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2007/06/05
(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 28 June 2007) In response to questions in the Dutch parliament regarding official support for exports to Iran, the Dutch Minister of Finance expressed the opinion that export credit insurance is not a foreign policy instrument. Official export credit support is not yet part... more
2007/06/04
(Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización, Terrassa, 27 June 2007) The Environmental Commission of the Spanish Parliament has proposed environmental legislation which includes a clause providing for Spanish companies which undertake activities outside the European Union, and which benefit from... more
2007/06/03
(Pacific Environment, San Francisco, 27 June 27 2007) Fifteen Russian and international environmental organizations sent a letter today to leading public and private banks documenting extensive new environmental violations on the controversial Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia. Banks... more
2007/06/01
(ECA Watch, Paris, 29 June 2007) Environmental NGOs have criticized the OECD Council for its June 12 approval of the weak and unenforceable environmental policy Recommendation of the OECD Export Credit Working Group (ECG). After 17 months of dithering, the Recommendation barely revises the 2003... more
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
2007/05/09
A series of U.S. attacks on European ECA support for Iran highlight the importance given to export subsidies in U.S. foreign policy. The American Enterprise Institute on 21 May pushed for a divestment campaign,... more
2007/05/08
The Bank of Brazil, a state-owned financial institution, ended April with an increase of 45% in export financing contracts, resulting in a business volume of over US$ 1.5 billion. The bank provides two kinds of export credit operations: Advance on Exchange Contracts (ACC) and Advance on Export... more
2007/05/07
Controversy continues over the ECGD supported sale of fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia and related allegations of bribery. British Aerospace Enterprises (BAE) appears likely to be quizzed by... more
2007/05/06
(Reuters, Washington, 22 May 2007) The World Bank and Chinese ECA the Export-Import Bank of China have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve cooperation, a major step in better grasping the Asian giant's interests in Africa. World Bank officials believe it is important, if China wants to... more
2007/05/05
(PRNewswire, Washington, 21 May 2007) The Export-Import Bank of China and the Export-Import Bank of the United States today signed agreements designed to expedite financing for transactions that will help support U.S. export jobs and promote China's sustainable development. With some 70% of China's... more
2007/05/04
(Pacific Environment, Berkeley, 9 May 2007) China's Export Import Bank has released it's environmental... more
2007/05/03
(The Independent, London, 25 May 2007) In the latter half of his column, the Independent`s Jeremy Warner notes that "for what it is and the public recognition it commands (virtually none outside a small elite of economists, politicians and opinion formers), [the OECD] remains an extraordinarily... more