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Date Time Groups in Australia and Japan highlight damage caused by their nations’ coal trade Civil society groups in Australia and Japan have teamed up to release a new report that examines the damage caused by coal mining in Australia and coal consumption in Japan, shining a light on the costs of Japan’s reliance on Australian coal. The report by the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australia Institute and major Japanese climate organisation Kiko Network highlights the impacts on th...

Environment and research groups says emissions from Australian coal sold to Japan almost equals Australia's entire domestic emissions.

Japan: NGOs call on SMBC Group’s new coal policy to further meet Paris Agreement Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (hereinafter SMBC Group) published a statement entitled “Reinforcing Efforts against Climate Change." announcing revisions to its coal-fired power sector policy as well as updated targets for green and sustainability finance. Environmental NGOs, 350.org Japan, Kiko Network, the Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, and the Rainforest Action Network, welcom...

Article content TOKYO — EOS at Federated Hermes has yet to decide if it will back a shareholders’ resolution sponsored by activists seeking to push Mitsubishi UFJ Group (MUFG) to align itself with global climate change goals, the asset manager said. EOS Hermes, which is in talks with the bank, spoke exclusively to Reuters after MUFG said this week that it aimed to achieve carbon neutrality in its lending by 2050. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ...

Apr 23, 2021 Japan’s new target of a 46% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels — a 77% improvement on the previous goal — may be a giant step forward, but it’s still not enough for Tokyo to achieve its goal of net zero by 2050, experts say. Addressing 40 world leaders at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Thursday that Japan will take a leadership role on climate change by striving towa...

As carbon emissions surge, can China and Japan quit the coal? Lucy Craft © Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Coal Fired Power Plant in Jiayuguan Tokyo — This week the White House hosts a two-day Earth Day summit. Forty world leaders have been invited to the virtual event, during which Washington is expected to announce plans for further significant cuts in its carbon emissions.  But as an international organization warns that some nations reliance on coal to power their economie...

NGOs call on President Biden and Prime Minister Suga to take strong leadership on ending public support for coal, oil, and gas NGOs call on President Biden and Prime Minister Suga to take strong leadership on ending public support for coal, oil, and gas April 16, 2021 The two world leaders meet for the first time today at the U.S.-Japan Summit  350.org, Friends of the Earth United States, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environ...

March in Japan is a time of winding down, celebrating and preparing for new beginnings. The school year comes to a close, graduation ceremonies fill up the month and workers prepare for the annual shuffle dance of moving to a new outpost. In the backdrop, the annual ritual and spectacle of cherry blossom season bursts into view. March is a busy but feel-good month. At precisely 2.46pm on Friday, March 11, 2011, an earthquake so powerful that it shifted the world on its axis, struck Japan’s n...

March in Japan is a time of winding down, celebrating and preparing for new beginnings. The school year comes to a close, graduation ceremonies fill up the month and workers prepare for the annual shuffle dance of moving to a new outpost.

March in Japan is a time of winding down, celebrating and preparing for new beginnings. The school year comes to a close, graduation ceremonies fill up the month and workers prepare for the annual shuffle dance of moving to a new outpost.