The 5th edition of the Faith-based Investment Conference took place in hybrid format on 21 January, bringing together investors, faith-based organisations, and other financial actors at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva and online. This year, the theme was “From words to action.”
Speaking at a panel on the role of faiths in questioning and shaping finance in society, Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, deputy general secretary for Public Witness and Diakonia at the World Council of Churches (WCC) underlined that “the transformation to an equitable and ecologically nourishing economy entails critically engaging with the question of investment for what and for whom? It entails a shift in temporal perspectives…to long-term envisioning.
It entails redefining financial terms such as ‘risk’…to account for community and ecological wellbeing.” Here, the role of faiths cannot be discounted.
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