🚨 BREAKING: Japan's top LNG carrier financiers given 30 days to respond to calls for proper environmental and social due diligence on $1.77 billion in LNG carrier financing exposure.  Japanese financial institutions financed nearly 27% of global LNG carrier project finance between 2020 and 2025. Now 33 civil society groups are demanding accountability.  On September 2, SFOC and 32 co-signatories including @FoEJapan_en, Kiko Network, Jubilee Australia Research Centre, and @standearth sent a joint letter to 34 Japanese financial institutions identified as among the world’s largest financiers of LNG carriers.  🚢 @mufgbk_official, SMFG, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust, @Mizuho, and Yamaguchi Financial Group provided $1.77B (26.9%) of all global project-level carrier finance between 2020-2025. MUFG alone accounts for 12.8%, making it the single largest LNG carrier financier in the world.  These vessels operate in some of the world’s most ecologically sensitive waters, including the Coral Triangle, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mozambique Channel, and the Strait of Hormuz, without vessel-level environmental due diligence. SFOC’s research estimates the Japanese-financed fleet enables approximately 2,084 MtCO₂e in annual lifecycle emissions—roughly a third of total US emissions.  📣 The letter calls on these institutions to:  - Require environmental and social due diligence for LNG carrier financing  - Recognize LNG carriers’ cumulative ecological impacts despite being movable assets  - Exclude LNG carriers from green and transition finance taxonomies  - Assess financing against projected LNG carrier oversupply through 2030  Disclose whether financing includes vessels serving Mozambique LNG  The 34 institutions have 30 days to respond.  🔗 Read the full press release here: forourclimate.org/newsroom/1… #LNGCarriers #FossilFuelFinance #ClimateFinance #FossilFuelPhaseOut