The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board have announced that they will independently disinvest from fossil fuels.

According to new research by the $22 trillion-backed Transition Pathway Initiative, despite headline-grabbing climate announcements by a number of European oil & gas companies this year, no fossil fuel energy major has yet set an emissions target in line with limiting climate change to 2°C

This opinion piece by Alan Smith, the Church of England's First Church Estates Commissioner, was originally published in the Daily Telegraph on 14 January, 2025.    

The Church of England Pensions Board has published its inaugural Climate Action Plan.

The Church of England Pensions Board is today announcing its intention to disinvest from Shell plc and other oil and gas companies which are failing to show sufficient ambition to decarbonise in line with the aims of the Paris Agreement.

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The Church Commissioners will also exclude all other companies primarily engaged in the exploration, production and refining of oil or gas, unless they are in genuine alignment with a 1.5°C pathway.

Steps dioceses can take to reduce their carbon emissions to net zero by 2030.

The next Bishop of Oxford has been announced by 10 Downing Street as Right Reverend Steven Croft, currently Bishop of Sheffield, in the Diocese of Sheffield.

Briefing Papers published following the Families and Households Commission Call for Evidence.