Green Investment Declaration
Make your money work for God's creation
Money has power and, for churches and Christian organisations, how that power is used matters.
Church investment decisions can either contribute to environmental harm or become a powerful expression of Christian ethical values, aligning financial stewardship with faith, justice, and care for God’s creation.
What would it look like for church investments to actively support climate solutions, care for creation and show leadership in investing in a just and sustainable future?
This initiative has been developed by Operation Noah and JustMoney Movement to support Churches and other faith institutions across the globe to increase their investments in climate solutions to build a greener future. It provides a clear framework for Christian ethical investment that is faithful, responsible, and financially robust.
By signing up to this Green Investment Declaration, your church or organisation is not just having a direct impact through your investments but, through speaking publicly about it, you’re also creating ripples throughout wider church and society encouraging others to do likewise. Together we can play our part in the restoration of Creation, starting with our finances.
About the Green Investment Declaration
Declaration Text
We (organisation name) believe that as a faith organisation we have the moral obligation to be advocates for climate, nature and humanity, which are all impacted by the climate crisis. We believe that our actions must help build a society that is just for all.
We therefore believe that it is our responsibility to align our investments with our faith values and move beyond negative screening to consider how our investments actively fund climate solutions to create positive social and environmental impacts.
By signing this declaration we acknowledge the importance of being on an investment journey to build a more just world for both people and the planet.
Three stages to the journey
Depending on where you are on your green investment journey, your organisation will start on one of three levels of this Declaration, outlined below.
As your green investments grow, so too will your Green Declaration, moving from an acorn, to a thriving sapling, to a mighty oak tree.
At each level, signatories will:
a) ensure their investment policy reflects the values of their organisation and its intention to invest in climate solutions; and
b) commit to promoting investments in climate solutions to their networks.
01 Acorn
Signatories at this level make a commitment to invest in climate solutions within 2-3 years, which includes ensuring their investment policy reflects the values of the organisation and its intention to invest in climate solutions.
02 Sapling
Signatories have already made their first investment in climate solutions and communicated this publicly, and have plans for further investments.
03 Oak
Signatories at this level will have already invested at least 5% of assets in climate solutions, and commit to significant increase in climate solutions within 5 years demonstrating this by creating an organisation plan for longer- term impact investing.
Register your interest
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