Japan, stop fueling the climate crisis.

WE CAN’T AFFORD MORE GAS, COAL, AND OIL. TELL JAPAN TO INVEST IN SOLUTIONS, NOT MORE FOSSIL FUELS

Why Japan?

Big money

Japan is one of world’s top financiers of fossil fuels.

Dangerous gas

Japan is driving the expansion of gas infrastructure in Asia.

Human rights violations

Fossil fuel projects are harming communities and ecosystems.

Dirty coal

Japan continues to support dirty coal plants.

Climate crisis

New gas, coal and oil projects will lock in decades of emissions we cannot afford.

How Japan supports fossil fuels

GOVERNMENT:

Japan spends over $10 billion a year on public finance for gas, coal and oil.

PRIVATE BANKS:

SMBC, MUFG and Mizuho rank amongst the world’s largest financiers of fossil fuels.

INSURERS:

Tokio Marine, SOMPO and MS&AD are lagging behind on oil and gas phase-out policies.

OTHER CORPORATIONS:

Mitsubishi Corp., JERA and others are developing projects that will lock in decades of new emissions.

Communities around the world are fighting back

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Japan has locked Bangladesh into decades of pollution and plunged the economy into relying on expensive coal and LNG imports, resulting in sweeping blackouts for many of the country’s 170 million people.

Munira Chowdhury, Market Forces, Australia

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If Japan just went away and stopped investing in (projects like Barossa), we might have hope.

Antonia Burke, Sea of Nations, Australia

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JBIC and Mitsubishi’s financing of LNG Canada has violated our sovereignty, human rights and fueled colonial violence against Indigenous land defenders while destroying sensitive ecosystems

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Canada

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The message I have for the people of Japan is this: We are in a global crisis that affects all of us. There is a better way forward, one that does not inflict suffering or create sacrifice zones, and we must collectively take this path.

James Hiatt, For A Better Bayou, USA