On 22 February, Fridays For Future Nagoya (FFF Nagoya) led the #StopEACOP protest in Nagoya City with speeches outside the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Nagoya Sakae Branch and Nagoya Branch and a march between the two. To describe this...
350 Japan, an international environmental non-governmental organization (NGO), will receive the NPO/NGO Award at the 8th Sustainable Finance Awards. The award is sponsored by the Research Institute for Environmental Finance (RIEF) and recognizes...
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) on climate change ended on November 20 with a historic decision to establish a loss and damage fund. But, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, more needs to be done to slash emissions now; “The...
Fridays For Future Japan will protest against financing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) next week on 22 February. French energy companies and Japanese banks intend to construct the world’s largest crude oil pipeline (led by French...
About a month ago, I was researching in Japanese the COP27 climate conference that was held in Egypt in November last year and had trouble finding information. It occurred to me then that if the Japanese media did not do its job of reporting the...
“Climate change is already here.” That was the opening message that Fridays For Future Kyoto (FFF Kyoto) shared as they opened their dialogue event on 29 January, “Climate Dialogue Between You and Me – Stopping the climate...
This year, we saw considerably more interest in the climate crisis worldwide. Many factors went into it, including the Fridays for Future weekly demonstrations, leaders making public pledges to fight climate change, COP27, dire weather consequences...
It has been 10 years since all countries agreed at the COP17 climate conference to reduce carbon emissions. Since then, while many nations have been actively exploring how to achieve net-zero emissions, major polluters like Russia and China have...
What actions can we take in today’s urgent response to the climate crisis? One person’s action may be small, but when those small actions come together, it would be a big difference. Let us try one at a time, starting with the easy ones...
The COP27 climate conference is already underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Before we delve into what we can expect from it, let’s look back at last year’s COP26 and why it ended up being widely criticized as non-inclusive and superficial. COP26...