Category: Fossil Fuel Corporations

  • A Critique of Wespath’s 2025 Sustainable Investment Report

    A Critique of Wespath’s 2025 Sustainable Investment Report

    By William Meyers for Fossil Free UMC Note: After studying Wespath’s recently released 2025 Sustainability Report, Fossil Free UMC coordinating team member William Meyers analyzed it and wrote this critique. The critique compares Wespath’s approach to climate change and climate justice (including human rights) to the approach taken by Fossil Free UMC. Fossil Free UMC

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  • “Celebrating the Death of Fossil Fuels” at COP30

    “Celebrating the Death of Fossil Fuels” at COP30

    On Saturday at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, 50,000 people “celebrated the death of fossil fuels” outside the United Nations climate summit. The “Great People’s March” and makeshift “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” was organized by civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond. Their demands included a fair phaseout of fossil fuels and a just transition toward

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  • Communities and Churches Destroyed by the January 2025 Wildfires

    Communities and Churches Destroyed by the January 2025 Wildfires

    In January 2025, two United Methodist Churches—Community UMC of Pacific Palisades and Altadena UMC—were burned to the ground in a devastating wildfire. Though only a few miles apart, both shared more than geography: each was founded over a century ago and leaves behind a legacy of deep community involvement. Community UMC has long been known

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  • Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Money, Not the Money Managers by Mark Davies The transformation of the world does not mean the destruction of the world or the destruction of a livable cimate for all life on earth. The United Methodist Church should not be investing and profiting from the fossil fuel companies that have created and are

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  • Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC

    Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC

    Reprinted from Mark Davies’ Moral Clarity for a Fossil Free UMC – One World House – Mark Davies Living in Oklahoma most of my life, I have had a front row seat to watch how fossil fuel companies work their influence to protect their interests and expand their profits regardless of the impact on our

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  • Divestment Summit in Cal-Nevada Brings Action for Divestment

    Divestment Summit in Cal-Nevada Brings Action for Divestment

    Watch the Summit Here See the various speakers at the following times on the video, or find the separate presentations at the YouTube link above: 00:00 – Intro 2:51 – Bishop Sandra K. Olewine 11:55 – William Morris 1:25:47 – Jim Antal 2:12:26 – Jake Barnett 2:36:31 – Julia Frisbie 3:04:00 – Daniel Cohn “The

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  • Watch Fossil Fuel Divestment Summit

    Watch Fossil Fuel Divestment Summit

    Watch the Summit Here See the various speakers at the following times on the video, or find the separate presentations at the YouTube link above: 00:00 – Intro 2:51 – Bishop Sandra K. Olewine 11:55 – William Morris 1:25:47 – Jim Antal 2:12:26 – Jake Barnett 2:36:31 – Julia Frisbie 3:04:00 – Daniel Cohn The

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  • Watch the Boycott Chevron Webinar

    Watch the Boycott Chevron Webinar

    Presented by UMKR, MFSA, and Fossil Free UMC on March 12, 2025 Go the the UM Kairos Response Website to watch the recording:https://www.kairosresponse.org/webinar_12march2025_chevronboycott.html Ending Israeli occupation and genocide is a climate justice issue.  All over the world, struggles against colonialism and the destruction of God’s creation by corporations for the sake of profit are intrinsically

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