Manila, Philippines — The Philippines’ Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi announced that the country will declare a moratorium on building new coal-fired power plants in a speech during the Singapore International Energy Week.
The news comes amidst a recent wave of …
No Coal Japan coalition responds to banking giant’s new climate goals
Japan — Today, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest banking institution in Japan, released its Sustainability Report (Japanese version only), stating its goal of erasing US$3.58 billion loan …
Paris, September 8th, 2020, 09:00 CET – Reclaim Finance, in partnership with 27 other NGOs [1], is releasing the first online tool to identify, assess, and compare the policies adopted by financial institutions worldwide to restrict or end their financial …
Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development
|A coalition of people’s movements across Asia demanding greater action to tackle climate change has called on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to immediately stop financing coal-fired power projects in response to the …
Chuck Baclagon
People power has once again shown that it is possible to stop the world’s biggest bankrollers of climate change.
The massive online protests that you joined together with many others from different parts of the world have forced …
Chuck Baclagon
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting starts today – it’s time to take our action up a notch.
We need to remind the GCF of their mandate to accelerate climate action in developing countries for them to …
Jenny Tuazon
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is the world’s largest fund dedicated to helping developing countries respond to the climate crisis. It aims to increase the capacity …
Norly Mercado
For more than two decades August 9 has been celebrated as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People – a day that recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as …
Chuck Baclagon
This week Japan’s Mizuho, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, the three largest lenders to coal developers globally are having their annual shareholder meetings to chart the direction of their future investment policies.
Will you …