(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 June 2020) A recent report from Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. reveals that...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada, China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground, Friends of the Earth USA
2020/06/29
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Oil & Gas Republic, Lagos, 1 June 2020) Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has secured $3 billion for the development of its Train 7 project. According to the company, the $3 billion is corporate financing from a group of 31 investors, building investor’s confidence in Nigeria’s oil and gas...
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2020/06/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Global Witness
(Global Witness, London, 12 June 2020) UKEF have been in the spotlight more and more over the last year for their disproportionate support for the fossil fuel industry. Last year, UKEF provided nearly £2 billion in taxpayer support for fossil fuel projects all over the world. Despite dozens of...
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2020/06/29
Country: Australia, Japan
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ICLG, London, 23 June 2020) A syndicate of company bank lenders and ECAs have enlisted Latham & Watkins to act as legal counsel in refinancing approximately USD 8.3 billion for one of the world’s largest oil and gas projects, in Australia. The development, named the Ichthys liquefied...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Winnipeg/Toronto, 4 June 2020) Canadian oil producers sideswiped by economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic have received no federal loans from EDC, seven weeks after the first lending program was announced, government and industry officials said on Thursday. The large-employer...
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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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2020/05/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
EDC is bailing out the fossil fuel industry. Will Canadians be given a full accounting of the costs?
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 4 May 2020) 2020 is a pivotal year for wealthy nations to ramp up their climate action plans, spelling out how they’ll make the deep emissions cuts needed between now and 2030. Instead, states are bolstering the very industries that must be phased out to avert disastrous...
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Client Earth, London, 12 November 2019) As the European Investment Bank (EIB) Board of Directors prepares to vote on excluding natural gas from its lending policy, lawyers have issued a clear warning: continuing to finance fossil fuels would breach the Bank’s legal duties. [While facing a...
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earch, Washington, 28 May 2020) Right after the mostly-rich and powerful G2O countries signed the Paris Agreement with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, they went home and continued with the business-as-usual public finance policies that directly undermined this goal...
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2020/04/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Toronto, 22 April 2020) Canada’s export credit agency will backstop loans to hard hit oil and gas producers, a document seen by Reuters showed, in the latest move by Ottawa to free up credit for the struggling energy industry. The relief comes as banks review borrowing limits in the...
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2020/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(CIS University of Zurich, 2 April 2020) ECAs are a hitherto under-researched contributor to lock-in of fossil fuel infrastructure. This study reviews external policies and standards as well as internal policies and commitments that may affect ECAs’ portfolios – ...
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2020/03/31
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(National Observer, Ottawa, 25 March 2020) Environmental groups praised political parties for coming together to help Canadians battle the effects of the coronavirus. They also argued that the new law’s broadening of Export Development Canada (EDC)’s mandate will make it easier to direct more...
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2020/03/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(Bank Track, Nijemgen, 20 March 2020) The latest version of the most comprehensive report on global banks' fossil fuel financing, Banking on Climate Change 2020, was released today, revealing that 35 global banks have not only been sustaining but expanding the fossil fuel sector with more than...
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2020/03/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Global Witness
(Business Green, London, 17 March 2020) The UK's export credit agency was today accused of breaching OECD guidelines governing multinational organisations, with campaigners accusing the government of "rank hypocrisy". NGO Global Witness has lodged a complaint with the Paris-based OECD, which...
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2020/03/29
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 8 March 2020) Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal Ltd. Yet there was the Australian miner on a conference call last month announcing the refinancing and...
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