(New York Times, Hanoi, 24 November 2018) Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change. Scientists have repeatedly warned of its looming dangers, most recently on Friday, when a...
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2018/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 4 October 2018) Four days before the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts forward its special report on 1.5°C, NGOs have released a new list of the world’s top 120 coal plant developers. “Building new coal plants is an assault on the Paris climate goals,” said...
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2017/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2017) At the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017 a number of NGO, environmental and social movement organizations released briefings and research reports highlighting fossil fuel projects that are being funded by multilateral and national development...
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2017/10/29
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Re:Common, urgewald
(FOE US, Washington, 16 October 2017) Although at least seven major countries — including Canada, France, and Germany — have made commitments to phase out coal power domestically, their export credit agencies, or ECAs, have poured money into coal plants and other fossil fuel projects in other...
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2017/06/30
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(Banktrack, Berlin 29 June 2017) The environmental NGO urgewald and its partners have revealed which companies are at the forefront of plans to expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by a staggering...
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2013/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Transparency
Member: urgewald
Three organizations want to enforce access to information regarding documents on export credit guarantees - Human rights assessments not disclosed
BERLIN, 9 December 2013 – Human rights organizations,...
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2013/10/31
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald
September 13, 2013
Participants to the Export Credit Arrangement
Members of the Export Credit Group
To the Participants and the Members:
We are writing to...
2007/11/03
(FERN, Brussels, 29 Nov. 2007) With a resounding majority (540 MEPs of 785 in favour), the European Parliament today passed a resolution on trade and climate change which calls for "the discontinuation of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for fossil fuel... more
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
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