(ODI Global, London, 14 December 2023) This year old report explores the development of Sinosure as an institution and its involvement in China’s overseas lending and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This report makes two main contributions. First, it examines an understudied aspect of China...
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2024/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, G20, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(UN Environment Program, Baku, 4 December 2024) COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, offered an important opportunity for governments and other global stakeholders to put in place the mechanisms, tools and signals required for countries to continue implementing their contributions to the Paris...
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2024/12/31
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Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change Int'l, Washington, 20 December 2024) OECD members have failed to pass a landmark deal to end over $40 billion in public subsidies to fossil fuels. Despite last-ditch attempts by senior government and ...
2024/10/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 14 October 2024) Ahead of crunch talks within the OECD Arrangement, climate groups are pressuring the US, Korea and Japan to agree to a comprehensive proposal that would halt billions of dollars in fossil fuel financing each year. In recent days, over 40...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, 17 September 2024) A group of developed nations will make a new push to resolve differences amid fading prospects for a deal to restrict funding of foreign oil and gas projects by their export credit agencies. Restricting export credit agencies is seen as a potentially important...
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2024/07/30
Country: Australia, France
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(DeSmog, Seattle, 26 June 2024) Campaigners are increasingly taking out lawsuits against the funders of fossil fuels and other climate-harming activities,...
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2024/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(E&E News, Arlington, 17 June 2024) The fate of an international plan to end a major funding source for fossil fuel projects could be decided this week by U.S. officials. Some of the world’s richest countries will meet behind closed doors starting Monday to discuss a European Union-led...
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2024/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Renewables, Transparency
(UKEF, London, 25 June 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF) adopted the Equator Principles (EPs) on 31 March 2016, joining what now comprises 128 other banks and Export Credit Agencies (EP Financial Institutions or EPFIs) in applying this global guidance for environmental, social, and human rights (...
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2024/04/29
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, G7, OECD
(SACE, Rome, 19 April 2024) The leaders of official export credit agencies from the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the USA – met on April 16th, in Tokyo, hosted by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), to discuss recent business trends and...
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2024/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 10 April 2024) Export credit agencies (ECAs) in the world’s largest economies are still pumping billions of dollars more annually into fossil fuels than clean energy projects, fresh data shows, spurring...
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2024/03/30
Country: Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Financial Times, London, 26 March 2024) Second round of discussions ends without significant progress on export credit policies. The world’s richest countries are at odds over ending subsidies for oil and gas development as the US and EU differed over the extent of a ban, according to people...
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2023/12/31
Issue: OECD, Renewables
(TFX News, London, 22 December 2023) ECAs have looked to adapt their support for buyers and exporters in a high interest rate environment, revisiting and revamping older policies. The success of this evolution can be seen in the data – export finance is set for a record-breaking year. Greater...
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2023/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 November 2023) A proposal to end export finance for oil and gas supported by the UK, EU and Canada will remain under discussion at next year’s OECD meetings after being tabled last week during negotiations in Paris. If agreed, the proposal would see a ban on...
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2023/11/29
Issue: Debt, OECD
(Global Trade Review, London, 22 November 2023) Export finance banks are urging members of the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits to reinstate the rule reducing the down-payment threshold for emerging market borrowers to 5% amid escalating debt risks. On November 4, a...
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2023/10/31
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Price of Oil, Washington, 30 October 2023) As Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) delegates prepare to meet in Paris from November 6-10, over 250 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 30 countries published an open letter calling on negotiators to support an end to...
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