Leaders from the 20 biggest economies in the world will tackle the most pressing issues facing the global economy at the G20 Summit in Japan this June.
The summit is an opportunity for Japan to show climate leadership by stopping any new finance for coal development and rapidly shifting investment to renewable energy.
Bold climate action requires that the biggest economies represented at the G20, heed the realities of science by instituting development frameworks that benefit people and ecosystems and help limit global temperature rise below 1.5°C.
As the current G20 chair, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe has stated that ambitious climate action will be at the top of the summit’s agenda. However, the Japanese government continues to invest billions in coal, approving a $1.2 billion loan for a dirty coal plant in Vietnam just two months ago. Japan’s banks are also among the largest financiers of coal development in the world, willfully accelerating climate breakdown through their lending and investment decisions.
Communities pay the price for these investments that export pollution and climate impacts on the poorest.
Add your voice to the global campaign to call on Prime Minister Abe to stop Japan funding more coal-fired power stations and instead support a just transition towards a renewable energy future.
More information
Japan must exit coal
Japan Times. 2 June 2019.
Japan Times. 2 June 2019.
Why Japan finds coal hard to quit
Nikkei Asian Review. 21 November 2018.
Nikkei Asian Review. 21 November 2018.
Japan Needs to End Coal
No Coal Japan. 5 June 2019.
No Coal Japan. 5 June 2019.