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  1. Church Commissioners for England Logo / Crest

    Church Commissioners join Investors for a Sustainable Digital Economy network

    01/02/2022

    The Church Commissioners for England has today joined a network of like-minded investment managers and asset owners, to engage with, and steward companies through, digital governance best practices – an urgent concern in an increasingly digitalized society. 

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  2. Brumadinho

    Investor Action to Target Companies Not Implementing Global Industry Standard on Tailings

    25/01/2022

    Intervention comes on the 3rd anniversary of the Brumadinho Disaster that killed 270 people

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  3. Exterior view of Holy Trinity Long Itchington

    Church of England restricts investment in climate laggards

    20/01/2022

    The Church of England’s National Investing Bodies (NIBs) are delivering on their 2018 commitment to General Synod to engage with and disinvest from high carbon emitting companies that are not making progress to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2023. 

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    Church of England’s Social Investment Programme to support charities to recover from the pandemic

    12/01/2022

    The Church of England’s Social Investment Programme today announced a £1m commitment to the Recovery Loan Fund.

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  5. Flora Winfield

    Rev’d Canon Dr Flora Winfield appointed Third Church Estates Commissioner

    11/01/2022

    Canon Winfield was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1994. She has worked in parish and cathedral ministry, university and military chaplaincy, ecumenical and Anglican Communion relations, and humanitarian diplomacy, representing the Anglican Communion at the United Nations. 

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  6. IPE Awards Aaron Pinnock on behalf of Church Commissioners

    Church Commissioners named ‘Impactful Leader’

    06/12/2021

    The Church Commissioners for England won IPE’s award for Impact Investment at the European pension publication’s annual awards event. 

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  7. Statement following Shell's decision to withdraw from the Cambo oilfield off Scotland

    03/12/2021

    Comment from Adam Matthews, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the Church of England Pensions Board following the decision of Shell to withdraw from the Cambo oilfield off Scotland.

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  8. Flowers are shown next to graves in a church yard a church tower is also shown on the left hand side

    Some of the nation’s largest landowners make unprecedented pact to jointly tackle the climate and nature crises

    29/11/2021

    Some of England’s biggest landowners, who collectively own and manage around 30 percent of England’s land, sign pact to tackle climate change 

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  9. TPI Logo

    Transition Pathway Initiative energy report finds only 1 in 10 companies are ambitious enough to keep global warming to 1.5°C

    26/11/2021

    Energy sector is improving its climate performance, but too slowly, concludes research from $39 trillion-backed Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI)

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  10. Amanda Nelson EIAG Member

    Ethical Investment Advisory Group welcomes Amanda Nelson

    18/11/2021

    The Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Nelson, CEO and Chair of Vodafone Hungary, to the Group. 

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