(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 2 May 2022) Export Development Canada has agreed to partly guarantee $1-billion of loans which the Bank of Montreal plans to make to companies in carbon-intensive industries in order to help them lower their emissions, reducing the risks of the bank’s foray into...
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2022/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Institute of Export and International Trade, London, 18 May 2022) UK International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said green trade is central to growing the UK’s economy, achieving net zero and driving prosperity, as well as “De-Putinising” the global economy by cutting reliance on...
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2022/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 19 May 2022) Today, 122 civil society groups are releasing letters to eleven government signatories to the Glasgow Statement on International Public Support for the Clean Energy Transition, laying out the actions they must take as soon as possible to meet...
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2022/05/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 25 May 2022) A South Korean court has dismissed an application by traditional owners in Australia for an injunction to prevent South Korean public finance institutions from supporting a proposed gas export project. Representatives of the...
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2022/05/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track, Re:Common
(Banktrack, Nijmegen, 20 May 2022) The coalition to #StopEACOP celebrates this week’s news that five banks including Deutsche Bank, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley have confirmed they will not join the project loan to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)....
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2022/04/30
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change
(Regeringen, Stockholm, 12 April 2022) Google translation. The Swedish Riksdag has proposed a budget amendment for 2022 that would authorize the government to issue guarantees of up to SEK 3 billion (US$305 million) for the purpose of insuring critical raw material imports for industry...
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2022/04/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change
(Xinhua, Beijing, 17 April 2022) China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) says it has stepped up support for the country's green industries by providing more export credit insurance. Since the start of 2021, the company has insured over 150 green projects, with the sum insured...
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2022/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 April 2022) Friends of the Earth says it will continue its fight against UKEF's decision to provide US$1.15bn of support to a natural gas project in Mozambique, after a split judgement from two UK High Court judges. In a judgement handed down last month, Justice...
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2022/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, Washington, 13 April 2022) The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a plan Thursday that could yield a flood of financing for U.S. energy ventures, including wind and solar projects, battery manufacturing and terminals to sell LNG overseas. The bank’s board voted 3-0 on a formal policy...
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2022/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(VICE, Brooklyn, 6 April 2022) The South Korean government has shelved plans to pour $700 million into a massive $4.7 billion gas project in Australia’s Timor Sea far north offshore after Tiwi Island Indigenous leaders from the region took them to court, according to government meeting notes...
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2022/04/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Observer, Vancouver, 6 April 2022) Canada’s recently published emissions reduction plan provides a roadmap for how Ottawa plans to hit its 2030 climate targets, but critics say until the financial sector is aligned with climate goals, the government's plans are “derelict.”...
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2022/04/29
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(New York Times, Kampala, 8 April 2022) Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate justice activist, notes that this week, the panel of climate experts convened by the UN delivered a clear message: To stand a chance of curbing dangerous climate change, we can’t afford to build more fossil fuel...
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2022/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 April 2022) Momentum continues to build around environmental, social and governance efforts in trade and trade finance. Every week, we report on encouraging new developments, including a recent decision by the European Council that gives export credit agencies (...
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2022/04/29
Issue: Climate Change
(Brisbane Times, Brisbane, 11 April 2022) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, with its direct language and whole chapter on finance, should be a wake-up call to those in the business community who are avoiding taking genuine action on climate change. United...
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2022/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Oil Change, Washington, 28 April 2022) Public finance institutions shape our future energy systems. They are uniquely positioned to catalyze a just, transformative, and rapid transition to clean energy and a livable future — if we can hold them accountable to their public-interest mandates....
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