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Letters & statements
2021/10/12
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
Berlin 15.09.2021
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.
- German government provides support for oil...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
Click on the link below for a copy of the 6 page briefing
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/06/28
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
PRESS RELEASE
ECA-watch applauds the European Ombudsman’s ruling on maladministration of the European Commission in checking compliance of European Export Credit Agencies with EU law...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/03/01
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
The full publication of this new 136 page report is available here.
Between 2015 and 2017, Finance & Trade Watch and Bankwatch, together with their national partners, researched...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2016/05/02
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the OECD sector...
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External reports and publications
2015/02/18
ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights: Failure to Protect. The report calls on states to...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour, Lending to Belarus
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground
Letters & statements
2014/11/19
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
18 November 2014
This week in Paris, a secretive body within the OECD will discuss the potential revision of the “gentlemen’s agreement” (1) under which they provide billions of dollars of public financing into the fossil fuel sector through their member export credit agencies.
This...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Member: Both ENDS
Both ENDS, 23 October 2014
On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal[1]. The consortium...
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Letters & statements
2014/10/14
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
ECA Watch in cooperation with the WWF European Policy Office and other European and global NGOs, has written a letter to Finance Ministries and Export Credit Agencies to move those public institutions away from coal financing and subsidies in the...
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Letters & statements
2014/06/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11 June 2014
International NGOs Call on Governments to #EndCoalFinance
On Monday, June 16 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Export Credit Group will meet to discuss...
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Letters & statements
2014/05/21
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Les Amis de la Terre,
In May 2014, more than 50 NGO have endorsed common recommendations provided by the briefing 'Ending Fossil Fuel Support: the way forward' (to be downloaded on the bottom of this page). This briefing was developed by ECA Watch members in close collaboration with other international and regional...
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External reports and publications
2014/02/06
Member: FERN
November 14, 2013
ECA Watch has prepared this ‘shadow report’ — with the support of other civil society groups — in order to assess current ECA practice in relation to issues such as transparency, public...
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