South Africa Energy Week: It’s time for the DBSA to #MakeChangeHappen
On the 11th of December 2018, a group of activists gathered outside the Westin Hotel in Cape Town to call on the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) to continue their work supporting renewable energy and commit to not fund …
Charting the path to a fossil-free East Asia
By Liangyi Chang
Last month climate leaders from 10 Asian countries converge for 3 days of trainings, skillshares and bearing witness to the impacts of fossil-fueled development to communities, as part of the East Asia Climate Leadership Camp 2018.
The …
Marubeni pulls out of coal!
Joint statement by: Friends of the Earth-Japan, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society and Kiko Network
Today, Marubeni Corporation (hereinafter, “Marubeni”), as part of its promotion of sustainable management, announced the following policies regarding its coal-fired …
Asian Movements to IFC: Take Bolder Moves Away from Coal and Fossil Fuel Involvement!
Peoples organizations, NGOs and other civil society groups from all over the world are gathered in Bali, Indonesia to raise their issues and calls on the occasion of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting this week. One of the …
Two Korean Pension Funds Worth US$22 Billion Exit Coal Finance
By Korea Sustainability Investing Forum
two South Korean pension funds with US$22bn AuM announce an end to coal finance for the first time in Korean history, as delegations and scientists from around the world gather for the IPCC Summit in …
Victory: Standard Chartered to Stop Financing New Coal Power Plants!
Standard Chartered bank updated its policy on lending to power generation, ruling out new coal power plants anywhere in the world. It confirmed the bank would no longer directly finance “any new coal-fired power plant projects,
Victory: Standard Chartered to Stop Financing New Coal Power Plants!
Standard Chartered bank updated its policy on lending to power generation, ruling out new coal power plants anywhere in the world. It confirmed the bank would no longer directly finance “any new coal-fired power plant projects,
‘Cool Bank Award’: Keeping it ‘Cool’ in a hot Japan
350 Japan team launched the ‘Cool Bank Award’ campaign, with the goal to acknowledge and support banks that do not have relationships with the fossil fuel or nuclear industry, thus doing their part to keep the earth ‘cool’.……
Divest Fest Joburg: Here’s What Happened
On the 23rd of June, Fossil Free South Africa and 350Africa held a three-hour workshop on divestment from fossil fuels……
Mitsubishi UFJ the most irresponsible bank
350.org Japan presented Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) with the “Most Irresponsible Bank Award 2018” as part of a demonstration at MUFG’s shareholder meeting in Tokyo today. MUFG, together with the two other major financial groups in the country, have …