(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 November 2014) In the week of Nov. 18-21 a secretive body within the OECD discussed the potential revision of the “gentlemen’s agreement” under which they provide billions of...
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2014/11/27
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(BankTrack, Nijmegen, 29 October 2014) Ninety-two leading banks last year provided at least EUR 66 billion in financing to the coal industry, according to new coal financing data released today in BankTrack's ‘Banking on coal 2014' report. [1] The global campaigning network believes this...
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2014/11/27
Country: Japan, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Freight News, Piraeus Greece, 24 October 2014) The United States has challenged the Japanese government over moves to ramp up exports of coal-fired power technology and to offer cheap loans to lure buyers, according to a U.S. source with direct knowledge of the matter... Japan’s shipments of...
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Letters & statements
2014/11/19
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
18 November 2014
This week in Paris, a secretive body within the OECD will discuss the potential revision of the “gentlemen’s agreement” (1) under which they provide billions of dollars of public financing into the fossil fuel sector through their member export credit agencies.
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2014/10/24
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 29 October 2014) ECA Watch has written OECD ECA's, Finance Ministers and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría regarding upcoming discussions around coal financing through export credit agencies. We understand that they may be considering proposals to perpetuate coal...
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Letters & statements
2014/10/14
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
ECA Watch in cooperation with the WWF European Policy Office and other European and global NGOs, has written a letter to Finance Ministries and Export Credit Agencies to move those public institutions away from coal financing and subsidies in the...
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2014/09/23
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change
(Hindu Business Line, Mumbai, 1 September 2014) The State Bank of India (SBI) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) signed a dual-currency loan agreement of $152 million. “The loan is co-financed with the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd amounting to ¥13.5 billion ($131 million)...
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2014/08/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change
(Climate Progress, Washington, 7 July 2014) Last December the Export-Import Bank announced it would stop financing coal-fired power plants abroad, with a few exceptions in the poorest countries in the world. Now, as political pressure in the US Congress puts the bank’s future in to question,...
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2014/07/29
Country: France
ECAs: COFACE
Issue: Climate Change
(Le Figaro, Paris, 6 July 2014) The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development has called for an end to public subsidies for fossil fuels. After warning that our addiction to fossil fuels will destroy more wealth than it creates, he called on public and private investors...
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2014/06/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Oil Change International, Washington, June 2014) A new campaign toolkit provides guidance on how to identify the many forms of coal subsidies, to quantify them where possible, and to campaign to ultimately eliminate them. The toolkit covers national subsidies and public finance for coal,...
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2014/06/30
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Washington, 16 June 2014) The United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands will float a plan this week requiring new coal-fired power plants to meet a carbon pollution standard in order to receive public funding from the world's wealthiest countries, according to a draft seen by...
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Letters & statements
2014/06/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11 June 2014
International NGOs Call on Governments to #EndCoalFinance
On Monday, June 16 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Export Credit Group will meet to discuss...
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2014/05/31
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ECA Watch, Brussels, 20 May 2014) more than 30s NGO have endorsed recommendations provided by the briefing "Ending Fossil Fuel Support: the way...
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Letters & statements
2014/05/21
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre,
In May 2014, more than 50 NGO have endorsed common recommendations provided by the briefing 'Ending Fossil Fuel Support: the way forward' (to be downloaded on the bottom of this page). This briefing was developed by ECA Watch members in close collaboration with other international and regional...
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2014/02/28
Country: France, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre
(Friends of the Earth France, Paris 10 February 2014) Tomorrow French President Francois Hollande will meet US President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr Obama announced the end of US public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, he now wants other developed countries to follow suit. In...
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