issue: Human Rights, Nuclear
(Intellinews, Berlin, 15 March 2021) International multinational firms including Swedish ECA EKN are coming under increased pressure to break business ties with Belarus as opposition leaders apply a "name and shame" campaign as part of their struggle to oust incumbent President Alexander...
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2021/03/29
Country: China, France, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Construction and Civil Engineering News, Nairobi, 2 March 2021) More than 260 organisations have urged banks not to finance the $3.5 billion project, saying the project could lead to the loss of community land and livelihoods, environmental destruction and surging carbon emissions. Nearly a...
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2021/02/28
Country: China, Russia
Issue: Human Rights
(S&P Global, New York, 4 February 2021) Since Feb. 1, Britain and other high-income countries such as Israel and the United Arab Emirates have continued their vaccination programs apace, while even relatively rich African countries such as South Africa continue to lag. This stark divide in...
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2021/01/30
Country: Australia, China
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Human Rights
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 14 January 2021) China Mobile is firming as the most likely Chinese company to make a play for telecommunications assets in the Pacific in a move that would trouble Australia’s national security agencies. Digicel, owned by Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien, is...
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