We recently created some resources to people understand how pension funds are used to fuel the climate crisis and the solutions. You can find these videos on our new Pension Resources page.

In 2023 Republican lawmakers in 37 states introduced 165 pieces of legislation to weaponize government funds, contracts, and pensions to prevent companies and investors from considering commonplace risk factors in making responsible, risk-adjusted investment decisions. This report is the first comprehensive look at this legislative campaign and the broad effort to counter it.

Shareholder proposals seek to push corporations to disclose climate impacts, set emissions reduction goals and align their lobbying with their climate commitments. We are sharing links to key organizations who aggregate and flag these proposals as a tool for shareholders who want to vote for climate.

Mindy Lubber with Ceres takes the TED stage to show us the path to address the climate crisis. Spoiler alert! 100 companies are responsible for 80% of industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Let's start there.

Conservatives pushing anti-sustainable legislation and directives in six states could result in taxpayers wasting hundreds of millions in higher municipal bond interest payments

The new rule by the Department of Labor, allows retirement plans to treat sustainability as any other relevant factor, based on the fiduciary standards of prudence and loyalty. But some states have passed their own laws, which could have effects outside their own states. These crosscurrents will challenge investors and the fiduciaries who serve them and could have consequences for younger employees just beginning to save for retirement.

Spencer Glendon of Probable Futures connects the climate crisis to financial markets and talks through data in a way that we can imagine and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

Our friend and coalition partner Ben Cushing, Campaign Manager of the Sierra Club's Fossil-Free Finance campaign, does an excellent job explaining what's behind the fight against ESG and sustainable investing. Check out the article here.

CFA’s own Mary Cerulli has been appointed to the first ever Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board’s ESG Committee.

Do ESG metrics have zero impact long-term shareholder returns? To answer this question, we drank lots of coffee and dug into recent research.

Awareness and understanding of the term “ESG” is fairly low in the US, according to the newly released ESG Monitor report. In spite of that, expectations are high.

Climate Finance Action’s Mary Cerulli and others talk through how shareholder season works.