(Global Trade Review, London, 15 July 2020) The Japanese government has tightened its lending criteria for overseas coal-fired power plants, including that it will not provide financial support for any host country that does not have a decarbonisation policy. However, it will continue...
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2020/07/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
2020/07/29
Country: France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, London, 10 July 2020) A decade after prospectors struck gas off Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, a consortium led by Total is signing contracts worth $16 billion to exploit it. One of the biggest investments in Africa, the project to extract, liquefy and export gas...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada, China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground, Friends of the Earth USA
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 June 2020) A recent report from Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. reveals that...
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2020/06/29
Country: Australia, Japan
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ICLG, London, 23 June 2020) A syndicate of company bank lenders and ECAs have enlisted Latham & Watkins to act as legal counsel in refinancing approximately USD 8.3 billion for one of the world’s largest oil and gas projects, in Australia. The development, named the Ichthys liquefied...
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2020/03/29
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 8 March 2020) Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal Ltd. Yet there was the Australian miner on a conference call last month announcing the refinancing and...
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2020/02/29
Country: Canada, China, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom
ECAs: Export Development Canada, Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Space Daily / AFP, Paris, 30 January 2020) Rich nations are funnelling cash through government-backed financial institutions to provide $30 billion to fossil fuel projects each year that "run counter to the Paris Agreement", a new analysis showed Thursday. The export credit agencies (ECAs) of...
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2020/01/29
Country: Japan
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Nation, Lagos, 20 January 2020) The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has appointed one of Japan’s leading banks and the core unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group – Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and one of Nigeria’s leading banks – Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, as...
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2019/11/29
Country: France, India, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Hydrocarbons Technology, London, 27 November 2019) The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $400m loan to support construction of the integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and liquefaction facility in Mozambique. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project is led by the French...
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2019/08/30
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Suai, 28 August 2019) Colonized by Portugal, invaded by Indonesia, suckered by Australia, Timor-Leste doesn’t need another abusive relationship. But the clock is now ticking for Timor-Leste to find international funding for a $12 billion energy project so work can start before its...
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2019/04/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Kyiv Post, Kyiv, 2 April 2019) China has been eyeing strategic investments and acquisitions across Ukraine for at least a year now – but a Chinese state-owned credit firm, Sinosure, appeared to up the stakes on April 2 as it inked a deal to provide $1 billion in insurance coverage to Ukrainian...
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2019/03/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 5 March 2019) A major oil and gas company wants Australian taxpayer money spent on overseas energy projects, stoking fears that a Morrison government plan to boost development in the Pacific is a smokescreen for fossil fuel investment. A government amendment to...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 February 2019) Australia’s export credit agency, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Efic), could receive an A$1bn cash injection of callable capital, a mandate to finance larger overseas projects and a new name as part of a bill expected to pass in the...
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2019/01/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney, 18 January 2019) The expansion of Papua New Guinea’s giant gas project is turning up the heat in the Asia Pacific project finance arena, with a slew of jumbo financings set to emerge from Oceania in the next 18 months. Stakeholders in the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas...
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2018/09/30
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Daily Trust, Abuja, 3 September 2018) China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has assured the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of its unflinching commitment towards securing funding for the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline project. Financing for the 40-inch by 614km AKK gas...
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2018/09/30
Country: Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Africa, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Daily Maverick, Johannesburg, 3 September 2018) The Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC) uses public funds for international projects it chooses to invest in. Right now, the agency is considering lending a part of $14-billion needed by US energy company Anadarko for a...
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