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
2007/11/29
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
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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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...
Letters & statements
2007/06/08
Country: Belgium
(June 8, 2007) A delegation of representatives from the region Hasankeyf/Diyarbakir in Southeast Turkey visited Brussels from 15 to 17 June 2005 to discuss the planned Ilisu dam project in the context of Turkey’s process of accession to the European Union. The delegates say that...
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Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Letters & statements
2007/06/06
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Issue: OECD
On 6 June 2007, FERN and ECA-Watch submitted their suggestions for language and major points of concern to be considered in the revision of the OECD Recommendation on Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits. The suggestions relate to:
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Letters & statements
2007/05/31
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
(May 31, 2007) A joint ECA-Watch/FERN press release: On 23-24 April 2007, the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) appears set to approve revised and weakened environmental and social standards governing projects supported by export credit guarantees or loans of greater...
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Letters & statements
2007/05/31
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: FERN
(May 31, 2007) On 9 November 2006, FERN and ECA-Watch submitted their comments and proposed changes to the draft text of the revised OECD Recommendation on Common Approaches on Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits.
Letters & statements
2007/05/15
(15 May 2007) It has been reported in Die Presse, the Austrian newspaper, that the Iraqi Foreign Minister wrote to the European Commission protesting against the Ilisu Dam and demanding the EC's intervention. FERN has obtained the letter and, on 15.5.2007, wrote to...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Letters & statements
2007/03/19
(March 19, 2007) At the occasion of the Newroz celebrations 2007, the European ECA Reform Campaign reaffirms its opposition to European export credit support for the planned Ilisu Dam in Southeast Turkey. It also expresses solidarity with the many thousands who are currently...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams
Letters & statements
2003/06/01
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD
Member: FERN
(June 1, 2003) Press Release - NGOs propose detailed revisions to the OECD recommendations to establish "common approaches" to environmental and social guidelines for ECAs
Letters & statements
2003/06/01
Issue: Corruption
Member: FERN
Two press releases from June 2006, on the European Parliament examination of corruption in te Lesotho Highlands Water Project, with EU financial backing. Also one background brieifng from 2002 aimed at explaining the case to MEPs.
Letters & statements
2002/11/02
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Transparency
(November 1, 2002) Press release calling for an overhaul of ECA policies.
Letters & statements
2002/01/01
Country: Turkey
(January 1, 2002) A memorandum from concerned non-governmental organisations
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Large Dams