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  • Speak From the Floor on Divestment

    Speak From the Floor on Divestment

    Every year annual conferences meet to do the work of the church and conference, seeking to live faith through worship and agreements about how to live a life together as people of God. The worship part fills the soul while the agreements part, which begins by bringing legislation or a resolution (same thing) to the Read more

  • 2026 Annual Conference Model Resolutions: Divesting as an Annual Conference from Fossil Fuels

    2026 Annual Conference Model Resolutions: Divesting as an Annual Conference from Fossil Fuels

    Two Optionsof Model Resolutions from Fossil Free UMCand the United Methodist Creation Justice Movementare below. These two model resolutions are focused on annual conferences studying about and/or divesting their own conference portfolios from fossil fuels. See also another divestment resolution focused calling on on our UM Board of Pensions, Wespath, to divest from fossil fuels: Read more

  • A 2026 Model Annual Conference Resolution: Urging Fossil Fuel Divestment of All Denominational Funds at Wespath 

    A 2026 Model Annual Conference Resolution: Urging Fossil Fuel Divestment of All Denominational Funds at Wespath 

    This is a Model Annual Conference Resolution for 2026 calling on the United Methodist Church’s investment agency, Wespath, to add fossil fuels to its investment screens for all its portfolios in response to the damage caused by climate change. Any annual conference is welcome to use the model resolution as is or to change it Read more

  • Making the Right Decisions for the Wrong Reasons

    Making the Right Decisions for the Wrong Reasons

    Thoughts on Climate Finance After the Conclusion of COP30 Around the venue, (Photo: © UN Climate Change – Diego Herculano)Used under License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. By Rev. Joan Pell. Also published by United Methodist Insight and Texas Impact. You can read more about COP30 on the California-Nevada conference COP30 web pages Have you ever made the Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • “Fossil Fuels”: The New “F” Word

    “Fossil Fuels”: The New “F” Word

    COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels by Sharon Delgado Also published by United Methodist Insight. These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate change. COP 30 ended not only without the roadmap to Read more