(Atlantic Council, Washington, 8 November 2022) It is abundantly clear that achieving net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century is necessary to avoid the worst climate outcomes. However, the path to decarbonizing the energy sector is not “one-size-fits-all” between developed and developing...
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2022/11/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Financial Management Magazine, Durham, 4 November 2022) As noted in our October What's New, ten European countries had agreed to spell out this year how they will limit export finance support for overseas fossil fuel projects. But they shelved...
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2022/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 12 October 2022) Finland has joined a growing list of countries making good on a key pledge from the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, by releasing a new policy ending almost all support for fossil fuels via Finnvera, the Finnish Government’s...
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2022/10/29
Country: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Reuters, Brussels, 2 November 2022) Italy is attempting to weaken a pledge 10 European governments intend to make to stop export credit support for fossil fuel projects. The pressure from Italy comes as delegates from nearly 200 countries prepare for a United Nations climate change summit next...
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2022/10/29
Country: Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
(Korea Times, Soeul, 24 October 2022) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) is holding a meeting of environmental and social practitioners October 24-25 to help address environmental and social issues when providing officially supported export credits. Eximbank is co-hosting the 46th OECD...
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2022/09/28
Country: USA
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
TFX, London, 14 September 2022) The most recent edition of US EXIM’s Competitiveness Report makes plain that although US EXIM medium- and long-term support has grown...
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2022/08/30
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Transparency
(Trade Finance Global, London, 26 August 2022) The Berne Union released its latest Business Confidence Survey this week amid mounting geopolitical uncertainty. This latest rendition of the quarterly report shows that demand for export credit insurance is growing. This phenomenon appears to stem...
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2022/08/30
Issue: Renewables, Transparency
(JD Supra, Sausalito, 23 August 2022) In July 2022, the Equator Principles Association published a Guidance Note on how to apply the latest iteration of the Equator Principles (EP), EP4, during the Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) process. The Guidance Note is significant because...
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2022/08/29
Country: France, Germany, Italy
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, London, 23 August 2022) Through their little-known trade finance agencies, Germany, Italy and France have been among the biggest backers of Russian oil, gas and petrochemical development in the last several years, helping to enrich and insulate the country as it prepared to invade...
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2022/07/30
Country: France
ECAs: Bpifrance
Issue: Transparency
(BPIFrance, Paris) This Bpifrance web page explains how national ECAs can cooperate to support projects involving exports from several countries, thus enhancing official ECA "subsidies" for corporate exporters. "Bpifrance Assurance Export interacts regularly with foreign export credit agencies...
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2022/05/30
Country: Denmark
ECAs: Denmark EKF
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, Transparency
(European Commission, Brussels, 4 May 2022) The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, the reintroduction of a Danish short-term export credit scheme. Under the scheme, the Danish State can cover risks of single export transactions. The scheme was originally approved in...
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2022/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 19 May 2022) Today, 122 civil society groups are releasing letters to eleven government signatories to the Glasgow Statement on International Public Support for the Clean Energy Transition, laying out the actions they must take as soon as possible to meet...
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2022/04/30
Country: Russia
Issue: Aircraft, European Union, Transparency
(AssumeTech, Iceland, 21 April 2022) Aeroflot is considering the purchase of 8 chartered Airbus SE aircraft after the European Union provided a mechanism for lenders to dispose of some seized aircraft in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, TASS reported. The planes operate under so-called...
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2022/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 April 2022) Friends of the Earth says it will continue its fight against UKEF's decision to provide US$1.15bn of support to a natural gas project in Mozambique, after a split judgement from two UK High Court judges. In a judgement handed down last month, Justice...
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2022/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, Washington, 13 April 2022) The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a plan Thursday that could yield a flood of financing for U.S. energy ventures, including wind and solar projects, battery manufacturing and terminals to sell LNG overseas. The bank’s board voted 3-0 on a formal policy...
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