(OECD, Paris, 13 September 2019) This OECD report estimates annual volumes of climate finance provided and mobilised by developed countries for developing countries in 2013-17. These estimates include bilateral and multilateral public finance, official-supported export credits and mobilised...
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2019/09/29
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Renewables
(Down to Earth, New Delhi, 4 September 2019) A stubbornly high $1.5 trillion global trade finance gap is hampering efforts to achieve the United Nations-mandated sustainable development goals (SDG), especially those pertaining to women’s economic empowerment, job creation and inclusive growth,...
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2019/09/28
Country: Austria
ECAs: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Renewables
(Global Capital, London, 5 September 2019) OeKB, Austria’s export credit agency, will go on roadshow next week to present its recently established sustainability bond framework to European investors. BNP Paribas, Danske Bank, HSBC and UniCredit won the mandate and will arrange a series of fixed...
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2019/01/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(UK Parliament, London, January 2019) The Terms of Reference, membership, witness submissions, witness guidelines and the calendar of the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into UK Export Finance are now available online.
2018/10/28
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Global Witness, London, 10 October 208) On the week that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its report on the scale of the challenge to limit the dangers of climate change, the near-simulanteous announcement of new UK Government support for oil and gas abroad has been...
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2018/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Observer Research Foundation Online, New Delhi, 19 April 2018) The role of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in promoting climate compatible development has been controversial. Despite independent and collaborative efforts from countries ensuring that [environmental degradation] is not an option...
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2018/02/01
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Renewables
(Kallanish Energy, Hammersmith, 5 January 201) With power demand in Southeast Asia expected to grow at roughly 4.6% per year in the next 10-plus years, baseload, low-cost coal-fired generation offers an investment opportunity of $250 billion over the next decade, Wood Mackenzie projects. The...
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2017/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2017) At the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017 a number of NGO, environmental and social movement organizations released briefings and research reports highlighting fossil fuel projects that are being funded by multilateral and national development...
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2017/10/29
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Re:Common, urgewald
(FOE US, Washington, 16 October 2017) Although at least seven major countries — including Canada, France, and Germany — have made commitments to phase out coal power domestically, their export credit agencies, or ECAs, have poured money into coal plants and other fossil fuel projects in other...
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2017/08/30
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS
(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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2017/07/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Guardian, London, 5 July 2017) The G20 nations provide four times more public financing to fossil fuels than to renewable energy, a report has revealed ahead of their summit in Hamburg, where Angela Merkel has said climate change will be at the heart of the agenda. The authors of the report...
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2016/09/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables, Transparency
(Jubilee Australia, Sydney, 9 September 2016) The Jubilee Australia Research Centre and Oxfam Australia have submitted comments on Efic Policies and Procedures for environmental and social review of transactions prior to a 2016 government review. They note that, although Efic’s approach to...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, OECD, Renewables
(International Rivers, Berkeley, 3 December 2015) At the Paris COP, 500 NGOs from 85 countries published a manifesto on 10 Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects. The manifesto explicitly refers to the inclusion of large hydro projects in the special terms...
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2015/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Renewables
Member: Corner House
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 April 2015) The Labour Party's Cole Commission has called for the combination of the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) agencies into one entity to achieve better co-ordination and support of British exporters....
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2015/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Reuters, Brussels, 9 February 2015) Rich nations provided nearly $15 billion over a decade from 2003 to 2013 to fund exports of coal-fired power plant and coal mining technology, data seen by Reuters shows, defying calls to end subsidies for the most polluting of the fossil fuels... The...
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