NEWS / The Church of England announced the publication today of its Briefing Paper on Shale Gas and Fracking.

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.

The Church of England Pensions Board and other investors have today launched a standard which can be used across the oil and gas sector to standardise net zero transition plans. 

The Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England’s £10.3bn endowment fund, has decided to exclude all remaining oil and gas majors from its portfolio, and will 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, by the end of 2023.

New Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) research assesses the carbon performance of the world’s ten largest public oil and gas companies, taking into account the full lifecycle emissions of their products.

The Church of England Pensions Board has today welcomed the move by eight leading energy companies to agree collaborative Principles for the energy transition.

NEWS / Church Commissioners for England file shareholder proposal asking ExxonMobil to set goals in-line with Paris Agreement

NEWS / Transition Pathway Initiative new analysis of the electricity, coal and oil and gas sectors

NEWS / Remarks by Adam Matthews, Head of Engagement for the Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board, at today's Royal Dutch Shell AGM.

Board tracks progress in its second annual Stewardship Report and outlines shift in engagement focus from the supply side oil and gas to demand side such as the auto sector