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If Environment Minister Hendriks» does announce a stringent, comprehensive limitation on overseas coal financing, in line with the international community, it would be exactly the kind of action that 100,000 environmental, labor, faith, and social justice activists will be marching for this Sunday in New York City at the People's Climate March, and its affiliated events worldwide.

«Connecticut on its way to a coal - free future Main Japan Draws Condemnation For Continued Overseas Coal Financing»

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For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

Supporting new coal development greatly undermines President Obama's much - touted climate legacy, including his commitment under the Climate Action Plan to restrict financing coal plants overseas and the recent formal U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, which aspires to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and thus rules out any question of U.S. investment in coal.