Canada’s export credit agency is reviewing its environmental and social risk management policies. Given the agency’s repeated support for companies facing credible allegations of human rights abuse, environmental damage or other serious harms, such a review is long overdue.
Letters & SubmissionsEven as it claims to be working to “tackle climate change,” Canada’s export credit agency continues to provide roughly 10 billion dollars in support to fossil fuel companies each year.
Letters & SubmissionsIn May, 120,000 people in northwestern Colombia were endangered by the potential collapse of a hydroelectric dam being developed by Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), a client of Canada’s export credit agency. EPM is currently under investigation for possible corruption and environmental damage linked to the project.
Opinion PiecesIn May Indian police shot and killed 13 people who were protesting pollution from a copper smelter owned by Vedanta Ltd, a client of Export Development Canada (EDC). In this letter, we seek answers from EDC’s President and Chief Executive Officer regarding the actions taken by the public agency to respond to the shootings and the harms caused by its client’s operations.
Letters & SubmissionsThe Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability says the government must immediately implement the recommendations of a UN report that calls for a coherent policy to protect against business-related human rights abuse.
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