(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 29 October 2021) The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), a public financial institution fully owned by the Government of Japan, announced in a press release today that it has decided to provide up to US $850 million for the LNG Canada Project....
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2021/10/31
Country: Canada, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
2021/01/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(FOE Japan, Tokyo, 29 January 2021) JBIC, a public financial institution, announced it's decision on December 28 to provide project financing of up to US $636 million to the Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power generation project in Vietnam. The private-sector financial institutions participating in the...
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2020/08/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Les Amis de la Terre
(ECA Watch members, 10 August 2020) This 9 page report finds that while ECA responses to COVID-19 are still quickly evolving, it’s now clear that these institutions are:
- Providing more favorable financing terms;
- Expanding the geographic scope of the projects and companies...
2017/10/29
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Re:Common, urgewald
(FOE US, Washington, 16 October 2017) Although at least seven major countries — including Canada, France, and Germany — have made commitments to phase out coal power domestically, their export credit agencies, or ECAs, have poured money into coal plants and other fossil fuel projects in other...
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2016/12/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Human Rights
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(FOE Japan, Tokyo, 5 December 2016) On December 5, eleven local Indonesian community leaders, who have continued to oppose the “Batang Coal-fired Power Plant Project” over five years now, visited the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) Jakarta office and submitted their objections...
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2007/11/03
(FERN, Brussels, 29 Nov. 2007) With a resounding majority (540 MEPs of 785 in favour), the European Parliament today passed a resolution on trade and climate change which calls for "the discontinuation of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for fossil fuel... more
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald