The Church of England Pensions Board has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2018, and the Report and Accounts for each of the four pension schemes of which the Board is the corporate trustee.

The Church Commissioners for England, the endowment fund of the Church of England, published today their financial results for 2018 and the year’s Annual Report.

NEWS / Edward Mason from the Church Commissioners for England, commenting on the Exxon Mobil AGM

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

NEWS /  The Church of England Pensions Board, together with investors with assets totalling nearly £50bn, has filed a shareholder resolution at Rio Tinto calling on the company to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies.

The Church Commissioners for England today reiterated support for the climate-related shareholder resolution, filed against the board of ExxonMobil, and calls on Exxon not to block the resolution going to a vote in 2020. 

The Church Commissioners for England, who manage assets worth £8.7bn, including large land holdings in the UK, are the first investor to join a new Program to develop a framework that will help businesses tackle nature loss in line with science.

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. 

Institutional investors with more than $10tn of combined assets under management are supporting a shareholder proposal urging ExxonMobil to improve its disclosure of the impact of climate change policies on its business, despite Exxon's board recommending a vote against.

The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) released today the agenda for its Asset Owners State of Transition Climate Summit to be held on 2 July 2018 at the London Stock Exchange.