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2020/10/28

ECAs and Green Recovery

(Christian Aid, London, 20 October 2020) This new report warns that post-Covid stimulus packages are in danger of widening global inequality and pushing poorer countries to turn to fossil fuels, which would threaten the success of the UK’s COP26 climate summit. The world stands at a crucial...

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Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables

2020/03/29

EU approves emergency state-aid ECA measures

(National Law Review, Western Springs IL, 26 March 2020) On 19 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a temporary framework for State aid to support the economy amidst the consequences of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The temporary framework provides for five types of aid, including...

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Issue: European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables

2019/12/30

European Parliament asks Member states to end ECA support for fossil fuel projects

(European Parliament, Brussels, 28 November 2019) The European Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid stresses that the EU’s budget should be consistent with its international commitments on sustainable development and its mid- and long-term...

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Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining

2017/08/30

EU Commission underscores the role of ECAs in achieving Paris goals

(ECA Watch & Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 24 August 2017) In response to a European Greens Parliamentary question, Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, replied...

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Country: Netherlands ECAs: Atradius Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables Member: Both ENDS

2015/01/30

MEPs challenge Trade Commissioner on controversial paper contradicting EU policy on coal financing

(European Parliament, Brussels, 30 January 2015) Twelve members of the European Parliament from 5 of the 7 political groupings in the Parliament have written EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström to express their "deep concerns about a non-paper for an EU position for the OECD...

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Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining

2015/01/29

Some coal plant exports should get financial aid: EU policy paper

(Reuters, Brussels, 15 January 2015) European makers of equipment for coal-fired power plants should receive financial help to export it, an EU discussion paper seen by Reuters says, in a clash with the bloc's declared aim to lead the global fight against climate change. Coal is the most...

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Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining

Letters & statements 2014/10/14

NGOs call on OECD countries to reject any coal financing via ECAs

ECA Watch in cooperation with the WWF European Policy Office and other European and global NGOs, has written a letter to Finance Ministries and Export Credit Agencies to move those public institutions away from coal financing and subsidies in the...

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Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining

Letters & statements 2014/06/10