A Decade of Faithful Action: Celebrating the Bright Now Campaign + Looking Ahead
After more than ten years of prayer, persistence and prophetic witness, we are delighted to celebrate the culmination of our award-winning Bright Now campaign – a movement which has helped shift nearly every UK denomination away from fossil fuel investments. Together, we have helped to make tens of billions of pounds off-limits to the industry driving global heating.
Diocese of Chichester Drops Investments in BP and Shell, Investments of all 42 Church of England Dioceses Now ‘Fossil Free’
Operation Noah is pleased to announce that the Diocese of Chichester has divested from BP and Shell and no longer holds any investments in fossil fuel companies. Chichester was the final Church of England diocese to divest; now that it has, all 42 Church of England dioceses have taken their money out of fossil fuels, as have the National Investing Bodies of the Church of England, which include the Pensions Board and Church Commissioners. The full divestment by the Church of England is the culmination of Operation Noah’s Bright Now Campaign, which for over 10 years has worked to ensure that UK Churches and faith bodies take their money out of fossil fuels and stop funding the driving cause of global heating.
November 2025 Newsletter
In our November 2025 newsletter, we review all that happened (and didn’t) at COP30, update you on our Church land use campaign, consider timber as a climate solution, invite you to give to Operation Noah this Advent, and much more.
Climate Campaigner Hannah Eves Shares Experience at COP30
Hannah Eves – a Christian climate campaigner who also works for Tearfund – was selected for the Christian Climate Observers’ Programme and travelled to Brazil for COP30. Last month, she shared her hopes for COP30 with Operation Noah; this month, she shares her insights from the UN climate summit.
Timber as a Climate Solution
Chopping down trees to help solve climate breakdown appears to be counterintuitive, but the science backs this approach when sustainably grown mature trees are used in place of carbon-intensive building materials. In this guest blog, Paul Brannen – author of ‘Timber! How Wood Can Help Save the World from Climate Breakdown’ – explains.
Operation Noah Seeks New Trustees
Operation Noah is looking for new trustees to help lead our mission to inspire and equip the Church to take action on climate change. In this voluntary position, you will play an active role in shaping the strategic direction of the charity and supporting its growth.
October 2025 Newsletter
It was encouraging to see Pope Leo and King Charles pray together at the Vatican. Not only was it an historic display of Christian unity, but, as the Vatican’s official news agency reported, the visit – originally scheduled for April, but cancelled due to Pope Francis’ ill health – was always intended to highlight the environmental crisis ten years after the publication of Pope Francis’s groundbreaking encyclical, ‘Laudato Si’’. Yet this visit, albeit with a different Pope, still brought together two leaders who share a passion for protecting our common home, and who both understand the role that churches and faith communities must play in caring for creation.
Tearfund’s Hannah Eves Looks Ahead to COP30 and her Role at the Conference
After years of host countries with limited civil society engagement, it is exciting to see Brazilian civil society able to make a big noise for climate action. This could be the “People’s COP” – and I hope it will be.
A Reflection on the Appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury
Rachie Ross, a former Operation Noah trustee, reflects on the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, writing: ‘Meeting Bishop Sarah face to face in 2021 to discuss fossil fuel divestment in the Diocese of London, I was met with humility, respect and keen interest.’
‘Raising Hope’ for the Climate with Pope Leo: an Interview with Lorna Gold
Though she is well known in climate campaigning circles, Dr Lorna Gold recently came to international attention for her role in this month’s ‘Raising Hope’ Conference, attended by Pope Leo. Lorna was not only involved in organising the conference, but was also invited to share the stage with Pope Leo at the opening event which was held in Castel Gandolfo, home to a papal residence.
