(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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2020/09/29
Country: Germany
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Transparency
Member: urgewald
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...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Pulp and Paper
Member: Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Les Amis de la Terre, urgewald
(June 11, 2012) Press release launched on the day that more than 30 European non governmental organisations (NGOs) delivered a letter calling on governments not to fund a new pulp mill proposed by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's most controversial pulp and...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/02/01
Region: Europe, Central Asia & Russia
Country: France, Germany
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Nuclear
Member: FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , Re:Common, urgewald
Letters & statements
2012/08/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Transparency
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
On 6 August 2012, ECA Watch and the European Coalition...
Letters & statements
2011/11/08
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams, Nuclear, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
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
(8 November 2011) This letter from ECA Watch outlines the...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2011/06/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
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
(June 29, 2011) A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European...
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Letters & statements
2011/04/16
Country: Belgium
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
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
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