I en ny rapport undersøger ngo’en BackTrack kulpolitikkerne (eller mangel på samme) for 30 store asiatiske banker. Halvdelen af de analyserede banker har stadig ingen begrænsninger på finansiering af kul mens resten har kun svage restriktioner.
Selvom rapporten kun fokuserer på de asiatiske bankers politikker, fremhæver den også, at store amerikanske og europæiske finansieringsinstitutter stadig investerer i kul. Ifølge BankTrack udnytter banker som Barclays, Citi, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank de relative uklare regler på området til fortsat at finansierer kulindustrien.
Will O’Sullivan, climate campaigner, BankTrack, udtaler: “The shrinking corners of the coal industry are still having money pumped into them by some of the biggest banks in Asia. The Japanese megabanks Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC, Indonesia’s “Big Four”, Banks Mandiri, Negara, Rakyat and Central Asia, and Singapore’s “Big Three”, DBS, OCBC and UOB, among others, have totally inadequate coal policies while they actively finance climate destruction – long after they should have exited coal. All these banks should urgently and permanently adopt robust coal exclusion policies, and transition rapidly to renewable energy investment.”
