As fishing community faces massive relocation, women in Pattani Province are rising to oppose a planned coal-fired power plant with potentially serious environmental and health impacts for their families and the Pattani Bay community.…
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 …
In Kobe, Japan, an activist group is facing off with a controversial company’s plans to build coal plants, and offering hope for the region’s future.…
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,
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’.…