(Drill or Drop, London, 6 December 2022) Government approval of $1.5bn financing for a liquified natural gas project in Mozambique has been challenged at the Court of Appeal this morning (Tuesday 5 December 2022). A year ago, a case brought by Friends of the Earth ended in deadlock, when two...
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2022/12/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2022/12/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney. 6 December 2022) Papua New Guinea's state-owned Kumul Petroleum is in talks with Australia's export credit agency to help fund a $1.1-billion acquisition of a 5% stake in the PNG LNG project from Santos Ltd (STO.AX). Santos announced in September that Kumul had made a binding...
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2022/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International, urgewald
(Oil Change International, Washington, 7 December 2022) A German government State Secretary has revealed a pipeline of fossil fuel projects that shows a lack of seriousness about keeping Germany’s climate promise. The Government stated that it “currently has ten individual applications for...
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2022/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(TFI Global News, Noida Uttar Pradesh, 29 December 2023) German-African Business Association: Ever since the Russia-Ukraine war the importance of Africa has skyrocketed. Now every major power today wants to expand their footprint in the continent. Today there is a great surge of foreign...
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2022/12/28
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Fitch, Milan, 29 November 2022) Fitch Ratings has affirmed that SACE's shares were transferred back to the national government from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (BBB/Stable) in March 2022, changing SACE's mission from an unregulated export credit insurer to a government agency underwriting...
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2022/12/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Greenpeace, Toronto, 12 December 2022) Canada has joined the growing ranks of nations promising to end international financing of fossil fuels (though there are some worrisome exceptions). The Financial Post immediately warned that without taxpayer subsidies it would be more expensive for...
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2022/11/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International, Re:Common
(Oil Change International, Washington, 30 November 2022) Despite pledging to stop international financing for fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022, new analysis shows that the Italian Government is continuing to actively consider financing for major international fossil fuel projects. Taken...
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2022/11/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Yahoo News, Sydney, 1 November 2022) Australia is being urged to change course and end taxpayer-funded investment in fossil fuel projects. Ahead of climate talks in Cairo, campaigners are calling for the Albanese government to join a group of countries that last year pledged to end...
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2022/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Les Amis de la Terre, Oil Change International, Re:Common, urgewald
(Price of Oil, Washington, November 2022) This document signed by 54 international civil society organizations outlines how the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits can align with the Paris Agreement warming target of 1.5°C by placing restrictions on export support for oil...
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2022/11/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Financial Management Magazine, Durham, 4 November 2022) As noted in our October What's New, ten European countries had agreed to spell out this year how they will limit export finance support for overseas fossil fuel projects. But they shelved...
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2022/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, G20, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 1 November 2022) OCI's new report “At a Crossroads: Assessing G20 and MDB international energy finance ahead of stop funding fossils pledge deadline” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2019-2021 and...
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2022/10/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth US, Washington, 24 October 2022) Friends of the Earth US has produced a 16 page backgrounder on U.S. international energy finance ahead of the COP27 Deadline to Stop Funding Fossils. From 2010 to 2021, the United States’ major trade and development finance institutions,...
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2022/10/29
Country: Brazil
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(UpStream Online, Oslo, 3 October 2022) The world needs to put the right emphasis onto the security aspect of energy policy, with deep-water oil and gas developments playing a key role in this reset, Bruno Chabas, head of Dutch floating production giant SBM Offshore told an audience at the Rio...
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2022/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 12 October 2022) Finland has joined a growing list of countries making good on a key pledge from the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, by releasing a new policy ending almost all support for fossil fuels via Finnvera, the Finnish Government’s...
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2022/09/28
Country: Canada, France, Germany, USA
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 26 September 2022) the French Government has published a new policy that restricts public finance for fossil fuels from the French export credit agency, BPIFrance. This policy is meant to implement France’s commitment to end international public finance...
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