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November 2, 2017: PRESS RELEASE: Major new alliance of religious investment funds creating a better and fairer world A global movement aimed at shifting billions of dollars of faith-based investments into initiatives supporting sustainable development and the environment has been launched in Zug, Switzerland.

October 24, 2017: PRESS RELEASE: Faith groups using their investment funds to create a better world ZUG, SWITZERLAND: October 24, 2017: Financial investors and leaders of more than 30 different faith traditions representing over 500 faith investment groups from eight religions and around three trillion dollars in assets, will meet in Zug this month, together with representatives of the UN and some key ethical “impact” investment funds, for a unique international meeting on Faith in Finance.

July 23 2017: PRESS RELEASE: First Sacred Cities Investment meeting, London July 24-25 Representatives of faith-based sacred city proposals totalling nearly a billion dollars will discuss how their initiatives can be funded. They will do so, in part, because Hollywood actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger, concluded that sacred cities should be models for successful sustainable development around the world.

July 23, 2017: PRESS RELEASE: Society for Conservation Biology gives inaugural Assisi Award for faith-based conservation The inaugural award for faith-based conservation, given by the Society for Conservation Biology, is named after the historic 1986 ARC-WWF meeting of religions and conservationists at Assisi, Italy, when these issues were discussed formally between these groups for the very first time.

February 15, 2017: PRESS RELEASE: Religions to be partners in Earth Hour 2017 A new initiative, led by WWF-UK and with the help of ARC brings Earth Hour to churches and other places of worshipy. The hope is to encourage even more Christians and members of other religious communities to come together, switch off the electricity, light candles and think about protecting the planet and how to live more simply. Resource pack available here.

November 18, 2015: PRESS RELEASE Pilgrim cities around the world to go greener thanks to Schwarzenegger initiative “Faithful Cities – pilgrims for a living planet” will work with pilgrimage cities of the world to develop sustainable technology and make them greener, cleaner and more resilient.

November 18, 2015: PRESS RELEASE: French President sends letter to Heads of State about COP as matter for personal conscience PARIS: A dramatic appeal, sent this week personally by French President Francois Hollande to every Head of State attending the launch on November 30 of the Paris Climate Change COP asks each of them to answer a simple question: “Why do I care?” about the climate.

March 21, 2014: PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable agriculture manual for Muslim farmers to be launched in Kenya next week The first manual in conservation agriculture specifically designed for Muslim farmers in Africa will be launched in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday March 27 – providing a tool to introduce millions of Muslim farmers to sustainable farming practices for the first time.

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