(Cape Cod Online, 26 February 2014) Cape Wind announced February 26th that a Danish credit agency has approved a $600 million loan for the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. Speaking at the GreenPower USA Offshore Wind Conference in Boston Cape Wind CEO Gordon said that EKF, the Danish Export...
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2014/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Project Syndicate, Davos, 24 January 2014) There is no bailout option for the earth’s climate. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Gurria noted "Our planet is warming dangerously. And, as the 2013 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear, our...
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2013/05/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Renewables
(Alawaba, Amman, 15 May 2013) Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable-energy company, and the US Ex-Im Bank, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which they will explore opportunities to structure and deploy up to $2bn worth of Ex-Im Bank’s finance supporting U.S. exports to Masdar’s future...
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2013/02/28
(Windpower Monthly, London, 28 February 20130) Europe's wind turbine manufacturers need to push outside of their traditional onshore markets is creating an ever-greater role for export credit agencies (ECAs) in project financing. With banks now highly risk averse, ECAs are being asked to increase... more
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
2012/12/31
(OECD, Paris, 13 November 2012) The OECD’s Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG) and the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits held a 1/2 day consultation with CSOs on 13 November. The purpose was two-fold: 1st, to update CSOs on recent... more
Issue: OECD, Renewables
2012/07/31
(OECD, Paris, 28 June 2012) The OECD Council has ratified the Recommendation on Common Approaches for Officially Supported Export Credits and Environmental and Social Due Diligence,... more
Issue: Common Approaches, Renewables
Letters & statements
2011/11/08
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, Nuclear, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
(8 November 2011) This letter from ECA Watch outlines the...
2011/10/12
(PressTV, London, 29 October 2011) Despite the British government's promise to refrain from backing investment overseas in “dirty fossil-fuel energy production,” it has emerged that the British official export credit agency ECGD is using taxpayers' money to support a multi-billion pound project... more
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
2010/12/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables
This site provides access to OECD Members' responses to surveys on aspects of the Common Approaches.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/12/02
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald
(December...
2005/08/06
August 12 , 2005 (Source: Proyecto Gato) — Six Belgian NGOs have issued a statement calling on Ducroire to improve its policies with respect to the OECD Recommendation on... more
ECAs: Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Issue: Common Approaches, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2004/06/14
Country: France
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
ECA-Watch discussion paper on ECA reform in favour of renewable energy export projects, written by Jörg Mühlenhoff, Friends of the Earth France, June 2004
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2003/09/01
An Assessment of Sustainable Development Achievements of ECA supported projects Two Years After OECD... more
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Renewables
An Assessment of Sustainable Development Achievements of ECA supported projects Two Years After OECD...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2003/02/01
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: FERN
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