The CCLA and Church Investors Group write to 100 largest listed UK employers, asking questions around support provided to staff during the cost-of-living crisis.

The rise of economic nationalism, driven in no small part by an increasingly populist agenda in many countries and regions across the globe, has combined with disruptions arising from the Covid-19 pandemic to herald predictions that we have reached the end of a prolonged period of globalisation, which has been the predominant global economic theme for much of the period since 1945. Commentators are now asserting that we have now entered a period of deglobalisation, namely the swift reshoring of production and the shortening of supply chains.

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to increase its Official Bank Rate by 0.50% to 1.75% – its highest rate since 2008. The Bank’s move was the biggest single increase since 1995, also marking the sixth consecutive rate hike since last December.

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing is important to building prosperous societies, because healthy people are the foundation of healthy economies. CCLA joined a coalition of investors to urge the government to review its national food strategy, because we believe that affordable and sustainable food systems are fundamental to support healthy communities.

A coalition of 29 asset owners, institutional investors and stewardship service providers representing $7 trillion in assets, has written to the CEOs of 100 of the UK’s largest listed companies, urging them to take immediate and concerted steps to develop and implement effective management systems and processes on workplace mental health.