(Reuters, Paris, 30 January 2020) French public investment bank Bpifrance has raised several billion euros from private and sovereign investors for a new fund that can be used to fend off activist investors targeting French companies. The new fund would give extra financial firepower to...
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2020/02/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(350.org, New York, 24 February 2020) As thousands across Canada take to the streets in solidarity with indigenous Wet’suwet’en land defenders and hereditary chiefs, Export Development Canada (EDC) is considering handing over millions of dollars in public money to the very pipeline project that...
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2020/01/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(World Economic Forum, Geneva, 3 January 2020) To continue financing fossil fuel expansion is today’s equivalent of betting the bank - and the global economy - on subprime mortgage-backed securities over a decade ago; it is fuelling a crisis that, even if it generates short-term profit, will...
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2020/01/28
Country: United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Energy Live News, London, 24 January 2020) UKEF is financing fossil fuel projects overseas that are estimated to emit around 69 million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, according to a new investigation by BBC Newsnight and Greenpeace. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced the...
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2019/12/31
Country: Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Korea, Seoul, 23 December 2019) The Korea Export-Import Bank announced on Dec. 22 that it will provide US$375 million in loans to Daewoo Engineering & Construction’s LNG plant project in Nigeria. For the first time as a Korean company, Daewoo E&C won the LNG plant as a prime...
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2019/12/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(Unfriend Coal, London, 2 December 2019) The number of insurers withdrawing cover for coal has more than doubled in 2019 as the industry’s retreat from the sector accelerates and spreads beyond Europe, the Unfriend Coal campaign reveals today in its third annual scorecard on insurance, coal and...
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2019/12/30
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 December 2019) The Swedish government has presented a climate policy action plan with 132 measures to the Riksdag "taking a holistic approach...
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2019/12/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(European Parliament, Brussels, 28 November 2019) The European Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid stresses that the EU’s budget should be consistent with its international commitments on sustainable development and its mid- and long-term...
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2019/11/29
Country: France, India, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Hydrocarbons Technology, London, 27 November 2019) The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $400m loan to support construction of the integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and liquefaction facility in Mozambique. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project is led by the French...
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2019/11/28
Country: Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 17 November 2019) This report shows that the Dutch Export Credit Agency ADSB insured fossil fuel-related projects with a total insured value of € 10.8 billion in the period 2012-2018. This is more than 60% of its total insured value for that period and € 1.5 billion a...
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2019/11/28
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Paris, 5 November 2019) France is considering halting funding guarantees for energy projects abroad that involve fracking or flaring, according to a finance ministry report. The government aims to make its program of state guarantees for export financing more environmentally friendly...
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2019/10/30
Country: Indonesia, Korea
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, End Coal Financing, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Herald, Seoul, 7 October 2019) While South Korea has vowed to phase out fossil fuels and turn to clean energy to combat climate change and air pollution, it is supporting coal-fired power plants elsewhere - like in Indonesia. The government is virtually contributing to environmental...
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2019/10/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(MACAUHUB, Macau, 30 September 2019) Despite overwhelming evidence that the proect will emit at least 5.2 million tons of...
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2019/10/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Fox43 / CNN, Harrisburg, 4 October 2019) Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion used a fire engine to spray 1,800 liters of fake blood at Britain’s finance ministry in London on Thursday, in protest over what it says is the UK’s contradictory stance on tackling climate change. “The...
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2019/09/29
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
(FOE USA, Washington, 27 September 2019) The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s (EXIM) Board of Directors voted late yesterday to provide $5 billion in financing for a liquid natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique, making it the largest federal subsidy for a fossil fuel project in the bank’s history....
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