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Ten years after the founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), its first president, Jin Liqun, is handing over the reins to his successor, Zou Jiayi, today. She is a member of the Central Committee, China's highest governing body, and China's former Vice Minister of Finance. Dr. Nora Sausmikat, AIIB expert and Senior Campaigner on multilateral financial institutions at Urgewald, comments it.

A new analysis of Kpler data published today by the NGO Urgewald shows that Russia's Arctic LNG exports remain heavily dependent on access to EU ports.

As world leaders prepare to meet in Brazil for COP 30, new data from Urgewald’s Global Oil & Gas Exit List (GOGEL)reveals that fossil fuel expansion continues despite governments’ commitment to “transition away” from fossil fuels at COP 28 in Dubai. 

A new report from German environmental and human rights NGO Urgewald exposes how major financial institutions continue to bankroll the expansion of metallurgical coal (“met coal”), despite global coal phase-out commitments.

Three weeks before world leaders gather for COP 30 in Belém, Urgewald and 48 NGO partners released the 2025 “Global Coal Exit List” (GCEL). GCEL is the most comprehensive public database of companies operating across the global thermal coal value chain, covering more than 1,500 parent companies and 1,400 subsidiaries. Currently, 669 financial institutions from 31 countries use GCEL to monitor and restrict financing for the thermal coal industry.

A joint report by the Environmental Rights Foundation (ERF), the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), Ecodefense, and Urgewald revealed that Taiwan became the world’s largest importer of Russian naphtha in the first half of 2025, and has sent USD 1.7 billion in tax revenue to Putin’s war chest. Following extensive coverage by international media and strong coordination and support from legislators Puma Shen and Chen Kuan-Ting, on 9 October, Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin told the press that “FPCC’s relevant contracts are about to expire, and after communication, FPCC has agreed not to purchase Russian naphtha in the future.”