Anglican, Hindu and Buddhist leaders have written to members of the Australian Parliament asking for ambitious post-2020 emissions reduction targets, which are a ‘moral imperative’ to...
Campaigners have called on the Vatican Bank to ditch all its investments in the fossil fuel industry, and throw its considerable weight behind the growing divestment...
Environmentalists and Muslims have welcomed the opening of the Islamic world’s first eco-friendly mosque, a pioneering green building that held its first sermon on Friday. The...
One hundred and fifty-four years ago today, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, a group of British scientists and...
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic church, made a religious case for acting against climate change in front of a large crowd that had gathered...
Religious groups have called on Pope Francis to give his support to the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which calls on investors to ditch their holdings in...
The emergence of ‘super-rich’ Africans has been met with the development of western-style philanthropy, a new report has found. The study, from the African Grantmakers Network...
For a number of years, many in the ‘mainstream’ investor community have rebuffed attempts to get them to take sustainability concerns into account in their investments,...
The General Synod of the Church of England has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to review its investment policy towards fossil fuel companies, with...
The General Synod of the Church of England is to stage a debate on climate change and the environment on Wednesday, discussing, among other things, its...
As we celebrate another day of consuming far more than the Earth can sustainably provide, it’s worth sparing a thought to the origin of that word:...
A campaign group made up of Christians who are concerned about climate change is urging British churches to ditch their investments in fossil fuel companies, saying...
The financial services system must rediscover the value of human beings and begin to care for those on the edges of society, the archbishop of Canterbury...
A group of investors connected with churches across Britain and Ireland has claimed success in its efforts to convince businesses to improve their environmental performance. The...
Quakers in Britain have announced their support for a Christian charity that is calling for churches and the religious community to divest from fossil fuels. Operation...