IMF staff cut critical coal language from Japan statement: Report

The International Monetary Fund deleted a sentence critical of Japan's continued financing of high-emissions coal projects from a staff mission statement on the Japanese economy, a copy of an earlier draft viewed by Reuters shows.
 

The IMF issued the report on Jan. 28 at the conclusion of a routine country surveillance mission to Tokyo to review Japan's economic policies.

The published concluding statement https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/01/27/mcs012722-japan-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2022-article-iv-mission from IMF staff focused on Japan's need to scale back pandemic-relief measures as its economy recovers. It included a section entitled "Shifting to a Low-carbon Economy" that made no mention of coal but said meeting carbon