Charged Affairs, Washington, 23 February 2025) The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID and foreign aid programs could reshape U.S. global influence, with a focus on strategic investments over humanitarian assistance. The shift may open opportunities for China to expand its influence,...
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2025/03/04
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
2025/03/03
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(Argus Media, Berlin, 29 January 2025) Export credit agencies’ green financing largely favors wealthy countries, leaving developing nations behind in the global energy transition. Critics call for more inclusive support to help emerging economies adopt sustainable infrastructure.
2024/12/31
Country: Russia, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, Debt, European Union, Transparency
(The Diplomat, Arlington, 5 December) The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to slap sanctions on Gazprombank poses a potential major headache for Uzbekistan’s burgeoning mining industry, which until now has relied on the Russian lender to finance a $4.8 billion mine expansion set to nearly...
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2024/12/31
Issue: Transparency
(Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Beirut, 23 December 2024) Data issued by the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (Daman) showed a growth in the value of outstanding commitments to secure investment, finance, and exports directed to the Arab region by 7% to reach about $...
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2024/11/30
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(BNN Bloomberg, Toronto, 19 November 2024) Colombia is hurrying to land a deal with the US that would unlock the first tranches of cash for a $40 billion climate investment plan before Donald Trump takes office. If that push fails, then China could be an option. Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Hacker News, Mountain View CA, 17 October 2024) As mounting climate concerns cause extreme weather events, & global efforts intensify to keep warming below 1.5°C, Oxfam calls on the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to cease funding fossil fuel projects to instead champion...
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2024/10/31
Country: Malaysia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, New York, 11 October 2024) The US Export-Import Bank authorized a $690 million loan to help build a petrochemical plant in Malaysia, despite objections from climate activists who say the project flouts Biden-Harris administration promises to halt financing for fossil fuel projects...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade, Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(Lexology, London, 30 October 2024) The US Defence Department's Office of Strategic Capital (OFC) is one of the newest entrants in the US Federal arsenal of finance tools for growth companies, providing loans between $10M and $150M to develop critical technologies vital to national security,...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Merrifield, 4 October 2024) Fossil fuel companies continue to be propped up by the government in the form of public financing like US EXIM. Often, these tax dollars are funding overseas fossil fuel projects wreaking havoc on our environment and local communities in places...
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2024/09/30
Country: Ukraine
Issue: Arms Trade, Human Rights, Transparency
(Government of Ukraine, Kiev, 16 September 2024) The Export Credit Agency (ECA) has signed the first war risk insurance contract for an investment loan. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko during the event “Economic Policy of...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Transparency
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 9 February 2024) Trade finance subsidies, usually provided by export credit agencies, are the predominant tool of industrial policy. This column discusses the effect of the effective shutdown of the Export–Import Bank of the US (EXIM) from 2015—2019...
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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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2024/09/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Renewables, Transparency
(Financial Times, New York, 23 September 2024) Coalition of 14 governments announces financing network for projects to provide raw materials required by tech industry. Western nations are directing their development finance and export credit agencies to work with private industry to support...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
(Guardian, London, 24 September 2024) Rich countries could raise five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires, research has shown. Developing nations are asking for...
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