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Month: January 2024
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Frontline Communities, Climate Justice, and Divestment
by Sharon Delgado Last week I met with an Annual Conference delegation to General Conference to explain why Fossil Free UMC promotes the General Conference petition to add fossil fuels to our investment screens. At the meeting, one of the delegates reminded me of how important it is as part of our campaign to make
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Climate Finance and Intergenerational Justice: The Rights of the Child
William Myers In 2023, The California-Nevada Annual Conference passed two resolutions linking climate change with the financing of fossil fuels. The first was the petition to add “fossil fuels” to the list of United Methodist ethical investment screens, which Fossil Free UMC is now working to pass at General Conference. The second resolution was inspired
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Ten Reasons Why The United Methodist Church Should Divest from Fossil Fuels
These talking points explain why it is so important to support the petition to General Conference in 2024 calling for “fossil fuels” to be added to United Methodist Church’s list of ethical investment screens in Paragraph 717 of the United Methodist Book of Discipline.
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