(Barrons/AFP, Paris, 15 November 2024) French energy giant TotalEnergies, recipient of Italian (& French?) ECA funding, was aware of accusations of abuses committed by soldiers charged with protecting its gas site in Mozambique as early as 2021. "Complaints of extortion, disappearances and...
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2024/11/30
Country: China, France, Italy, Korea, United Kingdom
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
2024/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Hacker News, Mountain View CA, 17 October 2024) As mounting climate concerns cause extreme weather events, & global efforts intensify to keep warming below 1.5°C, Oxfam calls on the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to cease funding fossil fuel projects to instead champion...
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2024/10/31
Country: Malaysia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Bloomberg, New York, 11 October 2024) The US Export-Import Bank authorized a $690 million loan to help build a petrochemical plant in Malaysia, despite objections from climate activists who say the project flouts Biden-Harris administration promises to halt financing for fossil fuel projects...
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2024/10/31
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Global Trade Review, London, 14 October 2024) Ahead of crunch talks within the OECD Arrangement, climate groups are pressuring the US, Korea and Japan to agree to a comprehensive proposal that would halt billions of dollars in fossil fuel financing each year. In recent days, over 40...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Innovation News, London, 31 October 2024) UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government’s export credit agency, will offer financial support for overseas projects to source critical minerals. Securing contracts that increase the UK’s ability to source critical minerals will help the UK build...
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2024/10/31
Country: China, France, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Mongabay, Menlo Park, 17 October 2024) A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in Uganda. The letters, written by U.S.-based Climate Rights International (CRI) and 27...
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2024/10/31
Country: USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Africa Report, Paris, 1 October 2024) A new financing network and closer cooperation with Angola, Zambia and Tanzania all aim to challenge China’s grip on the continent’s resources. The United States and its allies consolidated their cooperation along a range of fronts during the UN General...
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2024/10/31
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Merrifield, 4 October 2024) Fossil fuel companies continue to be propped up by the government in the form of public financing like US EXIM. Often, these tax dollars are funding overseas fossil fuel projects wreaking havoc on our environment and local communities in places...
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2024/09/30
Country: USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, New York, 12 September 2024) The US Export-Import Bank is considering funding a liquefied natural gas project led by Eni SpA off the coast of Mozambique, years after investing in an onshore facility to produce the fuel that’s been delayed by security issues and opposed by...
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Renewables Now, 13 September 2024) Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd has hired Affinity Capital Group as a lead manager and strategic financial adviser to help it raise about USD 6.5 billion (EUR 5.90bn) for the development and construction of a large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facility in...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, 17 September 2024) A group of developed nations will make a new push to resolve differences amid fading prospects for a deal to restrict funding of foreign oil and gas projects by their export credit agencies. Restricting export credit agencies is seen as a potentially important...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
(Guardian, London, 24 September 2024) Rich countries could raise five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires, research has shown. Developing nations are asking for...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 24 September 2024) Rich countries can mobilize well over $5 trillion a year for climate action at home and abroad by ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and changing unfair global financial rules. This briefing, endorsed by 36 civil...
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2024/09/30
Country: Germany, Indonesia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Risk Net, London, 26 September 2024) Last year, Deutsche Bank was selected as sole hedge co-ordinator and hedge arranger for a landmark $3.1 billion project-financing deal in Indonesia. Deutsche Bank declined to say who the client was, only that it was a processing and petrochemical company...
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2024/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 27 August 2024) Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge. This report analyzes the progress made by Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) signatories on shifting international public finance away...
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