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[Church of England News] Media Centre News List: The Church of England's national investing bodies have written to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) Secretariat to confirm their signing up to the initiative's principles in addition to their commitment to the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group.

[Thinking Anglicans] Thinking Anglicans: Caterpillar: the EIAG statement: The Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG), on which the three main investment and Trustee bodies of the Church of England - the Church Commissioners, the Central Board of Finance and the Church of England Pensions Board - are represented together with representatives, [of] the General Synod, the Archbishops’ Council and the Mission and Public Affairs Council [are represented], carries out on their behalf ethical investment research, develops policy and communicates this to the wider Church.

[Church Times] Church Times - It's no longer just profit v. principle: The Church In­vestors Group (CIG) is an ecumenical alliance of investing bodies from various denominations, dioceses, religious societies, and Christian charities, in which, Mr Mason says, the Church of England plays a key part: “We can be a strong force in social engagement, not only because the £7 billion of assets we represent forms the largest share of the £13 billion of the group combined.

[Diocese of London News] Church national investing bodies approve ethical investment policy ...: For companies involved in conventional weaponry, the EIAG recommended a threshold for turnover from strategic military sales which, once exceeded, should make a company an inappropriate investment for the Church national investing bodies. This threshold, which has been accepted by the investing bodies, is 10% of turnover.

[Exploring the Connections] ENGLAND: Church sells shares in Vedanta mining company on ethical ...: The church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) advised divestment (referred to as disinvestment in the U.K.) because its engagement with the mining company had produced no substantive results, the church said in a press release. "We are not satisfied that Vedanta has shown, or is likely in future to show, the level of respect for human rights and local communities that we expect of companies in whom the church investing bodies hold shares."

[EcoGEOS] Church national investing bodies approve ethical investment policy ...: companies involved in conventional weaponry, the EIAG recommended a threshold for turnover from strategic military sales which, once exceeded, should make a company an inappropriate investment for the Church national investing bodies.

[Resources Research] The last stand of the Dongria Kondh « Resources Research: The organisation has filmed and produced a short and stirring video on the lives of the Dongria Kondh, who with other local Kondh people are resisting Vedanta Resources, a Britain-registered company determined to mine their sacred mountain’s rich seam of bauxite (aluminium ore). The Dongria Kondh, an 8,000-strong adivasi (indigenous) community spread over 90 villages in and around the hills, are determined to save Niyamgiri from becoming an industrial wasteland.

[Irene Lancaster's Diary] Wolf in Sheep's clothing: all the better to eat you with, my dear: And I realised to my horror, and discussed it with Lucille on the way back, that this had been worse than the famous mediaeval Spanish disputations forced on the Jewish community by the Catholic church, because at least in those days you were given plenty of notice and allowed to speak as long as the other side, whereas in 2006 in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, it was taken for granted that the speaker was speaking, not with forked tongue, but the truth and that the others were just out to get him. And this is the real tragedy of Britain at the moment.

[Bigbulkyanglican] Israel Palestine Debate: “I have seen much of Sizer's writings and I think he realised pretty quickthat with the audience not being total groupies of his, he would have to tonethings down. But it was still an unsightly mix of demonisation, innuendo,half-truths, outright lies and propaganda, making use of many of the techniquesused by Jew-haters throughout the ages (even though he of course stated thatsome of his best friends were Israeli Jews).”

[Nullifidian] The (hypocritical) ethics of gambling: The EIAG develops and co-ordinates ethical investment policy for the Church of England investing bodies through a process of research and consultation. It offers practical advice in a theological context and seeks to promote high standards of corporate behaviour and the principles of integrity, accountability and transparency in corporate life.

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