Wednesday 11 August, 2021: Environmental finance group Market Forces has lodged a resolution with BHP on behalf of more than 100 shareholders, calling on the company to manage down its fossil fuel production in line with its stated support for net-zero emissions and the Paris Climate Agreement. Read the ASX … Read More
Japan’s Largest Bank Targeted by Climate Resolution: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group told to align with Paris
TOKYO, Japan, March 29 2021: Japanese NGO Kiko Network, along with three individual investors, have just filed Japan’s second ever climate resolution on a Japanese financial institution, this time on Japanese megabank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial group (hereafter “MUFG”). The resolution calls on the company to adopt and disclose a plan … Read More
Media release: New Japanese bank policies rule out a third of overseas coal plant finance
28 August 2018: New coal policies should rule out providing financial support to close to a third of the coal-fired power stations (by capacity) currently under consideration by Japan’s three major commercial banks, according to a new analysis released today by environmental finance group Market Forces. In implementing their new … Read More