Asia’s top banks are still financing coal due to massive loopholes: report

Published on January 23, 2024

Despite major Asian banks, namely in Singapore and Japan, announcing coal exclusions in recent years, growing captive coal power and lax restrictions on corporate finance to developers offer new coal financing "havens", a study finds.

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