DIVEST FROM FUNDS SUPPORTING FOSSIL FUELS AT YOUR WORKPLACE.

This means shifting your company’s investments, like where they bank and where company retirement or pension accounts are placed, to ‘fossil-free’ funds—those that exclude investments in companies involved in the extraction, refinement, or distribution of coal, oil, and methane (natural gas).

This means your organization’s bank, investments, retirement plans, insurance, and other workplace finances are aligned with climate solutions, not pollution. Oftentimes, a company’s largest source of emissions is its finances.

A huge lever is your employer’s pension or retirement plan—here’s how to push your workplace to divest. Advocate to your employer that you and your colleagues want at least one climate-friendly retirement option available to employees (even better: you want it to be the default option).

Is your work bank or credit card company one of the dirty ones? Switch to a green bank at work! The Exponential Roadmap Initiative has a guide for companies that want to reduce the emissions from company cash holdings.

Climate action at work is best done together. Start by finding at least one buddy who’s interested in helping make your organization greener. Maybe have lunch together once a week or start a sustainability group chat. Grow your group over time to keep taking high-impact action at work. Or, if there already is one, get involved with your organization’s employee-led green team and make sure they’re focused on high-impact climate actions to halve emissions before 2030.