Climate catastrophe
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- Published on Thursday, 13 June 2019 04:46
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In less than three weeks the world’s most powerful leaders are gathering in Osaka for the G20. It could be a vital moment to head off climate catastrophe.
If we can get the Japanese Government, one of the world’s biggest coal backers to switch to clean energy, we could change the course of climate history.
Will you join the global call for Japan to end new coal ahead of this big meeting?
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In less than three weeks, Japan will for the first time host the G20. It’s a make or break moment for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. And there’s one topic he’s hoping doesn’t come up: coal.
There are forces within Prime Minister Abe’s own Government pushing for Japan to move away from coal. But without international pressure Abe won’t act.
Japanese activists have a plan to deliver tens of thousands of signatures from people across the world to Shinzo Abe right in the middle of the G20 when he’s trying to show his Government’s best face to the world.
But our friends in Japan need your help.
Will you sign the petition to the Japanese Government to stop financing coal?
The world's leading scientists have warned we have less than twelve years left to avoid climate catastrophe.
Floods. Droughts. Bushfires and extreme weather events will all become more frequent unless we keep fossil fuels in the ground.
And it’s not just Japan’s public funding of coal that is fuelling the climate crisis. Japan’s three largest banks are the 1st, 2nd and 4th biggest lenders to coal projects in the world.
12 years is a short window to head off climate catastrophe, but it is possible to do it if major economies like Japan switch from coal to clean renewable energy.
If we can get Japan to stop financing coal it will be a seismic shift.
Japan, Korea and China are the largest public financiers of overseas coal power. Once Japan ends its coal finance, Korea is expected to follow suit.
Add your voice and call on Shinzo Abe to reject coal and embrace clean energy!
Thanks for all that you do,
Nick and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Japan Needs to End Coal No Coal Japan, 5 June 2019
Why Japan finds coal hard to quit Nikkei Asian Review, 21 November 2018
Japan must exit coal Japan Times, 2 June 2019
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