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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
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(ECA Watch, Washington, 26 June 2020) COVID-19 is a still-unfolding health crisis affecting every economy, putting the health and livelihoods of billions at risk. Almost every government has developed response packages that attempt to use all the tools at their disposal to keep their economies...
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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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2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
(ECA-Watch, Amsterdam, 29 June 2020) As part of continued advocacy with the European institutions on Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), European groups are working to enhance the reporting requirements of the EU ECAs under EU...
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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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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 May 2020) This month's news is dominated by vast amounts of export credit funding approved to shore up companies facing an international collapse of consumption, production and trade resulting from the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. How much government support is going to...
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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
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Renewables
(ReNews, Winchester, 10 March 2020) The European Commission has presented a new Industrial Strategy to help Europe achieve its goal of climate neutrality by 2050, while maintaining European industry's global competitiveness. These include comprehensive measures to modernise and decarbonise...
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