Below is a sample of the media coverage in 2025 for the Sierra Club's Sustainable Finance campaign.
December 2025
- Portfolio Adviser: Asset managers failing to address climate risk can ‘expect to lose clients’
November 2025
- Sacramento Bee: CalPERS expands climate investments. Some groups want more transparency (PDF)
- Net Zero Investor: CalPERS bets on real estate and equities as climate solution assets hit $60bn
October 2025
- Financial Times Sustainable Views: How sustainability teams can stay relevant after the boom
- Pensions & Investments: Sierra Club launches real-time tracker of public pension fund proxy voting policies (PDF)
- ESG Dive: Federal banking regulators withdraw guidance on climate risk management
September 2025
- Financial Times Sustainable Views op-ed: SBTi challenges finance to prove its climate commitments are credible
- Bloomberg: Trump Administration Scraps Oversight Groups on Climate and Financial Risk
- Pensions & Investments: Sierra Club targets pension ‘portfolio greenwashing’ with new climate principles (PDF)
- In These Times: Financing Our Own Destruction
August 2025
July 2025
- Rolling Stone: Sustainable Finance: The Long Game Starts Now
- Financial Times Sustainable Views: SBTi’s net zero financial standard tests industry’s climate resolve
June 2025
- Common Dreams op-ed: Why Save for Retirement If You'll Be Living in a Climate Hellscape?
- Semafor: BlackRock is writing a playbook for navigating the ESG backlash
- "The Long Term Will Be Decided Now" white paper
- Financial Times Sustainable Views: Conventional ESG strategies not enough to avert $38tn climate shock
- Portfolio Advisor: Sierra Club urges institutional investors to treat climate change as a systemic financial threat
- Sierra Magazine op-ed: The Climate Crisis Is an Economy-Wide Threat. Investors Must Treat It That Way.
- Bill McKibben's "Crucial Years" Newsletter: So many moving pieces
- Net Zero Investor op-ed: The 2025 proxy season is the latest sign sustainable investing needs a systemic reset
- "Banking on Climate Chaos" report
- Financial Times: Banks boosted fossil fuel finance by more than a fifth in 2024, report says
- Guardian: World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds
- Wall Street Journal: Global Banks Increase Fossil-Fuel Funding as Climate Pledges Crumble
- Mother Jones: Boosted by Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels
- Sierra Magazine: While Global Temperatures Soar, Banks Are Stepping Up Support for Fossil Fuels
- Inside Climate News: The World’s Banks are Still Betting on Fossil Fuel Industry Growth
May 2025
- Inside Climate News: Policy Experts Fear Laxer Climate Rules Could Leave U.S. Markets Open to Greater Volatility
April 2025
- Maryland Matters op-ed: Maryland pensions make strides on climate, but there’s more work to do
- Yale Climate Connections Podcast: Can your pension withstand climate change?
- ESG Investor: US States’ Climate Ambition Under Threat
March 2025
- The Rift Podcast: Climate Risk in Public Pensions with Allie Lindstrom
- Sierra Magazine: US Banks Quit Climate Alliances and Targets. What Does This Mean for a Green Transition?
- The Hill: SEC votes to stop defending climate disclosure rule
- New York Times: Pension Funds Push Forward on Climate Goals Despite Backlash
- California Common Good report
- Bloomberg Law: California Pension Fund Labels Chevron and Saudi Aramco as Climate Investments
- Pensions & Investments: CalPERS' investment director calls for more climate opportunity disclosures
- Responsible Investor: CalPERS defends inclusion of oil giants in climate solutions portfolio
February 2025
- The Banker: Trump’s climate rollback: will US banks hold their ground?
- Climate Home News: The world’s biggest climate finance coalition is in crisis. Is it worth saving?
- Reuters: Wells Fargo drops financed emissions target amid ESG rethink
- "The Hidden Risk In State Pensions" report
- Bloomberg Law: Public Pension Proxy Voting Targeted by Calls for Climate Action
- Responsible Investor: Blue state US pension funds 'lack consistency' on climate voting
- Pensions & Investments: ‘Far too many’ pension funds fall short in addressing climate change via proxy voting, report finds
- ESG Investor: Majority of US Pensions Disappoint on Climate
- Sierra Magazine: Climate Change Imperils Pensions. Here’s How Some Investment Managers Protect Them.