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2021/10/12
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
Governments worsen climate crisis with USD billions in export finance
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2021/09/29
Country: Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Netherlands
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Technology, London, 16 September 2021) Dutch floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) operator SBM Offshore has completed the largest project financing in its history, of the vessel FPSO Sepetiba, for a total of $1.6bn. SBM Offshore was established in 1862 and its main...
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2021/09/29
Issue: Human Rights
(IISD, Winnipeg, 16 September 2021) A UN Special Rapporteur has issued 2 reports on human rights in the area of hazardous substances. The report calls for phasing out subsidies and export credit and guarantees for fossil fuel extraction, plastics production facilities, and plastic-to-energy...
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2021/09/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(ANSA, Rome, 14 September 2021) The global economy's rebound from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will see Italian exports return to pre-pandemic levels this year and grow further in the coming years, export credit agency SACE said in a report on Tuesday. SACE forecast that Italian exports...
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2021/09/29
Issue: Debt, Human Rights
(Bloomberg Opinion, 7 September 2021) In an opinion written for Bloomberg, the former Governor of the central bank of Afghanistan (DAB) notes: "There are optimistic suggestions that the hard-won integration of Afghanistan into the global economy will remain despite the ascendancy of the Taliban...
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2021/09/29
Country: Saudi Arabia
(Saudi Gazette, Jeddah, 3 September 2021) The Saudi Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank) has signed an agreement with the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), to launch a special insurance product that helps Saudi banks to provide more credit facilities for...
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2021/09/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(Global Legal Chronicle, Rome, 2 September 2021) A syndicate of lenders, including Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, KfW IPEX-Bank, Société Générale, Banco Santander and Instituto de Crédito Oficial E.P.E. – ICO, provided a US$811 million syndicated credit facility backed by the Italian export credit...
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2021/09/29
Issue: BRIC countries
(Business Standard, New Delhi, 31 August 2021) Exim Bank of India has extended a line of credit of $100 million on behalf of the Indian government to the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) to develop infrastructure in the continent and boost economic revival of countries in the region,...
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2021/09/29
Issue: Climate Change
(Bizcommunity, Cape Town, 23 September 2021) A clear call to action to rethink the sustainability performance of the export finance market has come out of an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) white paper. Released at a major event during United Nations (UN) General Assembly week and...
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2021/09/29
Country: Sweden
Issue: Climate Change
(EKN, Stockholm, 15 September 2021) EKN launches a new credit guarantee to facilitate financing of green exports as well as green transition projects within Swedish exporting companies. The new guarantee covers the bank’s risk up to 80 percent instead of previously 50 percent, which increases...
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2021/09/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Energy Live News, London, 23 September 2021) The UKEF has committed to making all of its £50 billion capacity carbon-neutral by 2050 on a net basis. Through its new climate strategy, the country’s export credit agency will increase its support for clean growth, renewables and climate...
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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 15 September 2021) A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros. In the report, the organisations examine...
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2021/09/29
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(The Times, London, 20 September 2021) The UK's UKEF has been accused of exaggerating how many businesses it has supported, of undermining the national drive towards net-zero carbon emissions and of doing too little to help smaller exporters. MPs on the Commons’ international trade committee...
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2021/09/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Wall Street Journal, Paris, 14 September 2021) The U.S., the European Union, South Korea and other wealthy nations are moving to forbid their export-financing agencies from supporting coal-fired power projects overseas, in an effort to end government support for a fuel that is one of the world...
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