Quito –
As an alert for the country to make changes in its ambient oil policy, some analysts are analyzing the pronunciation of three European banks: BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and ING, which are announcing the start of financing the Amazonian oil business.
Lees meer oor Amazon Watch en Stand.Earth, issued in August, European banks have been financed with 10,000 million dollars in crude exports from the Cuencas Sagradas of the Ecuadorian Amazon from the United States of America. In the midst of petrol activity, he experienced problems such as the fall crisis in April and the other in November, in the Shiripuno River.
While agreeing with Nelson Baldeón’s petroleum geopolitical analyst, although there is an alert for the country, at the moment Ecuador does not provide financial entities, there are others apart from the ones where the country can be equal. Sondeverbod, dice, hooi, that think that this type of politicians can extend to the future to other financial entities. This possibility is most taken seriously, in front of the climate change policies that will make us adopt the new president of EE. UU., Joe Biden.
For Baldeón, Ecuador needs to change urgently to export and transform more limp products. This type of change can be seen in friendly countries like Colombia, where politics is advancing towards production with solar panels.
It is consulted on the pronunciation of the European financiers that Ecuador has a petrol policy, which is friendly to the environment, because in that country there are companies and companies. There are many who have won contracts for their prices, but in reality they do not apply a point technology.
Meanwhile, for Miguel Robalino, who is also an expert on the petroleum theme, the decision of European banks will be met with the requirements that exist at the global level, by the end of 2050 the companies of certified petroleum industries will reduce CO2 emissions. An example of this is that Shell and BP have global levels that are in the process of moving to renewable energy.
For Robalino, the decision of the banks is a signal that these entities do not encounter in Ecuador a renewable energy policy such as photovoltaics, electricity and geothermal energy. Explain that in the country there are some private companies that have more affordable technology, but this is not the case with the state of petrol.
Amazon Watch y Stand.Aarde assururon que “es la primere ves que commercial banks of global alcance han detenido la financing de extracts activities in la Amazonía”, destacaron estas organisaciones. According to them, the three banks are responsible for more than 50% of the financing of the Amazon petroleum trade, and if they belong to UBS, Natixis and Rabobank, this percentage will increase to 85%.
It informs that even though financial entities require corporate compromises of sustainability, they also trade Amazonian oil that contributes to the climate change and has a direct impact on the indigenous peoples.
“During this time, the petrol industry has caused strikes in our people, violated our rights, destroyed our forests, occupied our territories and created a climatic chaos that led to the collapse of the Amazon”, denounced the President of the Confederacy Ecuadorian Amazon (Confeniae), Marlon Vargas.
“We are calling on all the banks to finance the extraction of petroleum and the trade of the Amazon crude, and, in their place, to invest in sustainable economic alternatives for our countries and communities”, added.
The Cuencas Sagradas of the Amazon are one of the ecosystems with a planetary biodiversity mayor, in which there are more than one million indigenous peoples of 20 nationalities, including people who live in voluntary Islam in their ancestral lands.