(Arab News, Jeddah, 18 November 2021) The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed a $3 billion loan agreement with Japan's export credit agency and four other lenders, Reuters reported citing JBIC. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is providing $2.1 billion and Sumitomo...
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2021/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Guardian, London, 13 November 2021) A new alliance of financial institutions is committed to funding the changes necessary to avert climate catastrophe. Alliance Chair Mark Carney notes that six years ago, in Paris, countries reached an historic agreement to limit the global temperature rise...
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2021/11/30
Country: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, European Union, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 24 November 2021) Seven European countries have pledged to promote reforms and encourage green incentives in the export credit sector, but dashed campaigners’ hopes that they would axe public finance for fossil fuels more quickly than the end of 2022 deadline set...
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2021/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Oil Change Int'l/FOEUSA, Washington, October 2021) This 36 page reprort documents how G20 countries and the multilateral development banks (MDBs) they govern in 2018-2020 provided at least US$63 billion per year in international public finance for oil, gas, and coal projects. This fossil fuel...
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2021/11/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Politico, Glasgow, 4 November 2021) The United States, the U.K. and some 20 other countries and financial institutions pledged on Thursday to stop public financing for most overseas oil and gas projects by next year, though the agreement included wide latitude for participants to set their own...
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2021/10/31
Country: Canada, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 29 October 2021) The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), a public financial institution fully owned by the Government of Japan, announced in a press release today that it has decided to provide up to US $850 million for the LNG Canada Project....
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2021/10/30
Country: Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(PUNCH Nigeria, Lagos, 24 October 2021) The £1.5bn financing set aside for Nigeria by the UK Export Finance, the United Kingdom government’s export credit agency, has remained largely untouched, the UK Government Department for International Trade, Nigeria has said at the 2021 Energy...
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2021/10/30
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Gas World, Vancouver, 19 October 2021) The Taliban’s ascent is driving renewed discussion about the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on August 18 that TAPI is a “long-term priority project” that the Taliban fully...
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2021/10/30
Country: Australia, China
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 6 October 2021) The Australian government has created a A$2bn (US$1.5bn) loan facility to spur investment in the country’s critical minerals sector, as it attempts to position Australia at the source of supply chains for technologies such as battery storage and...
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2021/10/30
Country: China, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Enginer, New York, 22 October 2021)Italy's biggest banking group Intesa Sanpaolo could help fund Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project even as some European governments show lukewarm support for the giant Russian gas project. Antonio Fallico, chairman of group unit Banca Intesa Russia, told...
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2021/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 22 October 2021) Today the OECD Export Credit Group announced new restrictions on its...
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2021/10/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 2021) The federal government has no plans to immediately stop Crown corporations from financing fossil fuel companies, but it’s not ruling out pushing them to reduce those supports more quickly, says Canada’s environment minister. The issue of public financing...
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2021/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ECA Watch, 27 October 2021) We can’t solve the climate crisis if export credit agencies (ECAs) continue to bankroll fossil fuels. Tell the governments behind these agencies to immediately end all export credit and other public financial support for oil, gas and coal.
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2021/10/12
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
Governments worsen climate crisis with USD billions in export finance
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2021/09/29
Country: Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Netherlands
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Technology, London, 16 September 2021) Dutch floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) operator SBM Offshore has completed the largest project financing in its history, of the vessel FPSO Sepetiba, for a total of $1.6bn. SBM Offshore was established in 1862 and its main...
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