Climate groups urge Japan Government and PM Ishiba: Don’t push for Fossil Gas and False Solutions in Asia
Climate advocates today, October 10, challenged the Japanese government and its newly-installed Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to stop derailing Asia’s energy future by phasing out all of their fossil fuel investments in Asia. They said Japan must pave the way to a clean energy transition by shifting to investments in
APMDD at Financing the Future: Aligning Finance with the Promise of the Paris Agreement (A Parliamentary Forum)
New York City, NY [21 Sept 2024] – A high-level forum organized by Parliamentarians for a Fossil Free Future in coordination with the Rainforest Action Network and Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development brought together influential parliamentarians, frontline leaders, UN officials, and fossil finance experts in New York City
APMDD joins Climate March in New York
Various organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks from several countries, including the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Climate Action Network – International (CAN-I), and Demand Climate Justice (DJC), joined the Fridays For Future-led march-rally in New York City on Friday, September 20, 2024. The delegations marched in solidarity,
Global Day of Action to End Coal: Thousands across Asia call for a fast and fair coal phase out
Demonstrations held in 9 countries, 72 cities and provinces More than ten thousand people joined demonstrations across Asia to demand the rapid phase out of coal, kicking off a week of climate marches happening around the world explicitly calling for an end to fossil fuels worldwide and the delivery of
Japanese megabanks told to stop deceiving the public on climate action
On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Mizuho, MUFG, SMBC Climate campaigners slammed three of Japan’s megabanks for deceiving the public and their shareholders into believing that they are pursuing decarbonization policies when in fact they are financing some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel projects,

On Friday, September 13, climate activists mobilized across the globe in more than 150 events, spanning over 50 countries in all continents, calling on their governments to urgently implement a fast, fair and funded phase-out of fossil fuels to prevent further climate catastrophe. In Africa, more than 70 events are planned across more than 20 countries, ranging from rallies to theatrical performances, with Kenya and Nigeria each hosting more than 10 actions. Meanwhile, in Asia as well, more than 70 coordinated demonstrations are taking place in 62 cities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, with many targeting coal-fired power plants in protest against the alarming expansion of new coal projects in the region.

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About APMDD

The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.

The Focus of APMDD’s work
APMDD believes in social transformation that is all encompassing and interrelated: it is economic, political, cultural and environmental and has class, ethnicity/race and gender dimensions.

As its contribution to social transformation, it will focus on: People-Centered Development, Economic and Environmental Rights and Justice

Its Role and Tasks

Develop and advance collective campaigns and joint actions of movements and peoples organizations to advance common struggles in the regional and global arenas
Catalyze and enhance national and local campaigns of peoples’ organizations, movements and allied institutions in different countries – as the foundation of regional and global campaigns

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Members

As part of strengthening the alliance as a global movement, APMDD works alongside a range of passionate members in different parts of South Asia such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, and Philippines.

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