(Columbia University, New York, 25 August 2022) This report, part of wider work on nuclear energy at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, compares the financing terms offered between 2000 and 2021 by the world’s major exporters of nuclear power plants: Russia, France, the...
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2023/01/30
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, G7
(UKEF, London, 22 January 2023) Acknowledging the G7 Leaders’ Statement on Support for Ukraine, as heads of the official export credit agency (ECA) schemes of the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America – we wish to express our...
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2022/12/31
Country: Canada, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Issue: Climate Change
(Global Trade Review, London, 14 December 2022) Canada and New Zealand have mapped out how they will put into action pledges to scrap ECA support for fossil fuel projects, ahead of an end-of-year deadline. At last year’s Cop26 summit in Glasgow, thirty-nine countries vowed to end public finance...
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2022/11/30
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
(UK Government, Toronto, 3 November 2022) The leaders of the official export credit agencies from the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States of America – were hosted by Export Development Canada in Toronto, Canada to discuss a number of pressing...
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2022/11/29
Country: Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea
(The Saxon, Salisbury, ? November 2022) Canada continues to heavily subsidize fossil fuels despite its international commitments, according to a report by Oil Change International. The nonprofit estimates that Canada has, on average, given up to US$8.5 billion annually to projects related to...
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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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2022/09/28
Country: Canada, France, Germany, USA
ECAs: Bpifrance, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 26 September 2022) the French Government has published a new policy that restricts public finance for fossil fuels from the French export credit agency, BPIFrance. This policy is meant to implement France’s commitment to end international public finance...
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2022/08/30
Country: Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade, European Union, Human Rights
(Sky News, London, 3 August 2022) The UKEF credit facilities comprise up to £2.3bn for the financing of military contracts identified by the Ukrainian government, with the remaining £700m earmarked for reconstruction projects. Insiders speculated that companies such as BAE Systems and Babcock...
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2022/07/30
Country: Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: G7
(Politico, Washington, 27 June 2022) Biden and other G-7 leaders meeting in Germany on Sunday pledged to provide $600 billion in public and private financing for developing country infrastructure projects over the next five years, in a move aimed at countering China’s growing global economic...
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2022/03/30
Country: Korea, Russia, USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Asia Financial, London & Hong Kong, 4 March 2022) South Korea said on Friday that it had won an exemption from expanded US export restrictions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Friday. The exemption means Korean companies won’t have to secure...
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2022/03/30
Country: Canada, Russia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(CBC, Winnipeg, 9 March 2022) In December 2020 Export Development Canada — a federal Crown credit corporation — signed a guarantee to back half of a $14-million loan to Winnipeg's 97% Russian owned Buhler Industries to support the company's ongoing operations. The manufacturer of farming...
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2021/06/29
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 16 June 2021) Environmental campaign groups are switching their aim to public and private financing for natural gas projects as they get closer to winning the battle over thermal coal. But the only firm commitments on financing have been on thermal coal, where the...
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2021/04/28
Country: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Denmark EKF, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change
(Oil Change International, Washington, 15 April 2011) In response to the launch of a new Export Finance for the Future coalition (E3F), 21 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 14 countries...
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2021/03/31
Country: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2021) French energy major Total has been forced to suspend operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique for the second time this year, after a fresh attack by insurgents which killed dozens of local and foreign citizens,...
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2020/12/30
Country: Italy, Japan, Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Times, Seoul, 14 December 2020) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said Monday it will provide $500 million (545 billion won) in financial support for a major integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The project financing by the state-run lender is aimed at...
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