(Oil Change International, Washington, 7 December 2022) A German government State Secretary has revealed a pipeline of fossil fuel projects that shows a lack of seriousness about keeping Germany’s climate promise. The Government stated that it “currently has ten individual applications for...
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2022/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International, urgewald
2022/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Les Amis de la Terre, Oil Change International, Re:Common, urgewald
(Price of Oil, Washington, November 2022) This document signed by 54 international civil society organizations outlines how the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits can align with the Paris Agreement warming target of 1.5°C by placing restrictions on export support for oil...
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2021/10/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
Member: Bank Track, urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 6 October 2021) Three weeks before the start of the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Urgewald and 40 partner NGOs have released the 2021 update of the “Global Coal Exit List” (GCEL). The GCEL provides detailed data on 1,030 companies and around 1,800 subsidiaries operating along...
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2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 15 September 2021) A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros. In the report, the organisations examine...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
Berlin 15.09.2021
A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros.
- German government provides support for oil...
2021/02/28
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, G20, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald & Reclaim Finance, Berlin, 24 February 2021) urgewald, Reclaim Finance, Rainforest Action Network, 350.org Japan and 25 further NGO partners have published groundbreaking research on the financiers and investors behind the global coal industry. It was found that in January 2021, 4...
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2020/09/29
Country: Germany
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Transparency
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Sassenberg, 21 September 2020) In its recently released report on Greening Equity Investments in Financial Institutions the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, announced it has adopted Urgewald’s Global...
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2018/11/27
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
Member: urgewald
(New York Times, Hanoi, 24 November 2018) Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change. Scientists have repeatedly warned of its looming dangers, most recently on Friday, when a...
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2018/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
(Urgewald, Berlin, 4 October 2018) Four days before the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts forward its special report on 1.5°C, NGOs have released a new list of the world’s top 120 coal plant developers. “Building new coal plants is an assault on the Paris climate goals,” said...
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2017/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2017) At the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017 a number of NGO, environmental and social movement organizations released briefings and research reports highlighting fossil fuel projects that are being funded by multilateral and national development...
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2017/10/29
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Both ENDS, Friends of the Earth Japan, Friends of the Earth USA, Jubilee Australia, Re:Common, urgewald
(FOE US, Washington, 16 October 2017) Although at least seven major countries — including Canada, France, and Germany — have made commitments to phase out coal power domestically, their export credit agencies, or ECAs, have poured money into coal plants and other fossil fuel projects in other...
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2017/06/30
Issue: End Coal Financing
Member: Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(Banktrack, Berlin 29 June 2017) The environmental NGO urgewald and its partners have revealed which companies are at the forefront of plans to expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by a staggering...
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Letters & statements
2014/06/10
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11 June 2014
International NGOs Call on Governments to #EndCoalFinance
On Monday, June 16 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Export Credit Group will meet to discuss...
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2013/12/31
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Transparency
Member: urgewald
Three organizations want to enforce access to information regarding documents on export credit guarantees - Human rights assessments not disclosed
BERLIN, 9 December 2013 – Human rights organizations,...
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2013/10/31
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald
September 13, 2013
Participants to the Export Credit Arrangement
Members of the Export Credit Group
To the Participants and the Members:
We are writing to...