Brussels, 29 November 2007 – With a resounding majority (540 MEPs 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...
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(November 7, 2007) Memorandum of FERN and ECA-Watch Concerning the OECD Export Credit Group's Lack of Coherence with OECD Goals and Objectives and Other Major Problems
On 6 June 2007, FERN and ECA-Watch submitted their suggestions for language and major points of concern to be considered in the revision of the OECD Recommendation on Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits. The suggestions relate to:
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(May 31, 2007) A joint ECA-Watch/FERN press release: On 23-24 April 2007, the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) appears set to approve revised and weakened environmental and social standards governing projects supported by export credit guarantees or loans of greater...
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(15 May 2007) It has been reported in Die Presse, the Austrian newspaper, that the Iraqi Foreign Minister wrote to the European Commission protesting against the Ilisu Dam and demanding the EC's intervention. FERN has obtained the letter and, on 15.5.2007, wrote to...
moreMany environmentalists consider the massive Three Gorges Dam as the world's most environmentally and socially destructive infrastructure project. The Three Gorges Dam is touted by the Chinese government as the worlds largest hydroelectric project and a symbol of Chinas development and "...
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(March 14, 2007) Investment is not just a blandly apolitical process by which money is mysteriously made to...