This is a really important compilation of actions that states should take to mitigate climate risks & protect their economies. I was proud to contribute to the section on how public pensions can lead. Bravo to @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social, @kostyack.bsky.social & everyone that worked on this!

So my ask: commit to helping Sierra Club or any other organization that is standing with us in this struggle. I just hosted a house party for Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program, one of the organization's crown jewels. Give money, take action, do something, but don't take the bait. 8/

If you read that @nytimes.com hit piece about @sierraclub.org and thought it didn’t quite smell right, you were right... Here’s our Executive Director, Loren Blackford, setting the record straight — starting with what it got wrong about the organization 👇 www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...

"Saying that the Sierra Club’s problems are all *because of woke* is both entirely too trite and entirely incorrect." Read the whole thing for great insights about organizing, generational changes, this terrible moment & implicitly, WTF is going on at the NYTimes.

The Sierra Club is always evolving, but our mission stays constant: ensure everyone in this country has access to clean air, clean water, affordable clean energy, and public lands. We’re focused on the work ahead. Onwards, together.

This weekend, the New York Times ran a story claiming Sierra Club’s values have diluted our mission. They couldn’t be more wrong. The list of their errors is too long for one social post, but we go over some examples in these slides.

How should state & local pensions respond to the GenAI / data center boom, arguably the largest private infrastructure project in world history? In @forbes.com, I argue they have a fiduciary duty to assess & mitigate systemic risks arising from data center contributions to rising GHG emissions.

🚨 We just launched an interactive tracker analyzing the proxy voting guidelines of major U.S. public pensions. 🔍Take a look & learn how these influential investors decide where to cast their votes on shareholder proposals at major corporations.

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

US banking regulators just withdrew guidance from 2 years ago on how big banks should manage climate risks. The science hasn’t changed & the risks have only grown. The only difference is who’s in the White House. So much for the Fed’s vaunted “independence” from politics.

🚨 @sierraclub.org just launched an interactive tracker analyzing the proxy voting guidelines of major U.S. public pensions. 🔍Take a look & learn how these important investors decide where to cast their votes on shareholder proposals at major corporations. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

"Pension fund managers and other long-term asset owners have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the interests of beneficiaries decades into the future — not least by acting against long-term climate risks." Important piece on @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/4h8q20e

👀🙂 www.commondreams.org/news/zohran-...

"As some of the world’s largest institutional investors, pension funds are especially exposed to the risks posed by climate change. They’re also uniquely positioned to address them." @rebeccaburns.bsky.social on how to reclaim pensions for the common good. inthesetimes.com/article/fina...

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

Trump just handed $625M to Big Coal + opened millions of acres for mining. Meanwhile, utilities are STILL clinging to expensive fossil fuels. Our 5th Dirty Truth report shows the cost is falling on families. #DirtyTruthReport sc.org/dirtytruth

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️ Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

Sierra Club's @jessyewaxman.bsky.social talks with @inthesetimes.com about our work to push pension to stop buying new bonds issued by fossil fuel companies hoping to raise 💰💰💰 for pipelines, refineries & more.

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Honored to join leaders from the NYC Comptroller’s Office, Ethic, & Sierra Club Foundation during #ClimateWeekNYC to discuss climate & fiduciary duty. I shared insights from my paper on why & how investors must confront climate change as a systemic financial risk: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

☀️ Sun Day has begun across almost all 50 states of the U.S. and it's already looking bright 👉 Read all about how people are taking action by @nytimes.com before finding a Sun Day event happening near YOU today: sunday.earth www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Climate change is the single greatest systemic risk facing our economy, and pension funds are on the front lines. Retirement savings should not prop up polluting infrastructure — they should fund investments that cut emissions, build resilience & protect nature.

These principles — developed alongside dozens of labor, environmental, and public interest groups — mark the first time we have clearly defined what climate investments should, and should not, look like.

Our new principles guide financial institutions like pensions on how to make credible investments in climate solutions. It goes beyond support for clean energy technologies and includes things like community resilience, green jobs & more.

