11. Notes that Chinese investments in Africa, channelled mainly through the Export-Import Bank, raise concerns, e.g. about sustainability of projects, as in the case of large controversial hydropower dam projects; as a first step, shares the view of the African Development Bank Group, according to which it would be desirable to expand the implementation of the Equator principles - a voluntary set of standards for determining, asse ...[+++]ssing and managing social and environmental risk in project financing - to Chinese investments;

Close cooperation between the European Investment Bank and African Development Bank demonstrates the contribution long-term public finance can make to developing renewable energy projects in a challenging economic climate” said Plutarchos Sakellaris, European Investment Bank Vice President responsible for Africa.

12. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, governments and parliaments of the Member States and candidate countries, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the Secretaries-General of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth, the OECD, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Economic and Social Committee, the European Investment Bank ...[+++], the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the President, Government, Parliament and 36 State Governors of Nigeria.

12. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the European Council, the Commission, governments and parliaments of the EU Member States and applicant countries, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the Secretaries-General of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth, the OECD, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Economic and Social Committee, the European Investment Bank ...[+++], the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the President, Government, Parliament and 36 State Governors of Nigeria.

15. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the Secretaries-General of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth, the OECD, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Presidents of the European Investment Bank, the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the President, Governm ...[+++]ent, Parliament and 36 State Governors of Nigeria.

15. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the European Council, the Commission, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, the Secretaries-General of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth, the OECD, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Presidents of the European Investment Bank, the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the President ...[+++], Government, Parliament and 36 State Governors of Nigeria.