(Euromaidan Press, Kiev, 26 April 2023) In addition to the previously announced €500 million ($522 million), the Italian Export Credit Agency SACE will allocate an additional €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to support trade and...
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2023/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 23 April 2023) Export credit agencies (ECAs) are set to play a vital part in the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), introduced to help secure supplies of metals and minerals needed for the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.The act is part of...
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2023/04/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 13 April 2023) Friends of the Earth has filed an open records request of the Alaska...
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2023/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Lowy Institute, Sydney, 6 April 2023) Since 2009 EFA has helped to underwrite global heating by providing roughly AU$1.69 billion to fossil fuel firms, while offering a relatively paltry AU$20 million for renewable energy projects. Last year, many of Australia’s key allies signed the so-called...
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2023/04/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft, Climate Change
(DeSmog, London, 6 April 2023) UKEF has been accused of “locking us all into more carbon emissions for decades to come” by giving so much assistance to the sector. UKEF, a UK government agency, has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since...
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2023/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Trade Finance Global, London, 7 April 2023) A modernisation package agreed in principle by participants will specifically allow countries to offer greater support for green projects while also expanding the use of export credits in the context of an evolving world economy and an increasingly...
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2023/04/29
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International
(Energy Monitor, London, 17 April 2023) All 38 members of the OECD have pledged to reach net zero, with the US and EU in the middle of hugely significant domestic decarbonisation programmes. Yet export finance remains misaligned with the requirements of net zero, directing seven times more...
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2023/04/29
Country: China, Russia
Issue: BRIC countries
(Weekly Blitz, Dhaka, 29 April 2023) Russia’s weak economic presence in Africa has become a significant question of concern for some experts as they wonder why the nation is not aggressive with this like its ally, China. Smaller countries, such as Turkey, are visibly broadening their economic...
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2023/04/29
Issue: Corruption
(Island Online, Sri Lanka, 9 March 2023)The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has proposed that a three-member committee be appointed by the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance to investigate corruption charges levelled against the General Manager of the Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance...
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2023/03/30
Country: Brazil, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(ARGS, London, 9 March 2023) Embraer has closed a US$ 200 million credit facility to finance purchases from direct suppliers in the United States. This financing is being provided by Citibank and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), the country’s official export...
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2023/03/30
(Construction Index, London, 30 March 2023) The project will extend the university and improve access to higher education. The project is being developed by a joint venture led by Quenda Business, a Polish project management, international business advisory and consulting company that operates...
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2023/03/30
Country: Argentina, Canada, Netherlands
(Microcapital Monitor, Boston, 10 March 2023) Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas (ACA), a network of 143 agricultural cooperatives in Argentina, recently borrowed USD 80 million from three institutions, led by the Dutch development bank Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (...
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2023/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt, European Union, Transparency
(Global Echo, Washington, 8 March 2023) In November 2021 the U.S. provided $600 million in an export credit agreement to help Lithuania withstand pressure from China and joined the EU's WTO lawsuit in support of Vilnius. Days after the establishment in 2021 of the “Taipei Representative Office...
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2023/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(Trade Finance Global, London, 8 March 2023) President and Chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Reta Jo Lewis gave a keynote address to the Trade Finance Global’s Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments roundtable, urging multilateral organisations to take strides towards...
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2023/03/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Earth Org, Hong Kong, 28 March 2023) ) The new policy will allow Italy’s export credit agency SACE to support various fossil fuel projects, including exploration, production, storage, and distribution. Climate experts have strongly criticised the move, saying it would breach international...
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