(Financial Times, Brussels, 29 October 2023) The UK and EU will push the world’s richest countries to end subsidies for foreign oil and gas operations and coal mining at a closed-door OECD meeting next month, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposal to cut off the biggest...
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2023/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
2023/10/29
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Argus Media, Cape Town, 3 October 2023) Chinese export credit agency Sinosure is slated to complete talks with Uganda and oil companies TotalEnergies and CNOOC this month to provide $3bn for the country's crude export pipeline EACOP, after western financiers pulled out due to environmental...
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2023/10/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Oxfam America, Boston, 16 October 2023) This 51 page study assesses the alignment of the United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM) — the official export credit agency (ECA) of the US — with the country’s climate and development policy objectives derived from relevant Executive Orders (EOs), acts...
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2023/09/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 4 August 2023) Ottawa has taken a major step forward towards ending another significant component of its fossil fuel support. It announced last week a policy that makes Canada the first G20 country to publish a plan for delivering on the group’s 2009 commitment to phase...
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2023/09/29
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Kampala, 25 September 2023) Uganda is in advanced talks with Chinese export credit agency SINOSURE to provide credit for its crude oil pipeline after pressure from environmentalists forced some Western banks to recoil from the project, a top official said on Monday. The 1,445-...
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2023/09/29
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A., Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs UK, 7 September 2023) The US, Germany and Italy have been accused of backsliding on a Glasgow promise to end public subsidies to fossil fuel projects overseas. They are among rich countries providing billions of dollars of public subsidies to fossil fuel...
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2023/08/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Jubilee Australia
(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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2023/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Common Dreams, Portland, 29 August 2023) More than two dozen advocacy groups from Papua New Guinea, the Asia Pacific region, and the United States on Tuesday urged the U.S. export credit agency to reject a liquefied natural gas project that they warned “presents significant financial risks and...
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2023/08/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Al Jazeera, Washington, 30 July 2023) While the president's rhetoric aligns with global climate promises, his administration has approved massive fossil fuel projects. Ahead of its Climate...
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2023/08/31
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Energy Portal EU, London, 12 August 2023) The transition to clean energy is sparking intense debates as the climate crisis worsens. While cities, universities, and pension funds across the U.S. have divested from fossil fuels, the divestment movement has faced obstacles. In California, a bill...
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2023/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Sullivan&Cromwell LLP, New York, 10 August 2023) On July 14, the OECD published the revised text of the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits (the “Arrangement”). This forms part of the landmark modernisation of the Arrangement, as previewed in...
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2023/07/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Price of Oil, Washington, 11 July 2023) Italy’s export credit agency SACE has approved a $500 million guarantee in loans for the Talara oil refinery in Peru, once again breaking their commitment to end their international public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022. SACE is the biggest...
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2023/07/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Environment Governance Institue, Seeta Uganda, 18 June 2023) Thirty four African environmental and human rights civil society organisations and 13 international supporters wrote the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in anticipation of the 30th Afreximbank Annual General Meeting (AGM)...
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2023/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
(Price of Oil, Washington, 18 July 2023) Last Friday, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) — the official export credit agency of the U.S.— insured USD 400 million in revolving credit facilities for global commodities trader Trafigura. The newly approved transaction will allow...
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2023/06/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 28 June 2023) Mercuria has secured over US$5bn in new and renewed financing facilities, including its first funding backed by an export credit agency (ECA). The global commodities trader, which focuses on energy products, metals and minerals, says it has closed...
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