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2007/11/05
(ECA Watch, Paris, 28 Nov. 2007) At the end of August 2007, Atradius DSB announced it's intention to provide cover for the supply of 3 gas compressors for a pipeline for the Vancor oil and gas... more
2007/11/04
2007/11/03
(FERN, Brussels, 29 Nov. 2007) With a resounding majority (540 MEPs of 785 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... more
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
2007/11/02
(Corner House, UK, 9 Nov. 2007) Two High Court judges granted permission to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House for a full judicial review hearing against the UK Government's decision in December last year to cut short a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into alleged... more
2007/11/01
On 5 November 2007 ECA Watch attended and then walked out of an OECD Export Credit Working Party (ECG) "consultation" with civil society organizations in protest at the lack of substantive response over the past decade to ECA Watch proposals regarding international best practices. ECA Watch calls... more
2007/10/08
(Earthtimes.org, Washington 11 October 2007) Eight defendants have been charged in connection with an $80 million scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States. As part of the scheme, a loan broker in the Philippines assisted borrowers in executing loan agreements with the lending... more
2007/10/07
(Environmental Finance, London, 18 October 2007) The UK government has come under attack for failing to ensure that its export credit agency performs tough enough environmental and social checks on the projects it subsidises.
2007/10/06
(IHT, Geneva, 25 October 2007) The German Economics Ministry has been scaling back export credit guarantees for trade with Iran, with which Berlin traditionally has had good trade ties. The guarantees totaled US$1.2 billion in 2006, down from US$3.3 billion in 2004, but German companies continued... more
2007/10/05
(ECD, Ottawa, 27 October 2007) Export Development Canada (EDC) has become a signatory to the Equator Principles, an international financial industry benchmark for assessing and managing social and environmental risk in... more
2007/10/04
(Forbes, Beijing, 18 October 2007) - The Chinese government, led by the central bank, is in the process of drafting a plan to restructure the Import-Export Bank of China (Exim Bank), one of the country's three policy banks, into a into a commercial institution, said the official Xinhua news agency... more
2007/10/03
(Amis de la Terre France, Paris, 27 October 2007) The guarantees approved this summer by the ECAs of Switzerland, Germany and Austria for another very controversial Turkish dam, Illisu, have created pressures from Turkey to lower the standards for the Yusufeli dam project, and also the standards of... more
2007/10/02
(WEED, Berlin, 23 October 2007) The European Ilisu campaign has learned during a site visit, that without the knowledge of responsible authorities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the... more
2007/10/01
ECA Watch members have submitted a paper to the OECD outlining a number of concerns which undermine the credibility of the OECD with respect to inconsistencies and weak monitoring and implementation of OECD export credit policies concerning environmental and social standards, bribery, unproductive... more
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2007/09/28
(September 28, 2007) A submission prepared in cooperation with members of the Ilisu Dam Campaign as a response to conditions published by financing export credit agencies. The report demonstrates that the project approval process for the Ilisu Dam was in breach of World Bank...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, FERN
2007/09/10
(Guardian, London, 21 September 2007) British ministers are refusing to cooperate with the US criminal investigation into allegations of corruption against BAE, Britain's biggest arms company. In June 2006,... more