(The Australian, Sydney, 11 September 2017) A ban on government-backed loans for onshore coal and resource export operations will be overturned in the “national interest” to help fund billions of dollars in projects that are threatened by the growing reluctance of the major banks to back them...
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2017/09/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
2017/09/30
Country: Japan
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 29 September 2017) NGOs have urged the Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) to reject financing for the Long Phu-1 coal plant in Vietnam. In light of its recent accreditation at the Green Climate Fund and the commitment to addressing climate change that this...
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2017/06/30
Country: China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 19 June 2017) Iran has held negotiations with Italy’s Medibank and SACE export guarantee for €2 billion ($2.24 billion), Exim Bank of China for $30 billion, China Development Bank for $15 billion, Korea Export–Import Bank for $8 billion and Korea Trade Insurance...
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2017/06/30
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Your Oil & Gas News, Edinburgh, 1 June 2017) Yamal LNG announced the signing of agreements with several European banks, inter alia Raiffeisen Bank International AG and Intesa Sanpaolo for up to 425 million with insurance coverage provided by the Swedish export credit agency EKN and the...
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2017/06/30
Country: China, France, Italy, Japan
ECAs: COFACE, EXIM Bank China, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Maputo, 1 June 2017) Italian energy company Eni signed an $8 billion deal on Thursday to develop a gas field off the coast of Mozambique, the first of a series of projects that could transform the poor African nation into a major energy supplier to Asia. Developing the Coral South...
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2017/06/30
Country: China, France, Italy, Japan
ECAs: COFACE, EXIM Bank China, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Asset, Hong Kong, 14 June 2017) Three Chinese banks and 12 others as well as 5 ECAs, are participating in a US$8 billion-dollar syndicated project loan for a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project being developed off the coast of Mozambique by Italian energy company Eni. A project...
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2017/05/30
Country: Australia, India
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, End Coal Financing
(National Herald, New Delhi, 9 May 2017) Australia's Market Forces environmental finance group has...
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2017/05/30
Country: China
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 9 May 2017) China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) will provide export insurance for Chinese construction and production investments in Iran. According to a recently signed Meorandum of Understanding, the Chinese export credit agency will insure...
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2017/05/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: End Coal Financing, OECD
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 24 May 2017) On May 24, 2017, two Indonesian community representatives affected by the JIBC supported Cirebon Coal-fired Power Plant Project in West Java arrived in Japan and handed their objections to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) with...
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2017/04/27
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Kyiv Post, Moscow, 21 April 2017) The German and Swedish export credit agencies have decided to take part in the Yamal LNG project, Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson said during the annual general meeting of shareholders. The cost of the project is $27 billion. Yamal LNG has signed credit...
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2017/04/27
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 19 April 2017) Following objections from local affected villagers, on April 19th the regional court in Bandung, West Java revoked the environmental permit for the 1000MW Cirebon coal-fired power plant expansion plan known as Cirebon 2 (which Marubeni and JERA...
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2017/04/26
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, London, 6 April 2017) Environmental action groups including Greenpeace, Oxfam and GetUp have signed an open letter to Australia’s export credit agency asking it not to fund a controversial new coal mine. The groups say a loan to the proposed Resgen Boikarabelo mine in South Africa...
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2017/03/31
Country: Australia, China, India, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Standard, New Delhi, 20 March 2017) Leading global financers, export credit funds from China and Korea and international banks which earlier refused to fund the Carmichael coal mine project of the Adani Group are in talks with the Indian conglomerate to fund the project. The...
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2017/03/31
Country: Australia, Norway
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Austral Asian Lawyer, St. Leonards NSW, 15 March 2017) Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised on a US$100 mn term loan and guarantee facility which will be used by Woodside for its offshore operations in Western Australia. The facility has export credit support provided by DNB Bank...
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2017/03/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Large Dams
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 14 March 2017) Multibillion-dollar deals have been signed with East Asian companies to develop dam infrastructure in Iran, including a $1.7 billion agreement with South Korea for developing the Bakhtiari hydroelectric dam and a $341 million Sinosure...
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