(Infrastructue Investor, Sydney, 19 May 2023) Australia’s infrastructure sector has centred on privatisations for decades. But a rapidly changing world calls for more greenfield development. Australia’s transition prospects have recently been boosted by the country’s most significant emissions...
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2023/05/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Upstream, Perth, 29 May 2023) Australian oil giant Santos denied claims of human rights abuses against Indigenous Australians relating to domestic gas and LNG projects planned or under development that have been alleged to some of the company’s investors and financiers. Equity Generation...
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2023/05/30
Country: China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 4 May 2023) The number of financial institutions globally that have committed to coal divestments has doubled in the past three years, but it remains negligible in China, according to a new IEEFA study. While more than 200 “globally significant” companies...
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2023/05/30
Country: Australia, China, India, Japan, USA
(Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 21 May 2023) The leaders of the US, Japan, Australia and India met for the Quad Summit on the sideline of the G7 conclave in Hiroshima and agreed to work on a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) between the export credit agencies of the governments to strengthen...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
200 and counting – Global financial institutions committed to coal divestment has doubled in 3 years
(IEEFA, Lakewood OH, 4 May 2023) In its latest report, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has found that globally significant...
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2023/05/30
Country: Canada
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Environmental Defence, Ottawa, 15 April 2023) In a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, a broad range of Canadian organizations note that it has been over a decade since Canada first committed to ending inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Instead of fulfilling this promise, the Government of...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, G7, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Price of Oil, Hiroshima, 20 May 2023) G7 Leaders in Hiroshima concluded that there is “an important role” for “increased deliveries of LNG” and that “publicly supported gas investments can be appropriate”, jeopardizing the 1.5ºC warming limit and directly contradicting last year’s G7...
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2023/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 24 May 2023) The export credit agencies (ECAs) of OECD countries should take more ambitious action to protect the climate after pouring 77% of their spending into fossil fuel projects between 2018 and 2020, a campaign group has argued. OECD members pumped an annual...
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2023/05/29
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Oil Change International, Washington, 20 May 2923) G7 Leaders in Hiroshima concluded that there is “an important role” for “increased deliveries of LNG” and that “publicly supported gas investments can be appropriate” [i.e. by ECAs], jeopardizing the 1.5ºC warming limit and directly...
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2023/04/30
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Sinosure
Issue: BRIC countries
(China Daily, Beijing, 11 April 2023) Some of China's large State-owned commercial banks and foreign lenders have continuously consolidated the Belt and Road Initiative and expanded into new areas of business to align with China's new development pattern and advance the country's high-level...
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2023/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Institute of Export & International Trade, London, 4 April 2023) UK Export Finance (UKEF) has been granted an extra £10bn of capacity to support UK businesses selling overseas. According to a press statement, this brings the total cap on its financial exposure to £60bn and adds extra...
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2023/04/30
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: BRIC countries
(Trade Finance Global, London, 17 April 2023) Today, Deutsche Bank and SACE announced the close of a €57 million, 10-year lending facility in support of local food production in the Republic of Angola. This facility was guaranteed by SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency (ECA), and...
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2023/04/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Guardian.NG, Abuja, 19 April 2023) Financiers of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano pipeline have pulled out of the project, citing an alleged 570% inflated contract sum, far above global threshold. Infrastructure and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Infrastructure Bank of China and China Export Credit...
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2023/04/30
Country: Norway
Issue: Arms Trade
(Daily News, Budapest, 22 April 2023) Hungary buys high-tech Norwegian missile system A 21st-century high-tech Norwegian missile system, NASAMS, Hungary is getting from Kongsberg, Norway’s premier supplier of defence and aerospace-related systems, will reinforce the country’s air defence from...
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2023/04/30
Country: Iran, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Arms Trade
Global Trade Review, London, 17 April 2023) UKEF is suing BAE Systems, one of its biggest clients, over contracts for the supply of missiles to Iran in the 1970s. The UK’s export credit agency is trying to recover £13.9mn it paid to the defence and aerospace giant in the 1980s, under three...
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