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font-family:Geneva'>A reminder about this week’s seminar!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Geneva'>Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Geneva'>Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the
Environment (LFEE)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Geneva;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Geneva;font-weight:bold'>THIS WEEK – </span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Geneva;font-weight:bold'>“NGO Proposals to Reform
International Trade Finance Rules: Boon for Clean Energy Exports or
Boondoggle?”</span></font></b></p>
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<h2><b><font size=1 color=black face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Peter
C. Evans</span></font></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Geneva><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>Center for International Studies, MIT</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Geneva><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Wednesday,
November 17th</span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black;font-weight:bold'>12:00
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black;font-weight:bold'>E40-496</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='text-indent:0in'><font size=1 face=Geneva><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva'>NGOs have been highly critical of
the international regime that governs official trade finance. They have
challenged the regime for failing to sufficiently regulate the negative
environmental externalities associated with large pipelines, dams, nuclear
power plants and other energy projects. Given climate change concerns, NGOs
have also criticized the substantial credit support that exporting governments
provide for fossil fuel based capacity additions in developing countries
compared to the meager support provided to renewable energy. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='text-indent:0in'><font size=1 face=Geneva><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva'>The industrialized member countries
of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) established
the regime governing official trade finance in the 1970s. These rules were
designed to curtail trade distortions caused by the subsidization of credits
issued by export credit agencies (ECAs) and the abuse of Official Development
Assistance (ODA) through “tied-aid” and other potentially predatory
trade practices. These rules now affect approximately $100 billion in projects
financed annually with medium to long-term credits backed by OECD governments,
including a wide range of energy infrastructure projects in the developing
world.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='text-indent:0in'><font size=1 face=Geneva><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Geneva'>In this talk, Peter Evans will
examine the criticisms leveled by NGOs, the prospects for reforms they propose,
and the consequences for cleaner energy exports. Mr. Evans, a Senior Associate
at Cambridge Energy Research Associated (CERA) from 1996-2003, has written
extensively about energy and export credit issues. He is currently completing
his PhD at MIT’s Department of Political Science. His dissertation
examines the international regime governing official trade finance.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Geneva><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Geneva'>Part of a series of brown bag talks on issues of energy,
environment, and sustainability sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and
the Environment. Bring your lunch - cookies and drinks will be provided.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Karen K. Luxton, Administrative Assistant</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</span></font></p>
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