Hello from FaithInvest – we hope you are all keeping safe and well in these strange times. 

Despite coronavirus, FaithInvest has been very busy developing partnerships and programmes in recent months. Although we are sad that Covid-19 forced the cancellation of our full schedule of events for the year – including our Inaugural Member Event – we are planning to reschedule them as soon as it is safe to travel.

Therefore, we are now organising a series of online events and webinars for the weeks and months ahead. See below for details as well as of the exciting developments for our Faith Long-term Plans programme, which we are organising in partnership with the International Network for Conservation and Religion (INCR) and WWF-UK.

WEBINARS AND EVENTS

• 28 September 2020: Leaders' Pledge for Nature and Faith Call to Action
  This event is the NGO preparatory meeting held ahead of the UN Biodiversity Summit on September 30 and will launch two major initiatives – the Leaders' Pledge for Nature and the Faith Call to Action. FaithInvest CEO Martin Palmer is participating and has also recorded two video messages on each, committing to these major statements on behalf of FaithInvest. The first action point in the Faith Call to Action is for all faiths to consider creating a Faith Long-term Plan (see the Faith Long-term Plans section below).
• 19 October 2020: Religions for Peace/FaithInvest joint webinar
  FaithInvest is forming a partnership with Religions for Peace – the largest multi-faith coalition of religious institutions and leaders in the world. This webinar for, and with, RfP members will discuss 'Responding to Climate and Ecological Crisis through Multi-religious Collaboration', including the Faith Long-term Plans. 
• 20 October 2020: Creating your Long-term Plan: FaithInvest/INCR joint webinar
  This is the first in a series of webinars on the Faith Long-term Plans, and will be an introduction to the programme and process of developing a Plan. See below for more details.
• 26-27 October 2029: Swiss Impact Investment Association Virtual Summit 2020
  This year's SIIA Summit has the theme of Planet, Humanity and Finance, and brings together financial professionals, policy makers, investors, impact start-ups and academics. Speakers include FaithInvest CEO Martin Palmer, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Norge Finans, the European Climate Foundation and others. 
• November 2020: 'From Engagement to Investment' webinar
  Hosted by FaithInvest, with guest speaker Josh Zinner, CEO of ICCR, and Martin Palmer, CEO of FaithInvest. It will explore the impact of shareholder advocacy in integrating values into corporate actions, and showcase how to develop positive screening policies for faith-consistent investing.  Date to be confirmed shortly.
• 16 November 2020: FaithInvest/Lassalle Institut Leadership Programme webinar
  The Leadership training course has already been postponed once from May, and is still unable to take place in person. FaithInvest/Lassalle Institut are co-hosting a webinar on the theme Building Bridges – between faiths and the investment community in particular. 
• 16-17 January 2021: Faith-driven investing conference, Geneva, Switzerland
  Entitled 'Faith-driven Investing: Walk the talk', this conference is organised by Geneva Agape Foundation, FaithInvest, the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance's Business coalition. It will be held both in person and online.

FAITH LONG-TERM PLANS

Working in partnership with the International Network for Conservation and Religion (INCR) and WWF, FaithInvest has launched a major new programme engaging faiths to develop plans to use their assets and influence – including their investments – to drive practical action to benefit people and planet. On Monday September 28, we will officially announce the Faith Long-term Plans programme at the global NGO event for the UN's first Biodiversity Summit, where the Leaders' Pledge for Nature and Faith Call to Action will be announced.

This programme has generated huge interest from religious groups. Already 60 faiths from around the world have signed up to develop a Plan, and we are anticipating at least 100 will do so by the time we launch them in June 2021, ahead of the UN's COP26 climate change conference. INCR will be responsible for delivering much of this programme; FaithInvest will focus on the specific issue of encouraging faiths to develop policies aligning their investments with their faith values in their Plans.

Interested in joining the Faith Long-term Plans programme?

Webinar series for the Plans

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