(Institue of Export & Int'l Trade, london, 20 July 2023) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has modernised the terms of its Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits to allow export credit agencies (ECAs) covered by the arrangement, which includes...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Byline Times, London, 16 June 2023) OECD countries are continuing to pour tens of billions of pounds into fossil fuel projects, despite their obligations to switch to clean energy sources. Advanced economies are breaking their own climate change obligations by investing massively in fossil...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Price of Oil, Paris, 23 June 2023) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently agreed on terms and conditions for climate-friendly export financing as part of its revised ...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, OECD
(TFX News, London, 31 May 2023) The spectre of increasing sovereign debt has the potential to swamp future export finance deals and projects in several African jurisdictions. The changes to the OECD Arrangement on officially supported export credit...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Reinsurance News, Brighton, 15 May 2023) Berne Union, the global association for the export credit and investment insurance industry, has reported that its market showed “strong growth” across business lines in 2022 and a fall in claims paid overall. Highlights from the year’s data show that...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 24 May 2023) The export credit agencies (ECAs) of OECD countries should take more ambitious action to protect the climate after pouring 77% of their spending into fossil fuel projects between 2018 and 2020, a campaign group has argued. OECD members pumped an annual...
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2023/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Trade Finance Global, London, 7 April 2023) A modernisation package agreed in principle by participants will specifically allow countries to offer greater support for green projects while also expanding the use of export credits in the context of an evolving world economy and an increasingly...
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2023/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Energy Monitor, London, 17 April 2023) All 38 members of the OECD have pledged to reach net zero, with the US and EU in the middle of hugely significant domestic decarbonisation programmes. Yet export finance remains misaligned with the requirements of net zero, directing seven times more...
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2023/03/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Earth Org, Hong Kong, 28 March 2023) ) The new policy will allow Italy’s export credit agency SACE to support various fossil fuel projects, including exploration, production, storage, and distribution. Climate experts have strongly criticised the move, saying it would breach international...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 March 2023) Promise Breakers, a report released today by Oil Change International, reveals that the Glasgow Statement, a joint commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit (COP26...
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2023/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Oil Change International
(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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2023/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, OECD
(TXF, London, 10 February 2023) The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) White Paper update of its 2021 report shows that ECAs and...
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2023/02/27
Country: USA
Issue: OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Inclusive Development International, Asheville NC, 7 February 2023) Ugandan, Tanzanian and U.S.-based human rights and environmental groups have lodged a formal complaint alleging that Marsh is violating OECD guidelines for responsible business conduct by serving as insurance broker for the...
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2023/02/27
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 27 February 2023) Over 175+ organizations from over 45 countries have signed onto a Joint Civil Society Position calling for a robust prohibition on oil and gas finance under the OECD Arrangement on Export Credits. Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are the...
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2022/12/31
Issue: Arms Trade, European Union, Human Rights, OECD
(Brussels Times, Brussels, 17 December 2022) The Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers) adopted on Friday a package of new measures intended to step up pressure on Russia in response to its ‘continuing war of aggression against Ukraine and the gravity of the current escalation...
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