(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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2023/04/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
(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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