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April 2022 newsletter

Posted in: Blog, Newsletters

In this month’s newsletter, we celebrate that our Bright Now campaign has been shortlisted for a national campaigning award, invite churches and faith groups to join the next Global Divestment Announcement on 5 July 2022, review how The Church of England went from zero to 10 dioceses divesting, introduce the theme for our Supporters’ Event in June and more!

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Jim Green and Chris Hull use cycling pilgrimage to call on Church of England dioceses to divest from fossil fuels

Posted in: Blog
Date posted: 28 April 2022

By Jim Green

I don’t know about you, but there is so much to shout about that it can do one’s head in. I wanted something to shout for – hope rather than fear.

So when my wife Sue and I attended an Operation Noah divestment webinar last autumn and heard, for instance, about the divestment movement going from almost nothing to $39 trillion in ten years, we were encouraged.

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Divest the Church of England: register for our 18 May online training session

Posted in: Blog, Campaigning, Events, News
Date posted: 28 April 2022

The Church of England is still heavily invested in fossil fuels despite the fact that oil, gas and coal are literally fuelling the climate crisis, but with your help, we can change that. Register for our one-hour ‘Divest the Church of England’ training session, which we’ll hold on Wednesday 18 May from 5.30pm to 6.30pm on Zoom. 

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Operation Noah’s Bright Now Campaign Shortlisted for ‘David & Goliath’ Award

Posted in: Articles, Blog, News
Date posted: 28 April 2022

Operation Noah has learned that our Bright Now campaign has been shortlisted for the ‘David & Goliath Award’ as part of the National Campaigner Awards 2022, presented by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation.

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Time is running out: what the IPCC report means for fossil fuels and climate solutions

Posted in: Articles, Blog, Featured
Date posted: 27 April 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published its 6th Assessment Working Group III report (‘Mitigation of Climate Change’). In this blog, Bright Now Campaign Officer Sharon Hall explores key findings of the report and what it means for our work on fossil fuels, investment in climate solutions and nature-based solutions.

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A growing movement calls for an end to all new fossil fuel exploration

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By Holly-Anna Petersen, Operation Noah Trustee

Revd Vanessa Elston (left) and Ruth Jarman (right) joined the Beyond Fossil Fuels Together vigil outside Parliament earlier this month.

In life, there is a time for a softly softly approach and a time for putting your foot down. As we edge ever closer to climate collapse, it’s clear that if we want a habitable planet, this is a time for the latter.

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