Climate Finance Action
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We equip stakeholders and decision-makers to leverage the transformative power of publicly-held capital for real-world climate solutions 🌱💪
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State pension funds manage trillions of dollars, yet much of that capital still flows away from the places it’s meant to support, with climate risk being treated as a future concern. Our new white paper outlines how funds can move beyond outdated models.
Unlocking State Power: Overcoming Barriers to In-State Climate Investment for Pension Funds — Climate Finance Action
Explore the structural barriers that keep pension funds from acting on climate risk, shows where the biggest opportunities actually sit, and offers practical steps trustees and staff can use to make…
www.climatefinanceaction.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 AM
State pension funds manage trillions of dollars, yet much of that capital still flows away from the places it’s meant to support, with climate risk being treated as a future concern. Our new white paper outlines how funds can move beyond outdated models.
Our new white paper breaks down the biggest barriers that keep pension funds from investing in high-potential infrastructure and resilience projects and outlines practical steps trustees, staff, and policymakers can take right now.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Our new white paper breaks down the biggest barriers that keep pension funds from investing in high-potential infrastructure and resilience projects and outlines practical steps trustees, staff, and policymakers can take right now.
🔗 Download now at www.climatefinanceaction.org/white-paper-...
🔗 Download now at www.climatefinanceaction.org/white-paper-...
Private markets don’t have to be a black box. With the right tools, pension stakeholders can ask better questions, strengthen accountability, and protect long-term retirement security in a rapidly changing climate.
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Private markets don’t have to be a black box. With the right tools, pension stakeholders can ask better questions, strengthen accountability, and protect long-term retirement security in a rapidly changing climate.
CFA is a nonprofit with a clear vision: a thriving planet and an inclusive economy where financial decisions account for climate risk and worker well-being.
Learn more and make a donation today at www.climatefinanceaction.org/donate
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Learn more and make a donation today at www.climatefinanceaction.org/donate
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Support CFA — Climate Finance Action
A donation to Climate Finance Action scales up proven solutions for a just transition to an inclusive economy.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:31 PM
CFA is a nonprofit with a clear vision: a thriving planet and an inclusive economy where financial decisions account for climate risk and worker well-being.
Learn more and make a donation today at www.climatefinanceaction.org/donate
#ClimateFinanceAction
Learn more and make a donation today at www.climatefinanceaction.org/donate
#ClimateFinanceAction
Our eyes often glaze over when we are talking about trillions of dollars. To translate that into everyday terms, $6.17 trillion works out to over $18,000 per person in the United States or over $72,000 for a family of four.
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How Our Public Pension Dollars Can Advance Climate Justice | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Public pension funds have more than $6 trillion in assets, over $500 billion in California alone. These dollars can be mobilized to support climate justice—if they are so used.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Our eyes often glaze over when we are talking about trillions of dollars. To translate that into everyday terms, $6.17 trillion works out to over $18,000 per person in the United States or over $72,000 for a family of four.
Continue Reading: nonprofitquarterly.org/how-our-publ...
Continue Reading: nonprofitquarterly.org/how-our-publ...
In-state economic resilience investments could bring many benefits to pension funds. But to scale it up, Funds must address organizational barriers to set them up for success.
Explore examples of how successful funds are doing it in our white paper at
Explore examples of how successful funds are doing it in our white paper at
Unlocking State Power: Overcoming Barriers to In-State Climate Investment for Pension Funds — Climate Finance Action
Explore the structural barriers that keep pension funds from acting on climate risk, shows where the biggest opportunities actually sit, and offers practical steps trustees and staff can use to make…
www.climatefinanceaction.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:24 AM
In-state economic resilience investments could bring many benefits to pension funds. But to scale it up, Funds must address organizational barriers to set them up for success.
Explore examples of how successful funds are doing it in our white paper at
Explore examples of how successful funds are doing it in our white paper at
Public capital has the potential to do more than secure retirements—it can create quality jobs and build vital state infrastructure.
Our white paper, Unlocking State Power, demonstrates how pension funds can strategically invest in local economic resilience projects.
Our white paper, Unlocking State Power, demonstrates how pension funds can strategically invest in local economic resilience projects.
January 15, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Public capital has the potential to do more than secure retirements—it can create quality jobs and build vital state infrastructure.
Our white paper, Unlocking State Power, demonstrates how pension funds can strategically invest in local economic resilience projects.
