22-06-2025
Japan's top investors have a duty to back a clean energy future
Women wearing summer kimonos take a break next to a cooling mist at Tokyo's Sensoji temple on July 22, 2024. © Reuters
Sachiko Suzuki is Asia climate and energy analyst for Market Forces, a Melbourne-based initiative researching the financing of environmentally destructive projects.
Japan faces another scorching summer, but the country's biggest investment companies are stalling the shift to clean energy with the risk of making global warming-fueled disasters worse by pouring billions into new coal, oil and gas development.
