(Globe & Mail, Toronto, 2 May 2022) Export Development Canada has agreed to partly guarantee $1-billion of loans which the Bank of Montreal plans to make to companies in carbon-intensive industries in order to help them lower their emissions, reducing the risks of the bank’s foray into...
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2022/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, Washington, 31 March 2022) The U.S. EXIM's board of directors on Thursday voted to formalize the bank's withdrawal from any further business in Russia and approved financing and to guarantee deals worth up to $381 million for Iraq, Sri Lanka and Albania. The board also voted to notify...
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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
(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: 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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2022/03/31
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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2022/03/30
Country: Korea, Russia, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Asia Financial, London & Hong Kong, 4 March 2022) South Korea said on Friday that it had won an exemption from expanded US export restrictions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Friday. The exemption means Korean companies won’t have to secure...
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2022/03/30
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(CBC, Winnipeg, 9 March 2022) In December 2020 Export Development Canada — a federal Crown credit corporation — signed a guarantee to back half of a $14-million loan to Winnipeg's 97% Russian owned Buhler Industries to support the company's ongoing operations. The manufacturer of farming...
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2022/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Sherrod Brown, Washington, 10 February 2022) U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, applauded Reta Jo Lewis’ confirmation as President of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. Lewis was confirmed by a vote of 56-40. Lewis...
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2022/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Perspectives Climate Group, Freiburg, 15 February 2022) Perspectives Climate Group has launched a new 41 page report which finds that despite commitments made at and after COP26, Export Development Canada's activities are not aligned with the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degree objective. In total,...
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2022/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
(New Age Business, Dhaka, 8 February 2022) The governments of Bangladesh and Canada are working on signing a free trade agreement and a foreign investment promotion and protection agreement to increase bilateral trade between the two countries. Masud Rahman, president of the Canada-Bangladesh...
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2022/01/31
Country: China, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Epoch Times, New York, 10 January 2022) Commentary: Thomas McArdle - While it’s bad enough that President Joe Biden has nominated in Reta Jo Lewis a longtime, committed appeaser of the oppressive, genocidal, and expansionist People’s Republic of China to chair the Export-Import Bank of the...
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2022/01/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Toronto Star, Ottawa, 17 January 2022) By Karen Hamilton, director of ECA Watch member Above Ground, a project of MakeWay Charitable Society that works to ensure companies based in Canada or supported by the Canadian state respect human rights and the environment wherever they operate. Fossil...
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2021/12/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Reuters, Washington, 10 December 2021) The Biden administration has ordered U.S. government agencies to immediately stop financing new carbon-intensive fossil fuel projects overseas and prioritize global collaborations to deploy clean energy technology, according to U.S. diplomatic cables seen...
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2021/12/31
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Epoch Times, Washington, 22 December 2021) Lithuania's regional and economic stability is facing challenges from the Chinese regime for allowing self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a runaway province, to open a de facto embassy in its capital Vilnius. In response, China recalled its...
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2021/11/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Reuters, Vilnius, 19 November 2021) Lithuania will sign a $600 million export credit agreement with the U.S. Export-Import Bank next week, Economy Minister Ausrine Armonaite told Reuters, days after China warned it would "take all necessary measures" after Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a de...
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