(Bloomberg, Washington, 13 April 2022) The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a plan Thursday that could yield a flood of financing for U.S. energy ventures, including wind and solar projects, battery manufacturing and terminals to sell LNG overseas. The bank’s board voted 3-0 on a formal policy...
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2022/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
2022/04/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Observer, Vancouver, 6 April 2022) Canada’s recently published emissions reduction plan provides a roadmap for how Ottawa plans to hit its 2030 climate targets, but critics say until the financial sector is aligned with climate goals, the government's plans are “derelict.”...
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2022/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 April 2022) Momentum continues to build around environmental, social and governance efforts in trade and trade finance. Every week, we report on encouraging new developments, including a recent decision by the European Council that gives export credit agencies (...
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2022/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Oil Change, Washington, 28 April 2022) Public finance institutions shape our future energy systems. They are uniquely positioned to catalyze a just, transformative, and rapid transition to clean energy and a livable future — if we can hold them accountable to their public-interest mandates....
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2022/03/31
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 28 March 2022) Canada’s export credit agency is looking to capitalize on the growing trend for sustainable investing, launching a set of new financial tools aimed at supporting socially oriented businesses and helping large greenhouse gas emitters reduce their carbon...
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2022/03/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 29 March 2022) As governments struggle to find fossil fuel supplies to offset dependence on imports from Russia, and transnational oil firms...
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2022/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(TXF News, London, 2 February 2022) The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors requires a sensible debate with a clear pathway to ensure business is not lost. Widespread sustainability within...
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2022/01/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Fossil Free ECAs, Amsterdam, 30 January 2022) We can’t solve the climate crisis if export credit agencies (ECAs) continue to bankroll fossil fuels. This campaign is designed to inform the public and tell the governments behind these agencies to immediately end all export credit and other...
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2021/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Guardian, London, 13 November 2021) A new alliance of financial institutions is committed to funding the changes necessary to avert climate catastrophe. Alliance Chair Mark Carney notes that six years ago, in Paris, countries reached an historic agreement to limit the global temperature rise...
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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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2021/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 4 August 2021) Export credit agencies (ECAs) are lagging private financial institutions in setting targets for reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions and are missing opportunities as the energy transition gets underway. That’s the argument of a...
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2021/07/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Jubilee Australia
(Guardian, Sydney, 6 July 2021) Australia’s export credit agency provided more than $1.5bn in finance to fossil fuel projects between 2009 and 2020, about 80X what it spent on renewables, according to a new report from Jubilee Australia. Over the same 11-year period, covering the hottest years...
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2021/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Review, Washington, 9 March 2021) Veronique de Rugy of the conservative leaning National Review notes that "asking Ex-Im officials to identify steps through which the United States can promote...
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2021/01/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 13 January 2021) Between 2016 and 2018, Canada provided more public finance for fossil fuels than any G20 country other than China, with Export Development Canada (EDC) providing on average $13.8 billion in support to oil and gas companies each year. Last month more than...
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2020/12/29
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Daily Monitor, Kampala, 30 November 2020) In the wake of Covid-19, there is need for governments to ensure a just recovery and transition to low-carbon energy systems for economic and social recovery. Clearly, the government continues to fail Ugandans in-terms of current fossil fuels...
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