Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation withdraws application to the Green Climate Fund

Let’s bring our voices together to remind the GCF Board that coal funders cannot be legitimate partners in implementing climate projects in developing countries.

Urge the GCF Board to deny Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s accreditation, and to ensure that public money will be spent to enact healthy, sustainable, and equitable recovery plans.

While indigenous territories and ancestral domains are considered the bastions of ecologically sustainable ways of life – making them the foundation for a sustainable food base – they continue to be the most marginalized and vulnerable communities in the region.

During crises, it’s vital Filipinos respond with solidarity to widespread social distress. Instead of flattening citizens with a sense of agency, far better to sow conditions which enable acts of citizenship to thrive and multiply.