(SACE, Rome, 19 April 2024) The leaders of official export credit agencies from the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the USA – met on April 16th, in Tokyo, hosted by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), to discuss recent business trends and...
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2024/04/29
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, G7, OECD
2024/04/29
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Friends of the Earth USA
(Global Trade Review, London, 17 April 2024) Financial backers are continuing to assess whether they should reaffirm their support for a multi-billion-dollar LNG project in Mozambique as operator Total looks to restart work. The project was suspended in 2021 after insurgents known as the...
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2023/12/31
Country: Japan, Korea, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 28 November 2023) Representatives of Friends of the Earth Japan & Oil Change International traveled to Texas & Louisiana in early November for a week-long tour, organized by ...
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2021/09/29
Country: Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Netherlands
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Technology, London, 16 September 2021) Dutch floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) operator SBM Offshore has completed the largest project financing in its history, of the vessel FPSO Sepetiba, for a total of $1.6bn. SBM Offshore was established in 1862 and its main...
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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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2020/07/29
Country: France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, London, 10 July 2020) A decade after prospectors struck gas off Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, a consortium led by Total is signing contracts worth $16 billion to exploit it. One of the biggest investments in Africa, the project to extract, liquefy and export gas...
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2015/11/30
Country: Brazil
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 18 November 2015) Brazilian national oil company Petrobras has concluded negotiations with international export credit agencies (ECAs) for a total of US$1.84bn. According to a company statement, this financing will contribute towards its fundraising efforts...
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2015/10/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 22 October 2015) We have given a "climate grade" to key countries for their climate actions and new targets in the lead-in to the Paris climate agreement. Nobody is receiving top marks - an "A+" - but some countries are receiving failing grades. We...
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2015/10/30
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ClimateWire, Washington, 27 October 2015) The Obama administration has crafted a deal with Japan to restrict financing for overseas coal projects, several sources told ClimateWire. The agreement is aimed at influencing other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
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2015/07/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Brussels, 27 July 2015) EU bosses are pushing to resolve a clash between industry and environmental policy with a new strategy to phase out funding to export coal technology to developing nations, ahead of a meeting of leading economic powers on the issue. The European Commission, the...
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2015/06/30
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brussels, 12 June 2015) Talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidies ended in stalemate as Japan, the biggest user of the aid, led calls for more time in defiance of this week's G7 pledge on fossil fuel subsidies, sources said. The Paris-based Organization for...
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2014/11/27
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(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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