US EditionProtesters in Pikachu costumes demand Japan end fossil fuel financing at UN climate conference
- Protesters in Pokémon costumes demanded Japan end financing for coal and natural gas projects during the UN climate conference.
- According to Hiroki Osada from Friends of the Earth Japan, Japan is delaying the fossil fuel phase-out in Asia by funding energy projects.
- Amiera Sawas of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative stated that Japan's fossil fuel production affects the Global South's energy transition.
- Countries like Denmark, the United Kingdom, Kenya, France, and Germany supported calls for action against fossil fuel financing.
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Protesters disguised as Pikachu, a Pokemon character, marched outside the United Nations climate conference this Friday to send a message to Japan: ending the funding of coal and natural gas projects in Southeast Asia and other regions of the global south.The Stop Japan’s Dirty Energy Plans protest was aligned with the first of two energy-focused thematic days during the annual COP30 climate conference, held this year in Belém, on the edge of th…
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Protesters in Pikachu costumes demand Japan end fossil fuel financing at UN climate conference
Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
According to a data analysis, at the World Climate Conference in Belém, at least 1,600 lobbyists from the oil, gas and coal industries are also present.
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