(Global Trade Review, London, 17 July 2024) Climate campaigners have accused Switzerland’s export credit agency (ECA) of “watering down” its climate commitments, after it scrapped a pledge to end all support for the fossil fuel sector. Swiss Export Risk Insurance (Serv) was...
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2024/07/30
Country: Switzerland
ECAs: Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2024/07/30
Country: United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs UK, 27 July 2024) As world leaders gathered in Dubai at the start of COP28 last December, the United Arab Emirates dropped a surprise headline-grabbing announcement. The host nation of the UN talks...
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2024/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(E&E News, Arlington, 17 June 2024) The fate of an international plan to end a major funding source for fossil fuel projects could be decided this week by U.S. officials. Some of the world’s richest countries will meet behind closed doors starting Monday to discuss a European Union-led...
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2024/06/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Nigerian Tribune online, Ibadan, 26 June 2024) Civil society organisations have called on the Chinese government to rescind its decisions to build crude oil pipeline across East African countries. In an open letter to the Chinese Embassy’s Charge d’affaire Zhang Yi, Smith Nwokocha of StopEACOP...
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2024/06/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Asharq Al-Awsat, London, 1 July 2024) QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC announced on Monday [10 October 2023?] that they have secured $4.4 billion financing for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals project. The project financing comprises commercial and Islamic lenders and a group...
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2024/06/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Renewables, Transparency
(UKEF, London, 25 June 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF) adopted the Equator Principles (EPs) on 31 March 2016, joining what now comprises 128 other banks and Export Credit Agencies (EP Financial Institutions or EPFIs) in applying this global guidance for environmental, social, and human rights (...
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2024/06/30
Country: Australia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 4 June 2024) Perth-headquartered Woodside Energy has secured a US$1.45bn loan package from Japan’s export credit agency and a group of private lenders, backing an LNG development off the Australian coast. As part of the deal, the Japan Bank for International...
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2024/06/01
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Living on Earth, Lee NH, 3 May 2024) Despite an international agreement to phase out financing for fossil fuel projects abroad, the Biden administration recently approved a $500 million dollar loan guarantee for an oil and gas drilling project in Bahrain. The Biden-Harris administration is...
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2024/05/31
Country: USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sierra Club, Washington, 23 May 2024) Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reintroduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, the most comprehensive legislative proposal to address the billions in special interest subsidies that disproportionately flow to the oil, gas,...
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2024/04/29
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Dispatch, Kampala, 5 April 2024) Uganda’s presidency confirmed that China has extended an invitation to Uganda’s Energy minister to visit Beijing for discussions on the country’s $5 billion 1,445-km (898-mile) crude oil pipeline project. This development offers hope for progress in...
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2024/04/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 4 April 2024) Global commodity trader Trafigura has secured a US$560mn facility from Japan’s export credit agency and SMBC that will fund the delivery of natural gas to the East Asian country. The transaction, signed on March 27, comprises a US$390mn loan from the...
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2024/04/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 15 April 2024) In 2021, President Biden committed to increase U.S. international climate finance to over $11.4...
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2024/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Price of Oil, Washington, 9 April 2024) This new report, “Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2020-2022 and finds they are still backing at least USD...
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2024/04/29
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, G7, OECD
(SACE, Rome, 19 April 2024) The leaders of official export credit agencies from the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the USA – met on April 16th, in Tokyo, hosted by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), to discuss recent business trends and...
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2024/04/29
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Bank Track, Friends of the Earth USA
(Global Trade Review, London, 17 April 2024) Financial backers are continuing to assess whether they should reaffirm their support for a multi-billion-dollar LNG project in Mozambique as operator Total looks to restart work. The project was suspended in 2021 after insurgents known as the...
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