sustainable-finance

August 12, 2026

BOSTON, MA — The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (MassPRIM) has completed a review of how active equity managers assess climate-transition risk in high-emitting portfolio companies and incorporate that analysis into their investment decisions. The fund plans to use the findings in its overall evaluation of manager quality and the selection of new active managers.

August 3, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. As the public comment period closes today on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rule, the Sierra Club submitted and joined multiple filings opposing the rollback. These include an organizational comment, a grassroots submission backed by more than 2,000 Sierra Club members and supporters, and two coalition comment letters addressing the proposal’s legal and financial-market implications.

July 24, 2026

NEW YORK, NY — The Center for Active Stewardship (CAS) announced today the addition of the Sierra Club’s Hidden Risk scorecard to its public proxy voting Scorecards platform, which tracks how leading asset managers and their funds vote on shareholder proposals. 

The two largest US asset managers, Vanguard and BlackRock, scored 0% and 1% alignment with Sierra Club recommendations, compared to several dozen institutions with 100% alignment. 

June 12, 2026

Search should ensure pension mandates are awarded only to firms with credible climate-risk management and responsible stewardship

June 9, 2026

NEW YORK, NY — The 17th edition of the Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report released today finds that the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to fossil fuel companies in 2025, an increase of 8% from the previous year. Since the Paris Agreement was signed a decade ago, these banks have channeled $8.7 trillion into oil, gas, and coal operations.

May 29, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today formally proposed rescinding its 2024 climate disclosure rule, moving forward with an effort to eliminate federal requirements for public companies to disclose standardized information about financially material climate-related risks and, for some companies, greenhouse gas emissions.

May 14, 2026

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May 7, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted a proposed rule titled “Rescission of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules” to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, advancing the agency’s effort to formally rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rule.

April 28, 2026

Annual reports show progress toward net-zero goals and highlight next steps on climate-solutions standards and asset manager accountability

April 9, 2026

Report evaluates and ranks 33 of the largest funds, highlighting gaps in proxy voting practices

February 25, 2026

NEW YORK — The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) announced today that it has relaunched the initiative, in a move that comes almost exactly one year after NZAM suspended activities in the wake of the departure of one of its

February 5, 2026

Sierra Club says ruling bolsters investors’ ability to manage financial risks without political interference