Our white paper, Unlocking State Power, demonstrates how pension funds can strategically invest in local economic resilience projects.
Our Mapping Board and Influencers to Build Power worksheets help you identify the right people, conversations, and shared interests to strengthen protections for your pension.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Our Mapping Board and Influencers to Build Power worksheets help you identify the right people, conversations, and shared interests to strengthen protections for your pension.
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Why are public pension funds sitting on trillions in capital while electricity grids need updating, and extreme-weather defence upgrades need to be restored?
Read this article by Elizabeth Meager featuring CFA to find out.
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Read this article by Elizabeth Meager featuring CFA to find out.
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Trillions in US pension assets out of reach for local climate projects
Public pension funds control $6.6tn in assets, yet invest little in local climate mitigation or resilience, a report finds US states are facing a widening gap in funding for climate-resilient…
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January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Why are public pension funds sitting on trillions in capital while electricity grids need updating, and extreme-weather defence upgrades need to be restored?
Read this article by Elizabeth Meager featuring CFA to find out.
www.sustainableviews.com/gift-article...
Read this article by Elizabeth Meager featuring CFA to find out.
www.sustainableviews.com/gift-article...
A strong transition plan anticipates risk.
Our blog breaks down key indicators of a climate-ready pension fund and why tools like science-based targets and transition readiness assessments are essential to long-term security.
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Our blog breaks down key indicators of a climate-ready pension fund and why tools like science-based targets and transition readiness assessments are essential to long-term security.
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Building an Effective Climate Risk Transition Plan for Pension Funds — Climate Finance Action
Addressing physical and climate transition risks is essential to protecting long-term retirement, and that's why more resilient pension funds use science-based climate measurement tools and a…
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January 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
A strong transition plan anticipates risk.
Our blog breaks down key indicators of a climate-ready pension fund and why tools like science-based targets and transition readiness assessments are essential to long-term security.
🔗 www.climatefinanceaction.org/blog/buildin...
Our blog breaks down key indicators of a climate-ready pension fund and why tools like science-based targets and transition readiness assessments are essential to long-term security.
🔗 www.climatefinanceaction.org/blog/buildin...
Long-term capital 🤝🏼 Long-term thinking
Climate risk exposes the gap between decades-long obligations and short-term tools. Supporting decision makers and stakeholders to strengthen governance, integrate policy, and improve processes is essential to closing that gap and building resilient systems.
Climate risk exposes the gap between decades-long obligations and short-term tools. Supporting decision makers and stakeholders to strengthen governance, integrate policy, and improve processes is essential to closing that gap and building resilient systems.
January 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Long-term capital 🤝🏼 Long-term thinking
Climate risk exposes the gap between decades-long obligations and short-term tools. Supporting decision makers and stakeholders to strengthen governance, integrate policy, and improve processes is essential to closing that gap and building resilient systems.
Climate risk exposes the gap between decades-long obligations and short-term tools. Supporting decision makers and stakeholders to strengthen governance, integrate policy, and improve processes is essential to closing that gap and building resilient systems.
Pension funds are built for the long term, but their systems often aren’t.
CFA develops practical resources that help trustees, staff, and stakeholders align governance, risk management, and processes with the realities of climate risk.
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CFA develops practical resources that help trustees, staff, and stakeholders align governance, risk management, and processes with the realities of climate risk.
Learn more:
Resources — Climate Finance Action
Explore resources to better understand and limit climate risk for pension funds to ensure stronger long-term health, financial sustainability, and security of public workers’ retirement futures.
www.climatefinanceaction.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Pension funds are built for the long term, but their systems often aren’t.
CFA develops practical resources that help trustees, staff, and stakeholders align governance, risk management, and processes with the realities of climate risk.
Learn more:
CFA develops practical resources that help trustees, staff, and stakeholders align governance, risk management, and processes with the realities of climate risk.
Learn more:
Policies without operational follow-through don’t reduce risk.
What matters is whether those policies are embedded in governance, investment processes, and accountability systems.
Integration is the work. Pension stakeholders feel the consequences when it’s missing.
What matters is whether those policies are embedded in governance, investment processes, and accountability systems.
Integration is the work. Pension stakeholders feel the consequences when it’s missing.
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Policies without operational follow-through don’t reduce risk.
What matters is whether those policies are embedded in governance, investment processes, and accountability systems.
