(Reuters, Berlin, 25 July 2023) Environmental groups on Tuesday criticized Germany's draft policy on export credit guarantees as too vague and soft on financing for natural gas projects, as Berlin attempts a balancing act between climate protection and energy security. Germany supports exports...
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2023/07/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
2023/06/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 28 June 2023) Mercuria has secured over US$5bn in new and renewed financing facilities, including its first funding backed by an export credit agency (ECA). The global commodities trader, which focuses on energy products, metals and minerals, says it has closed...
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2023/06/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Hydrocarbon Engineering, Surrey, 13 June 2023) Italy’s State Export Credit Agency (SACE) has signed a financial memorandum with Uzbekistan’s largest oil company, Saneg, concerning an innovative methanol-to-olefin gas chemical complex (GCC MTO), that is currently under construction in the...
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2023/06/29
Country: Norway, Turkey
Issue: Climate Change
(Enviro News, Lagos, 9 June 2023) The Norwegian government has been accused of climate hypocrisy after it emerged that the government export credit agency, Eksfin, has approved finance for the Sakarya gas field in the Black Sea. The Sakarya gas field project, owned by Turkish Petroleum, a...
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2023/06/29
Country: Brazil
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Yahoo Finance, Brazil, 20 June 2023) SBM Offshore is pleased to announce it has signed the project financing of its floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Alexandre de Gusmão for a total of US$1.615 billion. The project financing is provided by a consortium of 12 international...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Byline Times, London, 16 June 2023) OECD countries are continuing to pour tens of billions of pounds into fossil fuel projects, despite their obligations to switch to clean energy sources. Advanced economies are breaking their own climate change obligations by investing massively in fossil...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Price of Oil, Paris, 23 June 2023) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently agreed on terms and conditions for climate-friendly export financing as part of its revised ...
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2023/06/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Upstream Online, London, 23 June 2023) The UK’s top court has thrown out an application by Friends of the Earth (FoE) to appeal a case it lost earlier this year against the government’s funding of TotalEnergies’ $20 billion Mozambique LNG project. FoE had argued in the Court of Appeal in...
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2023/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, OECD
(TFX News, London, 31 May 2023) The spectre of increasing sovereign debt has the potential to swamp future export finance deals and projects in several African jurisdictions. The changes to the OECD Arrangement on officially supported export credit...
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2023/06/29
Country: Indonesia, Italy, Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Reuters, Jakarta, 24 June 2023) Indonesia's state energy company Pertamina (PERTM.UL) reached a $3.1 billion financing deal with a number of export credit agencies and commercial banks to fund the upgrade of its Balikpapan refinery, the company said on Saturday. The lenders include export...
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2023/05/31
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Swedwatch, Stockholm, 27 April 2023) Despite promises to make financial flows consistent with a low-carbon economy, EU member states continue to provide financial support to the fossil fuel industry through export credits. It is time that the EU Commission replaces its outdated policy with new...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Reinsurance News, Brighton, 15 May 2023) Berne Union, the global association for the export credit and investment insurance industry, has reported that its market showed “strong growth” across business lines in 2022 and a fall in claims paid overall. Highlights from the year’s data show that...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(IFC, Washington, no date 2023) One of the key goals of the Paris Agreement is to ensure that financial flows are consistent with a pathway toward low emissions and climate resilient development. In 2020, The International Finance Corporation (IFC) the World Bank’s private sector arm launched...
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2023/05/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables
(Infrastructue Investor, Sydney, 19 May 2023) Australia’s infrastructure sector has centred on privatisations for decades. But a rapidly changing world calls for more greenfield development. Australia’s transition prospects have recently been boosted by the country’s most significant emissions...
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2023/05/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 4 May 2023) The number of financial institutions globally that have committed to coal divestments has doubled in the past three years, but it remains negligible in China, according to a new IEEFA study. While more than 200 “globally significant” companies...
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