Supporting Customers’ Climate Change Initiatives and Restricting New Lending to Businesses with Significant Environmental Impacts
First written in FY2021-Q1. 1 of 3 entries say "Raised", first in FY2021. Latest entry: FY2026.
7 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「The Group will not provide new loans to coal-fired power generation projects except in genuinely unavoidable circumstances such as responding to disasters, and will not provide new loans to projects that may have a significant adverse impact on the environment, including coal-mining projects conducted using the MTR method.」
The Group continues its policy of restricting new lending to businesses with a significant environmental impact while advancing climate change risk reduction and supporting customers' sustainability transformation in parallel. - FY2021RaisedAnnual report
「The Group will not provide new loans to coal-fired power generation projects except in genuinely unavoidable circumstances such as responding to disasters, and will not provide new loans to projects that may have a significant adverse impact on the environment, including coal-mining projects conducted using the MTR method (Note 2).」
In addition to coal-fired power generation, it has expanded the scope of projects subject to lending restrictions to include coal-mining projects using the MTR method and other projects with a significant environmental impact. - FY2021-Q1First statedAnnual report
「The Group has stated that it will not provide new loans to projects that may have a significant adverse impact on the environment or to coal-fired power generation projects, except in genuinely unavoidable circumstances such as responding to disasters.」
For climate change response, it describes for the first time a specific lending policy that supports customers' initiatives while, in principle, prohibiting new lending to projects that may have a significant adverse impact on the environment and to coal-fired power generation projects.