Reports
Financing nuclear times
This newspaper style publication is available in hard copy frominfo@fern.org. It outlines the history of Export Credit Agencies' support for the nuclear industry and concludes by detailing the destructive projects still in the pipeline.
Articles include; Crippling losses and corruption: nuclear exports Canadian-style; Gift RAPP: Canada’s support for nuclear power and proliferation in India and Pakistan; Nuclear – a publicly subsidised love affair; and German nuclear exports 2009 - 2011:Back to square one!
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 financing nuclear times_web version.pdf | 5.8 MB |
Fool's Gold: How The Planet Pays The Price For Europe's Export Credits
Member States' Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are undermining EU climate objectives by providing billions of euros worth of support for highly carbon-intensive projects and "techno-fixes" masquerading as environmental solutions. This new report highlights the most controversial recent agreements signed by ECAs, provides estimated figures of European Union export credit guarantees and shows how ECA financing favours export and investments that disproportionately benefit energy and carbon-intensive industries.
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| OPEN | 1.14 MB |
European ECA support to carbon intensive industries, a research paper by Profundo
This research conducted for FERN analyses the involvement of all 21 ECAs of EU member countries in the financing of carbon-intensive industries during the period 2004-2009.
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| OPEN | 1.29 MB |
The Changing Landscape of Export Credit Agencies in the Context of the Global Financial Crisis
With the onset of the global financial crisis and the subsequent squeeze in credit and insurance markets, there is a renewed global demand for export credit and investment insurance products offered by ECAs.
The effects of the current crisis will continue to be seen for years to come, and these developments will have a direct bearing on the landscape of ECAs and global trade finance.
This short report describes the changing landscape of ECAs in the context of the global financial crisis and the collapse of trade finance markets, and urges civil society actors to be watchful and monitor developments closely.
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| 2010-03 Changing Landscape of ECAs.pdf | 529.11 KB |
The EU - India FTA
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| OPEN | 430.19 KB |
Exporting Destruction. Export credits, illegal logging and deforestation
FERN's new report, Exporting Destruction, shines a light on the role that export credit agencies (ECAs) play in financing global deforestation and produces a set of policy recommendations to reduce their negative impacts on forests.
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| OPEN | 1.36 MB |
Accessing environmental information in and from the European Community. A practical guide to your right to know.
This new report
explains how the Aarhus Convention on access to environmental information,
public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental
matters is going to increase transparency, public participation and access to
courts and judicial review. With this guide,
which focuses on access to environmental information, FERN gives campaigners the starting
point for exercising some of the rights enshrined in the Convention.| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 581.55 KB |
Why Investment Matters
Investment is not just a blandly apolitical process by which money is mysteriously made to grow, but a process in which companies and governments define and redistribute access to assets, determining who accumulates wealth and at whose expense. This book, by Kavaljit Singh, aims to educate us how investment works, who the main players are and what trends are emerging.| Document | Size |
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| Why Investment Matters | 1.16 MB |
Liberia's forestry law in an international context - Reasons for concern
An FPP analysis, supported by FERN, of the Liberian Forestry Law within the context of international human rights and environmental law. The report recommends retaining the current moratorium on timber exportation until issues such as land tenure and community rights have been clearly defined and safeguards are in place to ensure that income from logging will benefit the people of Liberia.
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| OPEN | 357.13 KB |
Social Criteria in Timber Procurement Policies II
A legal opinion commissioned by WWF UK on whether EU Governments are allowed under EU law to include social criteria in their procurement policies. The study concludes that this is indeed the case
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 OPEN | 58.5 KB |
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