Working Group
of Church
Investors (AKI)
Ethically-Sustainable
Investment.
People entrust their money to the church to make diaconal and church work possible. In church and diaconia, money is handled in responsibility before God and people - this also applies to investments. Church money is invested in order to be able to meet future payment obligations.
Invested money remains the property of the investors, who are responsible for the effects of the investment.
In order to do justice to this, ethical and sustainable goals are pursued in addition to economic ones: The money of the church and diakonia should be invested in accordance with God's commandments and the respective mission.
We are working on this with two focal points: the regularly updated guideline and engagement dialogues with companies - and we look forward to the exchange on this.
Church investors launch international engagement against deep-sea mining
11 June 2026
According to church investors and ecumenical organisations, deep-sea mining threatens marine ecosystems, the climate and the livelihoods of many coastal communities. That is why, on the initiative of the Working Group of Church Investors (AKI) and in collaboration with church development agencies, 17 institutional investors from 17 countries and various denominations have joined forces – in addition to the 47 Protestant member institutions of the AKI, these include six Jesuit provinces from across Europe, the Church of Sweden, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, one Austrian and two German dioceses, as well as the Catholic pension scheme in Germany, KZVK Cologne. Their shared goal as church investors: to persuade companies in the real and financial sectors to support a moratorium. The companies are to publicly commit not to source minerals from the deep seabed; to exclude such minerals from their supply chains; and not to finance deep seabed mining activities.
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As a membership organisation the AKI does not have any investments of its own. As such we regret that we cannot entertain any investment proposals or pass them on to our members.