Integration is the work. Pension stakeholders feel the consequences when it’s missing.
What matters is whether those policies are embedded in governance, investment processes, and accountability systems.
Integration is the work. Pension stakeholders feel the consequences when it’s missing.
Most funds agree that climate risk is material. Fewer have aligned policies, incentives, and authority to act on it.
That gap is where progress stalls.
That gap is where progress stalls.
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Most funds agree that climate risk is material. Fewer have aligned policies, incentives, and authority to act on it.
That gap is where progress stalls.
That gap is where progress stalls.
Trillions in pension capital move through the economy, often without input from the people whose futures are invested.
What would it look like if the people whose retirements are on the line had a real voice in how that capital is deployed?
What would it look like if the people whose retirements are on the line had a real voice in how that capital is deployed?
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Trillions in pension capital move through the economy, often without input from the people whose futures are invested.
What would it look like if the people whose retirements are on the line had a real voice in how that capital is deployed?
What would it look like if the people whose retirements are on the line had a real voice in how that capital is deployed?
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January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Knowing who to engage, who influences whom, and how to move together is often what separates momentum from stalled progress.
Our Investing in Our Future Guide breaks this down in Part 4: www.climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-ou...
Our Investing in Our Future Guide breaks this down in Part 4: www.climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-ou...
January 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Knowing who to engage, who influences whom, and how to move together is often what separates momentum from stalled progress.
Our Investing in Our Future Guide breaks this down in Part 4: www.climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-ou...
Our Investing in Our Future Guide breaks this down in Part 4: www.climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-ou...
Through coalition building and strategic engagement with financial leaders, we help trustees and workers connect fiduciary duty to the urgent reality of climate risk
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Through coalition building and strategic engagement with financial leaders, we help trustees and workers connect fiduciary duty to the urgent reality of climate risk
Behind every policy win or progress point are people working together to make things happen.
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Behind every policy win or progress point are people working together to make things happen.
Our work is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves a voice in shaping the financial systems that influence our planet and future. Public employees have fought hard to protect their pensions. Now, they can use these same funds to push for climate solutions and long-term economic resilience.
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Our work is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves a voice in shaping the financial systems that influence our planet and future. Public employees have fought hard to protect their pensions. Now, they can use these same funds to push for climate solutions and long-term economic resilience.
As climate change reshapes markets and communities, the way public pensions approach risk plays a critical role in protecting retirement security.
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 AM
As climate change reshapes markets and communities, the way public pensions approach risk plays a critical role in protecting retirement security.
Change moves through relationships.
Behind every policy shift or funding decision is a network of people building trust, sharing strategy, and understanding where power actually sits.
Behind every policy shift or funding decision is a network of people building trust, sharing strategy, and understanding where power actually sits.
December 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Change moves through relationships.
Behind every policy shift or funding decision is a network of people building trust, sharing strategy, and understanding where power actually sits.
Behind every policy shift or funding decision is a network of people building trust, sharing strategy, and understanding where power actually sits.
At Climate Finance Action, we work alongside local partners to turn public capital into a tool for resilience. That means opening up complex financial systems, creating pathways for stakeholder voice, and equipping people with tools to influence how public pension funds respond to climate risk.
December 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
At Climate Finance Action, we work alongside local partners to turn public capital into a tool for resilience. That means opening up complex financial systems, creating pathways for stakeholder voice, and equipping people with tools to influence how public pension funds respond to climate risk.
If you believe climate solutions should strengthen communities and protect long-term public wealth, there are ways to get involved.
Donate: climatefinanceaction.org/donate
Explore our guide: climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-our-future-guide
Donate: climatefinanceaction.org/donate
Explore our guide: climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-our-future-guide
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you believe climate solutions should strengthen communities and protect long-term public wealth, there are ways to get involved.
Donate: climatefinanceaction.org/donate
Explore our guide: climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-our-future-guide
Donate: climatefinanceaction.org/donate
Explore our guide: climatefinanceaction.org/invest-in-our-future-guide
When funds collaborate through engagement, voting, and shared standards, they shift the system and build long-term stability.
This is what breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma looks like in practice.
This is what breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma looks like in practice.
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
When funds collaborate through engagement, voting, and shared standards, they shift the system and build long-term stability.
This is what breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma looks like in practice.
This is what breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma looks like in practice.