THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 11, 2022 at 17:51 JST
The “award ceremony” for the fossil award is held at a venue of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 9. (Shinichi Sekine)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt--Japan has again won a “fossil award” in recognition of its reluctance to tackle global warming, the Climate Action Network (CAN) announced here on Nov. 9.
CAN, an international network of environmental nongovernmental organizations, named the “winner” at a venue of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Egypt.
Japan won largely because it is the world’s biggest public financier of fossil fuel projects, CAN members said.
They cited a study by an American NGO published on Nov. 8 that found Japan’s average annual public investment in fossil-fuel projects between 2019 and 2021 was around $10.6 billion (around 1.6 trillion yen).
They also criticized Japan’s plan to export technology that generates power by mixing ammonia and coal as another “false solution.”
Japan has been given a fossil award at almost all previous COP conferences.
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