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Mizuho claims it is
"proactively addressing climate change."*
But its actions show otherwise.
These are the facts about Mizuho’s role in the climate crisis.



World’s biggest private lender to coal power
Flawed
sustainability policy
© Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace
Mizuho is implicated in financing companies responsible for rainforest and peatland destruction in Indonesia.
(Source: RAN, 2020)
Financing forest fires
Nghi Son 2 in Vietnam - a reportedly Mizuho-backed coal plant - uses outdated technology with poor pollution controls. The coal-fired power plant when operational would generate twice as much CO2 per every unit of power compared to an average plant in Vietnam.
(Source: Straits Times, 2018 and FoE Australia, 2018)
Deadly pollution
© Aulia Erlangga / Greenpeace