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Big Oil Tax Giveaway Fact Sheet
In December 2017, Trump signed into law one of the biggest giveaways to corporations and billionaires in U.S. history: the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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UNESCO Biosphere Letter – Mozambique LNG
We are deeply concerned about the harmful impacts on the critically endangered species and unique ecosystems of Quirimbas Biosphere Reserve, as well as the negative effects on local communities and th…
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New Report Reveals How Governments Could Support up to 15 New Coal Plants Despite International Restrictions
From 2013 to 2015, the world’s largest ECAs provided an annual average of USD 38 billion in support of fossil fuels. Eighty-eight percent of ECA support for energy projects went toward fossil fuels…
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Japan Supports Millions of Tons of Carbon Pollution
Friends of the Earth U.S. today revealed that the Japanese government’s two export credit agencies — Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEX…
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ECA Support for Coal in the Face of OECD Financing Restrictions
This report analyzes potential and current support for coal plants by ECAs in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes most of the world’s largest ECAs (thoug…
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The African Development Bank & Energy Access Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and Insights from Recent Data
The African Development Bank (AfDB) launched the New Deal on Energy for Africa in 2016, which lays out AfDB’s strategy to help the continent achieve universal electricity access by 2025—a more amb…
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African Development Bank support for clean energy access falls short of goals, analysis finds, as civil society calls on the bank to do more
As the African Development Bank (AfDB) kicks off its first-ever Africa Investment Forum in South Africa, a new analysis released today finds that the AfDB’s own support for the most cost-effective e…
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U.S. House Passes the BUILD Act
The IDFI must steer clear of financing fossil fuels and instead support renewable energy, especially distributed systems for marginalized populations.
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Senate Committee Approval of Trump’s Ex-Im Head Could Revive the Bank’s Destructive Past
The committee’s approval of Reed brings the Ex-Im Bank one step closer to pumping millions of tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.
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Don’t scrap environmentally responsible overseas investment with reckless Senate BUILD Act
It fails to transfer to the new institution OPIC’s existing environmental, social, climate, transparency, worker rights, human rights, indigenous peoples, gender, anti-corruption and accountability…