The sheer volume of complaints to various grievance mechanisms brought against Japan’s megabanks, MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho, can no longer be considered a set of isolated incidents. It represents a systemic failure. Over the past decade, civil society organizations,...
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繰り返される「機能不全」 ― 増加するESG関連の異議申立てが浮き彫りにする日本のメガバンクのリスク管理の欠陥
三菱UFJフィナンシャル・グループ（MUFG）、三井住友フィナンシャルグループ（SMBCグループ）、みずほフィナンシャルグループ（みずほ）の3メガバンクに対し、各種の異議申立メカニズム（グリーバンス・メカニズム）を通じて提起された申立ての件数は、もはや個別・偶発的な事案の集積とみなすことはできません。構造的な機能不全を示すものと考えられます。...
Macquarie’s huge LNG export gamble puts more than investors at risk
By Morgan Pickett, Senior Policy Analyst, Market Forces, a clean energy finance advocacy organisation. Macquarie Group began life in Sydney in 1969 with just three employees. Today, Macquarie is one of Australia’s most powerful financial institutions, operating across...
Macquarie climate blackflip is ringing alarm bells for investors
By Kyle Robertson, Head of Research, Market Forces It wasn’t long ago that the world’s major banks, including Macquarie, were collectively mobilising to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. In April 2021, now Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney launched the...
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Bangladesh at crossroads: renewables or imported fuel chaos
The energy crisis is hitting Bangladesh’s 177 million people hard, but experts have been urging to end dependence on imported coal and gas in favour of reliable renewables. The Strait of Hormuz is all anyone is talking about and safe passage of energy tankers is at...
APA Group and fossil fuel industry must come clean on true costs of gas
By Will van de Pol, Chief Executive, Market Forces Of all the things being destroyed as a result of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, long-term demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is not the first to spring to mind. But when high fuel price projections...
計29の金融機関がトタルエナジーズによるパプアLNG事業から撤退
CELCORMarket ForcesJubilee Australia Research CenterAsian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and DevelopmentJACSESReclaim Finance 2026年2月10日...
Almost 30 banks turn their back on TotalEnergies’ Papua LNG project
Tuesday 10 February 2026 Twelve more financial institutions have said they will not finance TotalEnergies’ proposed Papua LNG project [1], following a formal complaint made to the banking industry risk standards body, the Equator Principles, concerning the risks to...
NGOs submit first formal Equator Principles complaint against MUFG and potential financiers of the Papua LNG project
Port Moresby/Melbourne/Tokyo/Paris/London. Wednesday 10 December - Today, six organisations have submitted the first formal complaint to the Equator Principles detailing urgent concerns about the potential climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts of the proposed...