Laudato Si movement – COP30, in Brazil, 62 faith institutions announce fossil fuel divestment commitments

18th November 2025: Today 62 faith institutions announced their divestment from fossil fuel companies, sending a strong signal to negotiators at the UN climate summit in Brazil on the urgent need for fossil fuel phase out, given the harmful climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.

Today’s list of divesting institutions includes five Catholic dioceses (four in Italy and one in Canada), Catholic religious orders in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, Catholic and Protestant banks in Germany and 42 members of the Arbeitskreis Kirchlicher Investoren (AKI), a network of institutional investors in the German Protestant Church. A full list of divesting institutions is here.

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