(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2012) The OECD's Export Credit Division last released overall ECA activity statistics up to 2005 in January 2007. OECD staff have argued that difficulties in...
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2014/11/27
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(BankTrack, Nijmegen, 29 October 2014) Ninety-two leading banks last year provided at least EUR 66 billion in financing to the coal industry, according to new coal financing data released today in BankTrack's ‘Banking on coal 2014' report. [1] The global campaigning network believes this...
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2007/07/09
(OECD, Paris, 30 July 2007) Major civil aircraft exporting countries, including OECD countries and Brazil, have signed an agreement limiting government support for export deals in an effort to end... more
2005/12/11
(The Corner House, Dorset, 19 December 2005) OECD Export Credit Group Member ECAs seem poised to subsidize new dam construction now with newly authorized subsidies. Nicholas Hildyard addresses... more
2023/09/29
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A., Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs UK, 7 September 2023) The US, Germany and Italy have been accused of backsliding on a Glasgow promise to end public subsidies to fossil fuel projects overseas. They are among rich countries providing billions of dollars of public subsidies to fossil fuel...
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2005/07/01
June 22, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Today the ECA Watch campaign participant FERN organized a meeting with the EU's Council Working Group on Export Credits in Brussels. Civil society representatives highlighted four key issues. Their presentations are outlined below.
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2020/05/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, OECD, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 May 2020) This month's news is dominated by vast amounts of export credit funding approved to shore up companies facing an international collapse of consumption, production and trade resulting from the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. How much government support is going to...
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2014/06/30
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 June 2014) As published last month, NGOs have called for an end to export credit support for high carbon projects. The European Union is supposed to be phasing out all subsidies for domestic coal plants by 2018 and, as...
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2007/12/09
(OECD, Paris, 14 December 2007) OECD Member countries of the Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG) submit their cash flow results for officially supported export credits to the OECD Secretariat on an annual basis. Five tables provide 2006 and previous years’ results which are... more
2006/10/02
2015/07/29
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Brussels, 27 July 2015) EU bosses are pushing to resolve a clash between industry and environmental policy with a new strategy to phase out funding to export coal technology to developing nations, ahead of a meeting of leading economic powers on the issue. The European Commission, the...
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2021/01/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Reuters, Washington, 18 January 2021) The head of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) on Monday urged the Biden administration to keep pushing to neutralize Chinese export subsidies and help U.S. companies compete, building on gains made under Donald Trump. Chairman Kimberly...
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2020/10/28
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Fox News - Opinion, Washington, 17 October 2020) Kimberly Reed: The latest manifestation of China’s economic aggression is the increasing use of export financing to distort fair and free-market competition. In 2019 alone, communist China provided three times the export financing of the next-...
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2021/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(National Review, Washington, 9 March 2021) Veronique de Rugy of the conservative leaning National Review notes that "asking Ex-Im officials to identify steps through which the United States can promote...
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