(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 21 February 2014) On February 20th, the Austrian company Andritz received the “Eyesore of the Year 2013” award for its involvement in three dam projects with tremendous negative ecological and human rights impacts: Xayaburi in Laos, Belo Monte in Brazil as well as...
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2014/02/28
Country: Austria
ECAs: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Large Dams, Pulp and Paper
Member: Finance & Trade Watch
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/19
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Large Dams, Pulp and Paper, Transparency
Member:
Unearthing the shadowy world of Export Credit Agencies. This report examines some of the problems with...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Pulp and Paper
Member: Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, urgewald
(June 11, 2012) Press release launched on the day that more than 30 European non governmental organisations (NGOs) delivered a letter calling on governments not to fund a new pulp mill proposed by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's most controversial pulp and...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/03/18
Issue: Pulp and Paper, Transparency
Member: FERN
A briefing sheet from ECA Watch member FERN, looking at the...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2008/05/28
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Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Pulp and Paper
Member: FERN
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2007/08/07
(Pulp Mill Watch, Berlin, 6 August 2007). Over the next five years, the global pulp industry is planning a massive increase in worldwide production capacity by more than 25 million tonnes. A new report Banks, Pulp and People: A Primer on Upcoming International Pulp Projects notes: "Export Credit... more
Country: Australia, China
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2007/02/10
(Finnvera, Helsinki, 23 Feb. 2007) In November 2006, the International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency boards approved a $170 million investment by IFC and a guarantee of up to $350 million from MIGA for the Orion pulp mill project in Uruguay. Finnvera has now... more
ECAs: Finnvera
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2006/12/09
(PaperAge, Hingham MA, USA, 13 December 2006) - Spanish pulp, paper and wood products producer Ence yesterday announced a new location for its planned 500,000 ton per year pulp mill in Uruguay after Argentina complained it would harm tourism and the environment at its original site on the Argentina... more
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2006/09/02
(MercoPress, Montevideo, 22 September 2006) Spain’s ENCE announced Thursday that Uruguay remains a “strategic” player for its pulp industry interests in spite of having cancelled the construction of a pulp mill until a new location is agreed with Uruguay. Ence was planning to build the mill with... more
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2006/05/06
Complaints about giant paper mills and plantations, many funded by ECAs, are being heard with increasing frequency as the US$430 billion-a-year pulp industry expands.
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2006/04/08
(Finnish News Agency, Helsinki, 28 April 2006) Topi Vesteri, the vice chief executive of Finnvera, the Finnish export credit guarantee body, was quoted as saying in the Friday issue of business daily Kauppalehti that it would have to reappraise its role in the mill being built by pulp maker... more
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Finnvera
Issue: Pulp and Paper
2006/03/07
(IPS, Santiago, 11 March 2006) As tensions between the governments of Argentina and Uruguay over two pulp mills on a river dividing the countries appear to be abating, local residents and activists continue to demand a halt to both projects. The Argentinian... more
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación, Finnvera
Issue: OECD, Pulp and Paper
2006/02/10
(CEDHA, Argentina, 23 Jan. 2006) Nearly 40 000 Argentine citizens have petitioned the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Uruguayan government has allowed serious breaches of human rights caused by two pulp mills. The largest of the mills is sponsored by three Finnish pulp... more
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
ECAs: Finnvera
Issue: Human Rights, Pulp and Paper
External reports and publications
2006/01/23
ECAs: Finnvera
Issue: Pulp and Paper
(23 Jan 2006) Briefing note from...