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2007/11/03
(FERN, Brussels, 29 Nov. 2007) With a resounding majority (540 MEPs of 785 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... more
Issue: Climate Change, European Union
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
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2007/09/28
(September 28, 2007) A submission prepared in cooperation with members of the Ilisu Dam Campaign as a response to conditions published by financing export credit agencies. The report demonstrates that the project approval process for the Ilisu Dam was in breach of World Bank...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, FERN
Letters & statements
2007/06/08
Country: Belgium
(June 8, 2007) A delegation of representatives from the region Hasankeyf/Diyarbakir in Southeast Turkey visited Brussels from 15 to 17 June 2005 to discuss the planned Ilisu dam project in the context of Turkey’s process of accession to the European Union. The delegates say that...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2007/06/08
(June 8, 2007) In a workshop held on 11 May 2006, the European Parliament discussed the planned Ilisu dam project in the context of Turkey’s process of accession to the European Union.
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Letters & statements
2007/05/31
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
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
(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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Letters & statements
2007/05/31
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: FERN
(May 31, 2007) On 9 November 2006, FERN and ECA-Watch submitted their comments and proposed changes to the draft text of the revised OECD Recommendation on Common Approaches on Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits.
Letters & statements
2007/05/15
(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...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
External reports and publications
2007/03/18
Member: Corner House, FERN
(March 14, 2007) Investment is not just a blandly apolitical process by which money is mysteriously made to...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2006/09/27
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more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2005/09/14
Country: Turkey
A Trojan Horse for large dams is a report prepared for ECA...
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Common Approaches, Large Dams
Member: Corner House, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2005/08/19
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Corruption
Member: FERN
(August 19, 2005) The UK's export credit agency, the ECGD, recently made the headlines after watering down its anti-bribery rules. Sadly, the lack of tough rules to stamp out corruption and bribery is characteristiic of most European ECAs.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2005/08/18
Issue: Large Dams, OECD
Member: Corner House, FERN
(August 29, 2005) Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) have a long history of granting support for large dams in the South - often at great costs for the poorest sectors of society. The world’s most powerful ECAs have negotiated a special agreement within the OECD which will give dam...
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Letters & statements
2003/06/01
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: FERN
(June 1, 2003) Press Release - NGOs propose detailed revisions to the OECD recommendations to establish "common approaches" to environmental and social guidelines for ECAs
Letters & statements
2003/06/01
Issue: Corruption
Member: FERN
Two press releases from June 2006, on the European Parliament examination of corruption in te Lesotho Highlands Water Project, with EU financial backing. Also one background brieifng from 2002 aimed at explaining the case to MEPs.