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。...
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We’re all paying the price of banks and pension funds fuelling climate disasters
By Kyle Robertson, Head of Research, Market Forces. People across Asia and Australia are experiencing another scorching season of deadly and terrifying wildfires, heatwaves and floods. The world has just endured the three hottest years on record according to the World...
Ditching net zero is a dangerous gamble for Japan’s megabanks
MUFG and SMBC's UN climate exit signals a troubling retreat from sustainability Eri Watanabe is a senior Japan energy finance campaigner at Market Forces, a clean energy finance advocacy group working across Asia and Australia. Japan's two largest banks, MUFG and...
MUFG Shamelessly Backs Papua LNG: Join Us to Stop This Climate and Human Rights Disaster
MUFG, Japan's largest bank and the world’s top LNG financier from 2021 to 2023, has brazenly stepped into the role of financial advisor for the controversial Papua LNG project. This venture, led by Total Energies, ExxonMobil, Santos, and ENEOS (JX Nippon), has already...
International banks no longer involved with Santos’ Barossa gas project
News just broke that BNP Paribas and The Export-Import Bank of Korea, two major international banks, are no longer involved in the financing of Santos’ Barossa gas project. Tell Australian, Japanese, and other international banks to cut ties with Santos. It was...
Global week of action targets MUFG’s fossil fuel financing
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 29 May: Environment groups from several countries worldwide are launching a global week of action against Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) under the theme "Banking Betrayal: MUFG is Funding our Demise." This...
TotalEnergies（トタルエナジーズ ）の主要銀行がパプアLNGへの資金提供拒否
ヨーロッパ第3位の銀行である Crédit Agricole（クレディ・アグリコル）は、先週 TotalEnergies（トタルエナジーズ ）に対して大きな打撃を与え、トタルエナジーズが提案しているパプア液化天然ガスプロジェクト（パプア LNG）への資金提供をしないと宣言しました。...
Australian and Japanese banks receive warning to stay out of Papua LNG
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 Ahead of TotalEnergies’ Investor Day in France, Australian banks ANZ and NAB and Japanese banks MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho received letters from Market Forces, Jubilee Australia and Papua New Guinean civil society organisation CELCOR (Center...