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  • Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy

    Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy

    A Cobb and Friends Presentatiowith Sharon Delgado YouTube recording of Fossil Fuel Divestment as Climate Change Strategy, October 15, 2024. United Methodist preacher, author, and long-time climate justice activist Sharon Delgado proclaims God’s tangible presence in and through creation and the glory of a sacramental universe, but she contends that we face a reckoning as

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  • Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

    In our last Fossil Free UMC post, Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost, we acknowledged the dilemma of trying to strategize about how best to address the climate crisis: “The world cannot keep burning fossil fuels at the current rate if we hope to limit planetary heating, yet the global system within which we

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  • Prayer Warriors! Prayers Needed For a Livable Planet, Today.

    Prayer Warriors! Prayers Needed For a Livable Planet, Today.

    To see the final result of what happened with Fossil Free UMC’s petition at General Conference, see our final press release or A Report on What Happened with Fossil Fuel Divestment at General Conference and What You Can Do Now. Please pray for us It is very likely that today our petition before General Conference—to divest

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  • Printable Sign-On for Your Church

    Printable Sign-On for Your Church

    Print the sign-on to circulate at your church or gathering You asked, we answered! Online sign-ons are well and good, but our Call for Divestment belongs in the church as well. This PDF is printable, with signing spaces for both individuals and groups. Print and share the sign-on in church on Sunday, and with the

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  • Join Bill McKibben for a Conversation on Divestment

    Join Bill McKibben for a Conversation on Divestment

    Hosted by Fossil Free UMC, the UMCJ Movement Cafe, and Climate Cafe Multifaith Join us virtually for: A Conversation on Divestment with Bill McKibben. Thursday, March 7th at 10:00am Pacific Time / 1:00pm Eastern Time. Register. Our conversation will center the divestment efforts of people of faith, and the effort to divest in the United

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  • Frontline Communities, Climate Justice, and Divestment

    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

    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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  • A Fossil Free UMC Response to COP28: The Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm for Climate Rescue

    A Fossil Free UMC Response to COP28: The Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm for Climate Rescue

    Read this also at United Methodist Insight. “My kingdom is not of this world.”  John 18:36 (NIV) What was the outcome of COP28?  What light can our faith shed on these and other efforts to alleviate climate change and support climate justice?  Finally, how does the mission of Fossil Free UMC to divest from fossil

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