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2007/12/01
(The Corner House, Dorset, 22 December 2007) Documents released in the High Court on 21 December 2007 indicate that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into BAE's ECGD supported Saudi arms deals was dropped only after then Prime... more
Letters & statements
2007/11/29
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
Brussels, 29 November 2007 – With a resounding majority (540 MEPs 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...
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Letters & statements
2007/11/18
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
(November 7, 2007) Citing their frustrations at years of silence in response to repeated proposals for effective implementation of environmental and social standards, as well as for coherence with related OECD goals and agreements, non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
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2007/11/13
(Bank Track, Berlin, 30 Nov. 2007) Kurdish groups and NGOs organized demonstrations outside local branches of the German Sparkasse (Savings Bank) and Deka Bank in eleven German towns today. The protests are targeting the two banks financial support of the controversial... more
2007/11/12
(Dow Jones, Paris, 16 Nov. 2007) French banking group BNP Paribas and Russia's Vnesheconombank, parent company of the the Eximbank of Russia, have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in export finance through a EUR300 million framework credit agreement. Under the export finance cooperation... more
2007/11/11
(Financial Times, London, 7 Nov. 2007) International organisations such as the World Bank and the US ExIm Bank that refused to be associated with the dam have been vindicated now as the budget spirals out of control and officials at every level acknowledge the many problems associated with... more
2007/11/10
(Ethical Corporation, London, 14 Nov. 2007) In four years the Equator Principles have made real progress, but according to critics, still suffer from a lack of clarity and definition, particularly regarding climate change.
2007/11/09
(Bloomberg, Jakarta, 14 Nov. 2007) -- PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia's state power company, is seeking a 10 year $1.5 billion loan to build more coal-fired plants, to be guaranteed by the government and covered by China Export & Credit Insurance Corp. (Sinosure). Listrik Negara, which... more
2007/11/08
(ANTARA News, Amsterdam, 8 Nov. 2007) - The Atradius Dutch State Business, the Dutch Export Credit Agency, and Sinosure, the Export Credit Agency of China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support projects where both Dutch and Chinese exporters are involved.
Letters & statements
2007/11/07
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
(November 7, 2007) Memorandum of FERN and ECA-Watch Concerning the OECD Export Credit Group's Lack of Coherence with OECD Goals and Objectives and Other Major Problems
Letters & statements
2007/11/07
Issue: Common Approaches, European Union, OECD
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , urgewald
(November 7, 2007) Letter from FERN and others to the ECG setting out the reasons for the 5 November 2007 NGO walk-out in protest over the OECD Export Credit Group's unwillingness to engage in substantive exchanges of views on issues that have been raised by NGOs over the years...
2007/11/07
(AllAfrica.com, Abuja, 14 Nov. 2007) Nigeria's recent economic progress has led the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) to expand support for Nigerian purchases of U.S. goods and services exports. As noted in the... more
2007/11/06
(Thomson Financial, Milan, 23 Nov. 2007) - SACE SpA, the Italian state-owned export credit insurance company, is to open up its capital to investors either through a stock market listing or through a sale to private equity or industrial partner
2007/11/05
(ECA Watch, Paris, 28 Nov. 2007) At the end of August 2007, Atradius DSB announced it's intention to provide cover for the supply of 3 gas compressors for a pipeline for the Vancor oil and gas... more