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2023/11/29

Small nuclear reactor, funded by JBIC, is cancelled

(Friends of the Earth Japan, 13 November 2023) NuScale Power, a U.S.-based company, has announced the cancellation of its plan to build a small nuclear reactor in Idaho, U.S. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), had invested in NuScale in April last year, together with JGC...

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Country: Japan, USA ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation Issue: Climate Change, Nuclear, Renewables, Transparency Member: Friends of the Earth Japan

2023/08/31

Australian Government sued for failing to report the climate and biodiversity impacts of subsidising fossil fuel projects

(Jubilee Australia, NSW, 18 July 2023) Jubilee Australia, a human rights and environmental organisation, has filed legal proceedings this morning (18th July) in the Federal Court of Australia against federal government agencies that subsidise new fossil fuel projects but don’t disclose the full...

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Country: Australia ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency Member: Jubilee Australia

2023/05/30

Australian roundtable notes ECA support crucial to transition

(Infrastructue Investor, Sydney, 19 May 2023) Australia’s infrastructure sector has centred on privatisations for decades. But a rapidly changing world calls for more greenfield development. Australia’s transition prospects have recently been boosted by the country’s most significant emissions...

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Country: Australia Issue: Climate Change, Renewables

2023/04/30

Export Finance Australia (EFA) can no longer justify fossil fuel funding

(Lowy Institute, Sydney, 6 April 2023) Since 2009 EFA has helped to underwrite global heating by providing roughly AU$1.69 billion to fossil fuel firms, while offering a relatively paltry AU$20 million for renewable energy projects. Last year, many of Australia’s key allies signed the so-called...

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Country: Australia ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables

2021/07/29

Australian ECA gives 80X more to fossil fuel projects than renewables

(Guardian, Sydney, 6 July 2021) Australia’s export credit agency provided more than $1.5bn in finance to fossil fuel projects between 2009 and 2020, about 80X what it spent on renewables, according to a new report from Jubilee Australia. Over the same 11-year period, covering the hottest years...

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Country: Australia ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency Member: Jubilee Australia

2020/12/30

China, Japan, and S. Korea see $205 billion renewable energy market in Southeast Asia

(Webwire, Tokyo, 15 December 2020) A report from Greenpeace Japan identifies a US$205 billion opportunity for [ECA] renewable energy finance in...

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Country: China, Japan, Korea Issue: Climate Change, Renewables

2020/09/29

ECAs back $9.5 billion financing for Russia's Arctic LNG 2

(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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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

2020/07/30

Japan’s plan to curb coal plant lending has major “loopholes”

(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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Country: Japan ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables

2016/09/29

CSO Comments on Efic Policies and Procedures for environmental and social review of transactions

(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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Country: Australia ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables, Transparency

2014/11/27

Japan coal power plant export push hits U.S. Resistance

(Freight News, Piraeus Greece, 24 October 2014) The United States has challenged the Japanese government over moves to ramp up exports of coal-fired power technology and to offer cheap loans to lure buyers, according to a U.S. source with direct knowledge of the matter... Japan’s shipments of...

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Country: Japan, USA ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables