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OECD, It’s Time for Export Credit Agencies to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
As they gather in the shadow of the UN Climate Conference, ECAs must cease business as usual and finally move in a new and more sustainable direction by ending all support of fossil fuels by 2020 at t…
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U.S. delegation promotes fossil fuels at COP23, spits in the face of victims of climate change
Trump’s actions demonstrate callous disregard — and possibly even genuine malevolence — toward people in poor countries whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened, diminished, and in some…
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Trump’s funding for dirty coal plant in Vietnam would worsen climate crisis, undermine international agreement
Friends of the Earth U.S. has produced two reports on Ex-Im’s potential financing for Vietnam’s planned Long Phu-1 coal plant, which document how the project worsens climate change and violates in…
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Broad, International Coalition Calls Out PepsiCo for Ongoing Deforestation, Labor Rights Abuses in Palm Oil Supply Chain
It is with the utmost urgency that we call on PepsiCo to address the egregious impacts of its palm oil supply chain and business partnerships in Indonesia and other sourcing regions including Malaysia…
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Climate of Risk: Fact Sheet
CalPERS holds about $400 million worth of shares in palm oil plantation companies — investments which bring serious material risks including climate risk, land-rights risk, reputational risk, and st…
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Climate of Risk: Executive Summary
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest public pension fund in the United States, with $320 billion in assets under management.
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House unveils tax disaster
The House tax plan sacrifices crucial agencies like the EPA in order to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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Senators, don’t put Ex-Im Bank’s fossil fuel financing back in business
After providing almost $6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency – the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) – has been unable to finance large fossil fuel p…
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Senate Holds Hearing on Trump’s Ex-Im Bank Nominees
The Export Import Bank needs leaders who will improve transparency and accountability while ending the bank’s financing of harmful projects, including all fossil fuels.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Debunking the Doctored Numbers on Long Phu-1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has proposed a 4,400 MW coal-fired power plant complex in the Long Phu District of Soc Trang province, Vietnam.