(Reuters, London, 18 September 2020) International lenders have lined up about $9.5 billion in financial support for a Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, a document seen by Reuters showed, even as such projects come under greater scrutiny over climate concerns. The $21 billion...
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2020/09/29
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
2020/08/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Les Amis de la Terre
(ECA Watch members, 10 August 2020) This 9 page report finds that while ECA responses to COVID-19 are still quickly evolving, it’s now clear that these institutions are:
- Providing more favorable financing terms;
- Expanding the geographic scope of the projects and companies...
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
(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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2020/06/29
Country: Denmark, United Kingdom
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Renewables
(Reuters, London, 16 June 2020) Britain’s National Grid has secured a $734 million loan to help finance the development of the 2 billion euro ($2.26 billion) power link it is building between Britain and Denmark. The multi-export credit agency covered green loan is made up of $488 million from...
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2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(ECA Watch, Washington, 26 June 2020) COVID-19 is a still-unfolding health crisis affecting every economy, putting the health and livelihoods of billions at risk. Almost every government has developed response packages that attempt to use all the tools at their disposal to keep their economies...
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 22 April 2020) This briefing outlines why continuing to rely on fossil fuels, in particular oil and gas, is not compatible with long-term recovery. Governments now face a choice: fund a just transition away from fossil fuels that protects workers,...
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2020/03/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Renewables
(ReNews, Winchester, 10 March 2020) The European Commission has presented a new Industrial Strategy to help Europe achieve its goal of climate neutrality by 2050, while maintaining European industry's global competitiveness. These include comprehensive measures to modernise and decarbonise...
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2020/03/29
Issue: European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Law Review, Western Springs IL, 26 March 2020) On 19 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a temporary framework for State aid to support the economy amidst the consequences of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The temporary framework provides for five types of aid, including...
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2020/02/29
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(TFX, London, 12 February 2020) EKN's director general Anna-Karin Jatko set the tone for the Swedish export credit agency’s seminar in Stockholm on 9 February noting Swedish industry’s impressive ability to transform itself. Two companies, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery and state-owned...
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2020/01/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(World Economic Forum, Geneva, 3 January 2020) To continue financing fossil fuel expansion is today’s equivalent of betting the bank - and the global economy - on subprime mortgage-backed securities over a decade ago; it is fuelling a crisis that, even if it generates short-term profit, will...
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2019/11/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Renewables
(Renewables Now, Fresno, 5 November 2019) The UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), will provide a TWD-9.2-billion (US$303m/EUR 272m) project finance guarantee to support the construction of the 376-MW Formosa II offshore wind project in Taiwanese waters. UK companies will be...
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2019/09/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(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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2019/05/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt, Renewables
(US General Accounting Office, Washington, 23 May 2019) The Export-Import Bank (EXIM) of the United States provides financing to support U.S. jobs and companies selling U.S. goods and services abroad. EXIM requires companies applying for certain financing to self-certify that they do not have...
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