(The Diplomat, Arlington, 5 December) The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to slap sanctions on Gazprombank poses a potential major headache for Uzbekistan’s burgeoning mining industry, which until now has relied on the Russian lender to finance a $4.8 billion mine expansion set to nearly...
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2024/12/31
Country: Russia, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, Debt, European Union, Transparency
2024/12/31
Country: France, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Confidential, Cambridge, 20 December 2024) France’s TotalEnergies is making a final push to win United States funding for its liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique before Donald J Trump is inaugurated US President on 20 January. Total wants to restart the project held up...
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2024/12/31
Country: Canada, France, USA
ECAs: Bpifrance
Issue: Nuclear
(EnerData, Grenoble, 17 December 2024) The Lubiatowo-Kopalino nuclear power plant project has collected, based on the letters of intent received so far, declarations of financial commitment for a total equivalent of over PLN95bn (€22bn). The project developer Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) ...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change
(Washington Examiner, Washington, 10 November 2024) The U.S. Export-Import Bank faces scrutiny over a $2.5 billion giveaway to green energy development in Angola that benefits foreign companies with ties to China and the Angolan president, despite the bank’s claims that it will support...
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2024/11/30
Country: Australia, Canada, Norway, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 21 November 2024) Today at the conclusion of the OECD Export Credit Group negotiations, participating nations failed to reach an agreement on fossil fuel finance, despite scientists’ repeated calls for urgent climate action. While no formal conclusion has been...
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2024/11/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Atradius, Bpifrance, COFACE, Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., Swiss Export Risk Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Philadelphia Tribune, 22 November 2024) The EU, U.S. and other countries are hammering out a plan to throttle tens of billions of dollars of financial support for foreign oil and gas projects, weeks before President-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House. Negotiators are working toward...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Hacker News, Mountain View CA, 17 October 2024) As mounting climate concerns cause extreme weather events, & global efforts intensify to keep warming below 1.5°C, Oxfam calls on the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to cease funding fossil fuel projects to instead champion...
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2024/10/31
Country: Malaysia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, New York, 11 October 2024) The US Export-Import Bank authorized a $690 million loan to help build a petrochemical plant in Malaysia, despite objections from climate activists who say the project flouts Biden-Harris administration promises to halt financing for fossil fuel projects...
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2024/10/31
Country: Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change
(Korea Joongang Daily, Seoul, 16 October 2024) The Korea Trade Insurance Corporation granted $1.35 billion in export financing to Hyundai Motor's $5.5 billion EV manufacturing facility in Georgia, which began partial operation in early October. The financing was decided to help Hyundai "...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Arms Trade, Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
(Lexology, London, 30 October 2024) The US Defence Department's Office of Strategic Capital (OFC) is one of the newest entrants in the US Federal arsenal of finance tools for growth companies, providing loans between $10M and $150M to develop critical technologies vital to national security,...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Report, Paris, 1 October 2024) A new financing network and closer cooperation with Angola, Zambia and Tanzania all aim to challenge China’s grip on the continent’s resources. The United States and its allies consolidated their cooperation along a range of fronts during the UN General...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Merrifield, 4 October 2024) Fossil fuel companies continue to be propped up by the government in the form of public financing like US EXIM. Often, these tax dollars are funding overseas fossil fuel projects wreaking havoc on our environment and local communities in places...
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2024/09/30
Country: USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, New York, 12 September 2024) The US Export-Import Bank is considering funding a liquefied natural gas project led by Eni SpA off the coast of Mozambique, years after investing in an onshore facility to produce the fuel that’s been delayed by security issues and opposed by...
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2024/09/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Transparency
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 9 February 2024) Trade finance subsidies, usually provided by export credit agencies, are the predominant tool of industrial policy. This column discusses the effect of the effective shutdown of the Export–Import Bank of the US (EXIM) from 2015—2019...
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