New Independent Global Tailings Management Institute Announced to Drive Mining Industry Safety Standard
24/01/2023
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Brumadinho Tailings dam disaster that resulted in the deaths of 270 people, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Church of England Pensions Board announced the formation of an independent Global Tailings Management Institute aimed at driving mining industry safety standards.
4 min readChurch Commissioners publishes full report into historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery and announces new funding commitment of £100m in response to findings
10/01/2023
The report follows an interim announcement in June 2022, which reported for the first time, and with great dismay, that the Church Commissioners’ endowment had historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery*
6 min readArchives revealing Church of England’s links to historic transatlantic slavery to be displayed in new Lambeth Palace Library exhibition
10/01/2023
Enslavement: Voices from the Archives, opens to the public at Lambeth Palace Library, in central London, on 12 January 2023.
3 min readChurch of England’s National Investing Bodies publish Deforestation Policy
14/12/2022
Deforestation sits at the heart of climate, biodiversity and food and water security challenges, all of which many parts of the world are currently struggling to address.
1 min readShareholder Summit to address excessive executive pay hosted by Church of England Pensions Board
13/12/2022
The Church of England Pensions Board this week (Wednesday 14 December) will host investors, regulators, FTSE 100 remuneration committee chairs and other interested stakeholders to review the current state of executive corporate pay.
2 min readChurch Commissioners to vote against companies that fail to meet expectations on human rights
08/12/2022
To mark Human Rights Day, the Church Commissioners for England today announces it will begin to vote against companies that fail to meet its expectations on human rights.
2 min readEmerging Markets Just Transition Investment Initiative: Guiding Principles
11/11/2022
Draft for Consultation
5 min readChurch Commissioners and Landlink Estates submit outline planning for 2,200-home mixed-use development in West Sussex
11/11/2022
The Church Commissioners for England and Landlink Estates have submitted an outline planning application for a mixed-use development in Bersted, providing much needed housing and employment in one of the country’s most undersupplied and least affordable areas.
3 min readPensions Board-chaired global initiative publishes first progress report on steps to reach net-zero goals
09/11/2022
The Paris Aligned Asset Owners initiative, an international group of asset owners committed to supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, has published its first Progress Report showcasing the steps asset owners are taking to reach their net-zero goals.
2 min readChurch Commissioners and other investors tackle commodity-driven deforestation and drive net-zero progress
08/11/2022
The Church Commissioners for England and other global investors are acting to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation from their investment portfolios to drive progress towards a net zero, nature-positive economy.
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