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Welcome to Mekong Watch
Mekong Watch is a Japanese NGO based in Tokyo. We combine research and
advocacy to address and prevent the negative environmental and social impacts
of development in the Mekong Region. We are especially concerned about
the lack of consultation with affected communities in development planning
and implementation and the role Japanese financing. By contacting communities
directly, we try to bridge the information and communication gaps between
them and decision-makers in Japan.
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Japan must responsibly disengage from the Yetagun gas project in Myanmar!
What's New!
- yJoint Statementz Unfeasible; the promotion of the Alaska LNG development agreed at the Japan-US Summit, three major Japanese non-life insurers have already excluded Arctic gas drilling from their insurance underwriting(February 20, 2025)
- yOpinionz End Japan's loans to Myanmar's tatmadaw(Posted on the Bangkok Post, November 26, 2024)
- yPress Releasez Institutional investors conduct climate change engagement with SOMPO after being encouraged by environmental NGOs(October 28, 2024)
- yLetter of Requestz Dear Bondholders of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC),
Request to engage with JBIC to stop financing new fossil fuel projects(September 30, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz Local company official and others arrested for corruption in ODA coal-fired
power project in Bangladesh -JICA should immediately investigate the situation and suspend the loan-(September 5, 2024)
- yLetter of Requestz Request to engage with SOMPO to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects(August 28, 2024)
- yPress Releasez Myanmar pearl company TASAKI and investors risk complicity in Myanmar military junta's international crimes - TASAKI must responsibly
end all business with the sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearl Enterprise(July 10, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz Violation of G7 Agreement! We Condemn JBIC's Lending Decision to Provide Support for Vietnam's Block B-O Mon Project (Upstream and Midstream)(July 9, 2024)
- yInqiryz Inquiry regarding TASAKI's business partnership with sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearls
Enterprise(June 11, 2024)
- yInqiryz Inquiry regarding human rights due diligence in relation to TASAKI's business partnership
with sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearls Enterprise(June 11, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz NGOs strongly condemn decision by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to finance Woodside Energy, the Australian gas extraction giant - Over USD 28 billion has been financed for fossil fuel projects since the G7 Elmau Commitment -
(June 4, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz Prime Minister Kishida should cooperate with the US and the Philippines for true decarbonization
(April 9, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz For Vietnam's Block B-O Mon Project, We Demand Retraction of FID by Mitsui
& Co. and JOGMEC's FID and Loan Guarantee Decision (April 8, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz NGOs Strongly Condemn Decision by Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC) and Citibank to finance two gas-fired power projects in Mexico
(March 29, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz NGOs urge Japanese financial institutions to stop developing/supporting the Scarborough gas field in Australia
(March 28, 2024)
- yJoint Statementz JBIC financing for two gas power projects in Mexico would violate the G7 agreement - JBIC, NEXI and private banks should stop consideration immediately -
(January 25, 2024)
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