The European Commission is working on a proposal for a directive on corporate social governance, which will include a regulation of the human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) obligations of corporations. We urge the proposed new regulation to become legally binding on the due...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
Berlin 15.09.2021
A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros.
- German government provides support for oil...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Renewables, Transparency
Click on the link below for a copy of the 6 page briefing
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/06/28
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
PRESS RELEASE
ECA-watch applauds the European Ombudsman’s ruling on maladministration of the European Commission in checking compliance of European Export Credit Agencies with EU law...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/03/01
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, Debt, European Union, OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
The full publication of this new 136 page report is available here.
Between 2015 and 2017, Finance & Trade Watch and Bankwatch, together with their national partners, researched...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2016/05/02
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the OECD sector...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2014/10/24
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius, Ducroire/ Nationale Delcrederedienst
Member: Both ENDS
Both ENDS, 23 October 2014
On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal[1]. The consortium...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/19
Issue: Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
ARCHIVE ONLY - NOT MAINTAINED Nigeria's Bonny Island LNG Project Corruption Case Summary
Brown & Root (KBR), the British subsidiary of Halliburton, has been accused of offering a USD $180M bribe to Nigerian officials to secure a contract for the...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/19
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
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Background on Sakhalin:
Sakhalin's waters contain some of the richest fisheries on the Pacific Rim with a salmon fishery unrivalled anywhere in Russia. It is also home to 25...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/19
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Large Dams, Pulp and Paper, Transparency
Member:
Unearthing the shadowy world of Export Credit Agencies. This report examines some of the problems with...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/18
(August 19, 2005) The Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is the most controversial pipeline in the world. This doubious honour is due to its damaging geo-political, environmental and social impacts, its role in augmenting the power of corporate interests over national...
more Dodgy Deal: Baku-T’bilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (BTC pipeline)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: FERN
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: Debt, Transparency
Member: FERN
(June 10, 2008) This briefing note by Both ENDS and FERN highlights the fairly hidden role of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in the debt problems of many developing countries. It explains how export credit debt comes about, and clarifies how the cancellation of export credit debt is...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
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Member: FERN
(March 31, 2009) A new FERN...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/04/16
Issue: European Union
Member: FERN
(August 23, 2009) Liberalising investments with the aim of opening markets appears to be incompatible with sustainable development of resource-based activities. FERN has therefore published a briefing note, “From Rome to Lisbon,” a guide to the EU’s investment strategy. The guide explores...
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