June 30, 2025
Sustainable Development&Aid Program
The aim of SDAP is to avoid/minimize social and environmental impacts and to protect human rights and livelihood of affected peoples in development projects funded by Japanese finance institutions.
Reforming of Social and Environmental Policies of Financial Institutions
- Advocacy for ending Japanese public financing for fossil fuel projects
- Fair Finance Guide Japan (only in Japanese), which is an research and advocacy activities for improving social and environmental policies of private banks. Fair Finance Guide Japan is a national coalition under the Fair Finance Guide International.
- Advocacy for ending Japanese non-life insurance companies’ underwritings for new coal-fired power plants
- Monitoring on ADB’s Safeguard Policy, Accountability Mechanism, Information Disclosure and its updates
Project Monitoring
Empowerment and Information Distribution
Recent activities
June 25, 2025
Press release: 18 global insurers and 10 banks have excluded the Alaska LNG from their support
May 16, 2025
Joint Statement: JICA must stop the loan disbursement now and ascertain the corruption in Bangladesh’s coal project
March 24, 2025
Press Release: 14 investors probing more into environmental and human rights issues on Papua LNG
March 07, 2025
Joint Statement: Japanese climate NGOs express concern over Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s withdrawal from UN Net-Zero Banking Alliance
February 25, 2025
Joint Statement: Unfeasible; the promotion of the Alaska LNG development agreed at the Japan-US Summit
January 21, 2025
Open Letter Requesting to Engage with TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Santos and ENEOS to stop the Papua LNG project
January 15, 2025
Joint statement: SOMPO becomes Japan’s first non-life insurer to adopt a policy respecting indigenous peoples’ rights including FPIC. We urge Tokio Marine and MS&AD to follow SOMPO!
October 28, 2024
Press release: Institutional investors conduct climate change engagement with SOMPO after being encouraged by environmental NGOs
October 01, 2024