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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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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 15 September 2021) A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros. In the report, the organisations examine...
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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
Berlin 15.09.2021
A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros.
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2021/09/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Wall Street Journal, Paris, 14 September 2021) The U.S., the European Union, South Korea and other wealthy nations are moving to forbid their export-financing agencies from supporting coal-fired power projects overseas, in an effort to end government support for a fuel that is one of the world...
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2021/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 4 August 2021) Export credit agencies (ECAs) are lagging private financial institutions in setting targets for reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions and are missing opportunities as the energy transition gets underway. That’s the argument of a...
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2021/08/31
Country: France, Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Construction Review Online, Nairobi, 25 August 2021) Financed to the tune of US$ 1.2bn by a consortium of international banks including CDP Bank, Credit Agricole Bank, and BNP Paribas with the Italian Export Credit Agency (SACE) and the Egyptian Ministry of Finance as guarantors, the Middle...
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2021/08/31
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(All Africa, Cape Town, 23 August 2021) The withdrawal by risk averse lenders from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline has seen the cost of the project rise by 30 percent to $5 billion, meaning shareholders will be forced to dig deeper into their coffers to fund it. Shareholders of...
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2021/07/29
Country: France, Germany, Italy
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sky News, London, 16 July 2021) As deadly flooding ravages parts of Germany, the country's government is still considering massive investment in a Russian-led gas project known as Arctic LNG II. Germany has been accused of "pure play hypocrisy" for complaining of the impacts of climate change...
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2021/07/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Globe Newswire, Ottawa, 22 July 2021) Export Development Canada (EDC) is committing to net zero emissions by 2050 across its business lines and in its own global operations. The Crown corporation’s plan will include interim reduction targets for the most carbon intensive sectors for 2023 and...
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2021/07/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Jubilee Australia
(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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2021/07/29
Country: Mexico, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs, 14 July 2021) Campaigners have called on the US to review its longstanding support for Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company after a gas leak from one of its pipelines set the ocean on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The US export credit agency Exim bank has...
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2021/06/29
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Zawya, Dubai, 1 June 2021) The Attarat project will generate 3.7bln kWh of electricity, which can meet nearly one-fifth of Jordan's power demand. The first unit of the world's largest oil shale power plant, located at Attarat um Ghudran, Jordan, is now online, the project's Chinese contractor...
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2021/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Energy Fuse, Washington, 7 June 2021) Rich countries are using public financing to expand the construction of natural gas infrastructure in poorer countries around the world. Public-financing of gas in the Global South exceeds that of renewable energy by a factor of four, according to a new...
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2021/06/29
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 16 June 2021) Environmental campaign groups are switching their aim to public and private financing for natural gas projects as they get closer to winning the battle over thermal coal. But the only firm commitments on financing have been on thermal coal, where the...
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