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Dec 2, 2019 - Unfriend Coal
The 2019 Scorecard on Insurance Underwriting for Coal Projects: Tokio Marine, MS&AD, and SOMPO got the lowest score
Unfriend Coal Campaign published the ranking of 30 leading insurers worldwide for efforts for climate change and divestment from coal. It shows that insurers with the policy to end/limit insurance underwriting for coal projects such as Allianz, AXA, Swiss Re, Munich Re, Chubb, QBE, etc. rank relatively high, on the other hand, Japanese major non-life insurance companies that do not have such policies: Tokio Marine, MS & AD, and SOMPO rank at the bottom.
Oct 29, 2019 - Friends of the Earth Japan
NGOs call on JBIC not to finance the Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power plant in Vietnam ~Stop exporting pollution with public money~
A letter signed by 30 organizations from various countries was submitted to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) – a Japanese public financial institution demanding that they should not finance the Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power plant and all other new coal projects. Communities in the Vung Ang area already suffer from severe pollution from existing power plants and factories.