Volkswagen AG (VW) has rejected a shareholder proposal sent last week from seven European investors urging the company to explain how its lobbying activities help to address climate risks. 

A roundtable bringing together investors from around the globe with a shared ambition to support the mining sector was hosted this week by the Church of England Pensions Board. 

To celebrate a long-standing relationship with two of our farming tenants, Alan Smith, the First Church Estates Commissioner, visited our Navestock Estate in Essex earlier this week to present an English Oak tree to the respective families. 

The Church Commissioners for England is working with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) on a new initiative to help fight the climate, nature and wellbeing crisis by creating networks of healthy wetlands across the UK.

The Church of England Pensions Board has today published its Annual Review, covering the work of the Board throughout 2021.

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

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

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. 

The Church of England’s Social Impact Investment Programme today announced its first investment, a £1.6 million commitment to the Women in Safe Homes fund.

Alan Smith, Senior Advisor - ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Risk and Inclusion, and former Global Head of Risk Strategy at HSBC, is to be the next First Church Estates Commissioner.