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Is the era of "low-risk" LNG investment over? 🚢📉    As Japanese shipowners accelerate fleet expansion, they are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape of stranded asset risks and unprecedented legal liabilities. Our latest issue brief breaks down the critical factors now threatening the bottom line for major players like MOL and NYK:    ⚠️Speculative Overcapacity: How rising vessel orders are misaligned with global demand.  𐄷Legal Accountability: New clarifications from international maritime tribunals on climate and human rights obligations.  💸Financial Fallout: The growing risk of climate litigation at home and abroad.    Swipe for the key takeaways.    🔎 Check out the full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/giSnWcAV    #LNG #LNGCarriers #SFOC #Shipbuilding #ClimateLitigation #LegalRisks

In the days since the release of Maritime Beyond Methane (MARBEM)’s Mapping Public Finance in the Shipping Sector, one message is resonating clearly across Asia and beyond: Governments cannot credibly label LNG as “sustainable” and expect to deliver a net-zero shipping transition. As John Y., Head of Shipping at Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC) puts it: “Governments cannot continue to include fossil gas, like LNG, into their taxonomy for sustainable investment… To do otherwise is to dangle rewards for operators, setting them up for a harder and much more costly transition when LNG falls from the taxonomy—and that will be in the near future.” MARBEM’s analysis shows how green and sustainable finance frameworks across Europe and Asia are already being used to channel billions of dollars into LNG-fueled vessels, bunkering infrastructure, and carriers—locking in methane emissions and financial risk just as the sector faces tightening climate regulation. Leadership now means: • Removing LNG from green and sustainable taxonomies • Closing loopholes in public finance and intermediary lending • Redirecting public capital toward truly zero-emission shipping technologies Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gcHi-iAd #LNG #Finance #PublicFinance #Methane #Shipping

📬 Welcome to the January 2026 edition of SFOC’s global newsletter, [Focus on Climate]. 🌡️As of 2026, maintaining the 1.5°C climate target is growing ever more challenging. In Asia, South Korea and Japan are gradually shifting to renewables. However, the transition has been slowed by several reasons. 📌 The U.S. decision on retreating global climate framework raises pressing questions about the scale of its disruption to the multilateral climate architecture, and how remaining Parties can uphold momentum in the face of unconventional retreat. 📚 Two reports released by SFOC: one examines the rapidly evolving legal, regulatory, and financial risks facing the liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping sector; the second one examines the economic risks of an LNG-centered energy system and quantifies the fuel cost savings that could be achieved by reducing LNG demand. 🔖 Thank you for being part of our community! We'd love to have your continued support this year 🫰

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