{"id":848,"date":"2025-09-14T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/?p=848"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:48:31","slug":"ngos-urge-world-bank-and-adb-no-nuclear-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/2025\/09\/ngos-urge-world-bank-and-adb-no-nuclear-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs Urge World Bank and ADB: \u201cNo Nuclear Financing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tokyo, September 1, 2025 \u2014 Sixty-eight NGOs from 25 countries and regions, including Japan, have launched a global petition urging the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to reverse recent moves toward financing nuclear power projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, both institutions excluded nuclear power from their lending due to unresolved risks: nuclear proliferation, safety hazards, radioactive waste, and high costs. However, on June 10 the World Bank\u2019s Board of Directors lifted its ban, and the ADB is expected to follow in its upcoming energy policy review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reasons nuclear power was excluded in the past remain as urgent as ever,\u201d the petitioning groups warned. \u201cSupporting nuclear projects would pose new dangers for developing countries while diverting resources from safer, more sustainable alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A joint press conference will be held&nbsp;<strong>in Japanese<\/strong>&nbsp;online&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong>Monday, September 8, 2025, 4:00\u20135:00 PM JST<\/strong>.&nbsp;<br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd17\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/16.0\/1f517\/32.png\">&nbsp;Register here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/7GyixhDxRQao7sWfWX9N7Q?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/7GyixhDxRQao7sWfWX9N7Q<\/a><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\udccc\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/16.0\/1f4cc\/32.png\">&nbsp;Petition links:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/kWnJpNgm6K?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/G9MCKn6Gpv?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><br>FoE Japan (Friends of the Earth Japan)<br>E-mail:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@foejapan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@foejapan.org<\/a>&nbsp;| Tel: +81-3-6909-5983<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, September 1, 2025 \u2014 Sixty-eight NGOs from 25 countries and regions, including Japan, have launched a global petition urging the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to reverse recent moves toward financing nuclear power projects. For decades, both institutions excluded nuclear power from their lending due to unresolved risks: nuclear proliferation, safety hazards, radioactive waste, and high costs. However, on June 10 the World Bank\u2019s Board of Directors lifted its ban, and the ADB is expected to follow in its upcoming energy policy review. \u201cThe reasons nuclear power was excluded in the past remain as urgent as ever,\u201d the petitioning groups warned. \u201cSupporting nuclear projects would pose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-impact","category-take-action"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9b8FX-dG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenaction-japan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}