Ben Cushing
@bmcushing
Director of the @SierraClub's Sustainable Finance Campaign (posts are my own) | 🦋➡️ http://bmcushing.bsky.social
📣👋 New paper from @SierraClub out today — a long time in the making. It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios. 👉 Full paper: sierraclub.org/systemic-clima…

We can't afford to ignore the threat that the climate crisis poses to the economy and long-term investments. We applaud the Sierra Club Foundation for leading by example by moving its assets from BlackRock to more responsible asset managers. sierraclub.org/press-releases…
Sierra Club Foundation to terminate BlackRock due to ESG pullback pionline.com/endowments-and… via @pensionsnews
From @bradlander after learning of Cuomo’s concession: “…he showed himself to be the bitter, abusive, corrupt, selfish form of politics that we’re done with – Andrew Cuomo is in the past, he is not the present or future of New York City. Good fucking riddance.”
Congratulations, @ZohranKMamdani! Your dedication to an affordable, welcoming, and safe New York City where working families can have a shot has inspired people across the city. Billionaires and lobbyists poured millions against you and our public finance system. And you won.
BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes to Zohran Mamdani in NYC Democratic Primary for Mayor
Oregon lawmakers just passed a first-of-its-kind bill directing the @OregonTreasury & the state pension fund PERS to address how climate change threatens public workers' retirement savings. #ORpol #ORleg sierraclub.org/press-releases…
Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand. Our president knows nothing about history. And history tells us…
The Long Term Will Be Decided Now: Why #ClimateRisk Demands System-Level Action from Investors This paper makes the case that investors must treat climate change not just as a risk to individual companies. Author: Ben Cushing Read More: spkl.io/6015fhkqU #AcademicTwitter
Did we stop talking as much about the Carbon Bubble because stranded assets are no longer an economic threat? No, we've just grown aware that risks to climate-brittle assets — indeed the entire economy — are vastly larger. Exploration of meaning to ESG: sierraclub.org/press-releases…
Climate costs are mounting & will accelerate if emissions aren’t cut. By 2050, we could see $38T/year in losses & a 40% drop in global stock values—devastating millions of retirement funds. Yet investors still treat it only as a risk to individual firms’ profits:…
I wrote about how the climate crisis is already draining people’s bank accounts in the U.S., which paid $1 trillion in climate-related damages last year, and where home insurance premiums have risen by 40% in the last 6 years
Big win for Oregon! The Climate Resilience Investment Act (HB 2081A) just passed. This legislation means we are directing investments toward clean energy, clean water, and clean air projects that will pay off. #Orleg #ORpolitics #Oregon #ClimateResilience #CleanEnergy
Oregon lawmakers just passed a first-of-its-kind bill directing the @OregonTreasury & the state pension fund PERS to address how climate change threatens public workers' retirement savings. #ORpol #ORleg sierraclub.org/press-releases…
The @SierraClub applauds Oregon lawmakers for passing a 👏 first-of-its-kind 👏 bill directing the @OregonTreasury & the state pension fund PERS to address how climate change threatens public workers' retirement savings. #ORpol #ORleg sierraclub.org/press-releases…
BREAKING! The annual #BankingOnClimateChaos reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $7.9 TRILLION since 2016. See how your bank is using your money at bankingonclimatechaos.org. #DefundClimateChaos #BOCC
Mayoral candidate Brad Lander was cuffed and detained by ICE agents after asking to see a warrant for people who were detained after an immigration hearing. Video from the city comptroller’s press secretary @chloecbristow. She says he’s still being held in 26 Federal Plaza.