(Business Standard, New Delhi, 17 June 2016) A US-based think tank today said the Bangladesh-India Maitree project could effectively end up in a financial mess. The coal-based power plant proposed to be built near the city of Khulna, close to the Sundarbans mangrove forest, is a joint venture...
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2016/06/28
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2016/05/31
Country: China, Malaysia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Stockhouse Publishing, Vancouver, 6 May 2016) China's Yudean Group joins Attarat Power Company as a strategic investor in the Attarat Power Company (APCO) a subsidiary of Eesti Energia of Estonia, the world's biggest oil shale to energy company. Yudean has agreed to purchase 45% of the shares...
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2016/05/02
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the OECD sector...
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2016/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the...
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2016/04/30
Country: Turkey
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sabanci University, Istanbul, Novermber 2015) A November 2015 report from the Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center recently translated to English addresses the current status of coal in Turkey as an energy and greenhouse gas source, its impacts on health, the association between...
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2016/04/30
Country: India
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change
(Bank Track, Nijmegen, 19 April 2016) The proposed Rampal coal-fired power plant (also known as the Maitree Super Thermal Power Project) in Bangladesh with the EPs. A...
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2016/02/26
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Trade & Export Finance, London, 8 February 2016) Low prices and dwindling sources of finance are forcing coal producers to turn increasingly to export credit agencies (ECAs) to support their capital needs. But ECAs and their governments, increasingly driven by environmental concerns, show...
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2016/01/27
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, OECD, Renewables
(International Rivers, Berkeley, 3 December 2015) At the Paris COP, 500 NGOs from 85 countries published a manifesto on 10 Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects. The manifesto explicitly refers to the inclusion of large hydro projects in the special terms...
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2015/12/31
Issue: Climate Change
(Environmental Finance, London, 1 December 2015) The pledge of $100 billion by 2020 (from developed to developing countries) may be a nice round number for politicians to reference but it is, in fact, an arbitrary figure that is grounded in political, not scientific, analysis. And it is...
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2015/12/31
Issue: Climate Change
(The Examiner, 7 December 2015) Recently eleven banks including the World Bank, European Investment Bank and Credit Agricole, announced the launch of ‘Five Voluntary Principles for Mainstreaming Climate Actions Within Financial Institutions’. On Monday December 7, at the UNFCCC COP21 Climate...
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2015/11/30
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, OECD
(Friends of the Earth, Paris, 18 November 2015) After nearly two years of discussions, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development member countries have finally reached an agreement on reducing their support to some coal plants through their export credit agencies...
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2015/11/30
Country: Brazil
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 18 November 2015) Brazilian national oil company Petrobras has concluded negotiations with international export credit agencies (ECAs) for a total of US$1.84bn. According to a company statement, this financing will contribute towards its fundraising efforts...
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2015/11/18
Issue: Climate Change, OECD
Posted Nov. 18, 2015
PARIS, FRANCE – After nearly two years of discussions, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development member countries have finally reached an agreement on reducing their support to some coal plants through their export credit agencies. The...
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2015/10/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 22 October 2015) We have given a "climate grade" to key countries for their climate actions and new targets in the lead-in to the Paris climate agreement. Nobody is receiving top marks - an "A+" - but some countries are receiving failing grades. We...
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2015/10/30
(CS Solutions Blog, 26 October 2015) International owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, GasLog Ltd. has completed an export credit agency-backed debt financing of USD 1.3 billion with 14 banks for its newbuilding program. The so called Newbuild Facility will include eight... more
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(CS Solutions Blog, 26 October 2015) International owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, GasLog Ltd. has completed an export credit agency-backed debt financing of USD 1.3 billion with 14 banks for its newbuilding program. The so called Newbuild Facility will include eight...