(Global Trade Review, London, 15 March 2023) A meeting of the OECD Arrangement on export credits ended last week without an announcement of a breakthrough on any key planks in its modernisation agenda. The arrangement was created to avoid like-minded countries from undercutting each other on...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Oil Change International
2022/12/28
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Fitch, Milan, 29 November 2022) Fitch Ratings has affirmed that SACE's shares were transferred back to the national government from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (BBB/Stable) in March 2022, changing SACE's mission from an unregulated export credit insurer to a government agency underwriting...
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2022/10/29
Country: Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
(Korea Times, Soeul, 24 October 2022) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) is holding a meeting of environmental and social practitioners October 24-25 to help address environmental and social issues when providing officially supported export credits. Eximbank is co-hosting the 46th OECD...
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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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2020/08/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Les Amis de la Terre
(ECA Watch members, 10 August 2020) This 9 page report finds that while ECA responses to COVID-19 are still quickly evolving, it’s now clear that these institutions are:
- Providing more favorable financing terms;
- Expanding the geographic scope of the projects and companies...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
(ECA-Watch, Amsterdam, 29 June 2020) As part of continued advocacy with the European institutions on Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), European groups are working to enhance the reporting requirements of the EU ECAs under EU...
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2020/04/30
Country: Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD
(OECD Watch, Amsterdam, 8 April 2020) On 17 March 2020, the Korean National Contact Ppoint accepted a complaint against KEXIM, the export credit agency (ECA) of South Korea, for financial support of harmful palm oil production practices in Indonesia. This is a significant step, as it is the...
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2018/07/27
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD
(UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 2 May 2018) The report, prepared pursuant to Council resolutions 17/4 and 35/7 for discussion at its 18 June to 6 July 2018 meetings, examines the duty of States to protect against human rights abuses by business enterprises, including export credit agencies,...
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2018/07/27
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD
Member: Corner House, Re:Common
(European Ombudsman, Brussels, 17 July 2018) Following a complaint launched by ECA Watch members, the European Ombudsman has determined that the European Commission wrongly decided not to carry out a human rights impact assessment before agreeing to the 2015 Sector Understanding on Export...
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2018/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Finance & Trade Watch
(Finance & Trade Watch and CEE Bankwatch, Dec. 2017) Export credits are big business. Members of the industry’s Berne Union, both state and private, insured approximately USD 1.9 trillion per year between 2012 and 2016, of which USD1 trillion was state ECA insured. That amount far...
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2017/12/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(Global Trade Review, London, 7 December 2017) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has announced plans for a new invoice financing scheme for exporters in a bid to boost exports through supply chain efficiency. GTR has learned that the new scheme will allow an exporter to set up a supply chain discounting...
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2015/02/28
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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...
External reports and publications
2015/02/18
ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights: Failure to Protect. The report calls on states to...
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ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2011/11/08
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD
Letter from ECA Watch to members of the OECD's ECG, November 8, 2011.
Among other issues, ECA Watch responds to text concerning human rights in the latest draft revision of the Common Approaches.