Money

Help your organisation invest in a cleaner future

The financial institutions your company invests in and banks with have a much bigger impact on climate change than you might realise.

Help your workplace switch to an ethical retirement fund and investments.

You may have already personally switched to an ethical bank or retirement fund, and encouraging your employer to do the same is a way to increase your impact even more.

Financial institutions hold immense power when it comes to funding fossil fuel projects like coal mines. Think about it — if a mine can't get funding, it can't go ahead. So, entrusting your company's money to banks and funds who promise not to fund these activities is hugely impactful. You can encourage your company to switch its default superannuation fund and investments to ethical institutions and achieve benefits for the planet, the business, yourself and future generations.

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Investments Playbooks

Our FREE Playbooks are designed to guide you through all the steps required to help your employer switch the company's default super fund to an ethical one. From arming you with the knowledge you can use to persuade key stakeholders, to practical actions you’ll need to take, it contains everything you need to know.

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Access Playbooks

Tool: superannuation pulse check (Australia)

This resource includes a list of questions and thought starters to help you think about your company’s current default super fund, the size of your collective investment and impact and what that money is really funding.

How to respond to objections on fossil free retirement funds

Shifting your company’s default employee retirement fund to a fossil fuel-free option can be one of the highest-impact, lowest-effort climate actions available. But even with the facts and performance data on your side, you’ll likely encounter some pushback. This resource provides a set of common objections and suggested responses to help you navigate these conversations.

Case study: How one employee got a climate-friendly option added to her company’s 401(k)

When Camille Smith realised that her company's default 401(k) portfolio (essentially, the American version of a superannuation fund) was lacking in environmentally conscious fund options, she decided to do something about it. Here's how her persistence paid off in making climate-friendly investing available to everyone at her company.

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