🚨 BIG NEWS: Sierra Club has released new guidance for financial institutions on what constitutes credible investments in #climate solutions. To protect savings, investments must cut emissions, support workers, protect nature & build resilient communities. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Too often, pensions & other financial institutions make splashy "climate solutions" pledges with little transparency or credibility. That’s why @sierraclub.org & partners just published new Principles for Climate Solutions Investments to guide what should (and shouldn't) count. 🔗👇

Annual shareholder meeting season might be over, but our push on major investors is only just beginning. Join us in calling on major investors like public pensions to use their shareholder power to demand corporate climate action. bit.ly/4gqDxYQ

The Sierra Club’s member-elected Board of Directors has unanimously appointed Loren Blackford as our next Executive Director, making her the first woman to lead the Sierra Club in our 133-year history!

💰 New net zero standards require the financial sector to stop funding oil & gas expansion by 2030. Will big US banks rise to the challenge? ✍️ @jessyewaxman.bsky.social delves into the issue for @financialtimes.com @sustainableviews.bsky.social

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

We can't afford to ignore the threat that the climate crisis poses to the economy and long-term investments. @sierraclub.org applauds the Sierra Club Foundation for leading by example by moving its assets from BlackRock to more responsible asset managers. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

"Investors must stop treating climate just as a risk to manage— and start working to mitigate it. Avoiding climate breakdown is in investors’ best interest, even when it conflicts with some companies’ short-term incentives. It’s time for more investors to confront that reality— and act accordingly"

The climate crisis isn’t just an environmental threat. It’s a growing danger to global economic stability—and to the long-term investments that millions of people depend on for their futures. Read more: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/clima...

New piece on @netzeroinvestor.net today: Building on my recent paper and this year’s proxy season, it argues investors need a fundamental reset in how they approach climate risk—not just as a firm-level threat to manage, but a system-wide threat to mitigate. ➡️ www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...

Oregon lawmakers just passed a first-of-its-kind bill directing the state pension fund PERS to address how climate change threatens public workers' retirement savings. #ORpol #ORleg @orsierraclub.bsky.social

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

The Long Term Will Be Decided Now: Why #ClimateRisk Demands System-Level Action from Investors This paper makes the case that investors must treat climate change not just as a risk to individual companies. Author: Ben Cushing Read More: http://spkl.io/63320fh3Ci

🥇 Oregon’s pension fund was ranked 6th out of 32 by the Sierra Club — and it’s the first US state pension plan to receive full legislative backing for climate alignment. 📊 Meanwhile Ortec Finance warns pension returns could drop 50% by 2040 if climate risks aren’t addressed. 🌡️

🇺🇸 🏛️ Oregon has passed a bipartisan law directing the state treasurer to address how climate change threatens its $101bn public pension fund. This comes as the Trump admin moves to scrap federal ESG rules. 🔁 GreenCB.co/4jSlNpb #ClimateFinance

Having grown up reading & being inspired by @billmckibben.bsky.social, I still have to pinch myself a bit when he shouts out the work my team & I do—and here that includes three recent updates: 📝 my new paper 📊 Banking on Climate Chaos 🏛️ a new law in Oregon! billmckibben.substack.com/p/so-many-mo...

Strong story on the new @sierraclub.org report demonstrating that investors need to demand stronger action from corporations to avoid a $38 Trillion shock created by the climate crisis. @elizabethmeager.bsky.social 1/ www.sustainableviews.com/conventional...

Climate costs are mounting & will accelerate if emissions aren’t cut. By 2050, we could see $38T/year in losses & a 40% drop in global stock values—devastating millions of retirement funds. Yet investors still treat it only as a risk to individual firms’ profits: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

Even #sustainability focused #investing won’t do enough to prevent catastrophic #climate impact on the global economy. See the strategies @bmcushing.bsky.social of @sierraclub.org says investors can take. #climatefinance #climatemitigation #ESG www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-long-ter...

It probably won't surprise either of you that I, for one, was quite alarmed by the casual nature of his answer and the Fed's subsequent decision to *stop* its climate work. "Banks won't exist in entire regions of the country" is quite obviously a Fed issue! greencentralbanking.com/2025/03/18/f...

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event