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Together with our friends at the Global Catholic Climate Movement, World Council of Churches, Green Anglicans and GreenFaith, Operation Noah is delighted to launch the next global divestment announcement for faith organisations, which will take place on 16 November 2020.

The 17 year old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called on world leaders to end the ‘madness’ of fossil fuel investments and subsidies. The article, published by the Guardian, was written with other youth climate activists from around the world. It urges leaders meeting in Davos for the 50th anniversary conference of the World Economic Forum later this month to end global investment in fossil fuels.

Ivybridge Methodist Church in Devon has decided to end its investments in fossil fuels, becoming the first local Methodist church in the UK to divest.

Today, we are launching the next joint divestment announcement for local churches and Christian organisations, which will take place on the Epiphany (6 January 2020).

Beulah United Reformed Church in Cardiff has decided to end its investments in fossil fuels – becoming the first local church in Wales to divest.

The Church of Scotland voted narrowly against divestment from fossil fuel companies at its General Assembly in Edinburgh yesterday.