(AUManufacturing, No Address Provided, 31 July 2023) Arafura Rare Earths pushed ahead with engineering work and construction of its giant Nolans rare earths project in the Northern Territory in the latest quarter despite a softening market for the critical metals. Arafura has received a letter...
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2023/08/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
2023/08/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Jubilee Australia
(Jubilee Australia, NSW, 18 July 2023) Jubilee Australia, a human rights and environmental organisation, has filed legal proceedings this morning (18th July) in the Federal Court of Australia against federal government agencies that subsidise new fossil fuel projects but don’t disclose the full...
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2023/07/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(ZAWYA, Dubai, 11 July 2023) Cedar Rose, a Cyprus and Dubai based corporate data, credit, risk and compliance firm, has reaffirmed its longstanding partnership covering over 25 years of relationship with Sinosure, a prominent Chinese state-owned enterprise responsible for export credit...
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2023/05/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Upstream, Perth, 29 May 2023) Australian oil giant Santos denied claims of human rights abuses against Indigenous Australians relating to domestic gas and LNG projects planned or under development that have been alleged to some of the company’s investors and financiers. Equity Generation...
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2023/05/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 4 May 2023) The number of financial institutions globally that have committed to coal divestments has doubled in the past three years, but it remains negligible in China, according to a new IEEFA study. While more than 200 “globally significant” companies...
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2023/04/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Guardian.NG, Abuja, 19 April 2023) Financiers of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano pipeline have pulled out of the project, citing an alleged 570% inflated contract sum, far above global threshold. Infrastructure and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Infrastructure Bank of China and China Export Credit...
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2023/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Lowy Institute, Sydney, 6 April 2023) Since 2009 EFA has helped to underwrite global heating by providing roughly AU$1.69 billion to fossil fuel firms, while offering a relatively paltry AU$20 million for renewable energy projects. Last year, many of Australia’s key allies signed the so-called...
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2022/12/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 14 December 2022) In a landmark decision in September, the Federal Court of Australia ruled that Santos Ltd, one of the world’s top 20 largest oil and gas companies, would not be allowed to drill in the Barossa gas fields off the coast of northern...
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2022/12/31
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney. 6 December 2022) Papua New Guinea's state-owned Kumul Petroleum is in talks with Australia's export credit agency to help fund a $1.1-billion acquisition of a 5% stake in the PNG LNG project from Santos Ltd (STO.AX). Santos announced in September that Kumul had made a binding...
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2022/11/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Yahoo News, Sydney, 1 November 2022) Australia is being urged to change course and end taxpayer-funded investment in fossil fuel projects. Ahead of climate talks in Cairo, campaigners are calling for the Albanese government to join a group of countries that last year pledged to end...
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2022/11/29
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Financial Management Magazine, Durham, 4 November 2022) As noted in our October What's New, ten European countries had agreed to spell out this year how they will limit export finance support for overseas fossil fuel projects. But they shelved...
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2022/08/30
Country: Australia, Korea
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Kalkine Media, Sidney, 9 August 2022) One of the leading Australian resource and mineral processing technology companies, TNG Limited (ASX:TNG) has secured a major cornerstone component of the multi-source, global funding package for its Mount Peake Vanadium-Titanium-Iron Project in the...
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2022/06/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan, Russia
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(JACSES, Tokyo, 22 June 2022) It has been reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced to halt Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Matarbari 2 in Bangladesh and the Indramayu coal-fired power project in Indonesia. Both projects have been...
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2022/05/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 25 May 2022) A South Korean court has dismissed an application by traditional owners in Australia for an injunction to prevent South Korean public finance institutions from supporting a proposed gas export project. Representatives of the...
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2022/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(VICE, Brooklyn, 6 April 2022) The South Korean government has shelved plans to pour $700 million into a massive $4.7 billion gas project in Australia’s Timor Sea far north offshore after Tiwi Island Indigenous leaders from the region took them to court, according to government meeting notes...
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