Your retirement plan emits more GHGs than your buildings
20–30×
every operational source combined. Not just buildings. Every source.
AT A GLANCE
Trellis published the clearest playbook yet on fossil-free retirement.
It assumes you already know your plan’s carbon number, fund by fund. Most sustainability teams don’t.
Nobody trusts a carbon number they can’t check
AT A GLANCE
Before anyone puts a financed-emissions figure in front of a plan committee, they want to see how it was calculated. Fair enough.
Every data source
Every assumption
Where we're estimating
Visitors to the rebuilt Investature.com kept searching for our methodology. So we published it.
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AT A GLANCE
2.9 t
a large bank, per $10,000 on deposit, per year
0.6 t
a fossil-free bank, same deposit
Moving a portion of your savings is free and takes about two hours.
We partnered with Bank.Green to advance a shared mission: aligning financial practice with stated values.
Source: Project Drawdown and Topo Finance
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WHERE WE’LL BE
Climate Week New York
September 18–27 · NYCAASHE Conference
October 4–6 · BaltimoreAn Evening with Ceres
October 26 · Boston
Worth 20 minutes on the commute:
“The Zombie Money in Your Retirement Plan” →
TOGETHER, WE’RE BUILDING A MOVEMENT
The industry is converging on how to count financed emissions. What we do with the count is still ours to decide.
You already have the hardest part: a mandate to cut emissions. The retirement plan is one of the few levers that costs nothing to pull. Let’s find out what yours is worth.
Cheers,
Scott, Jess, Punj, Suzanne + Vanessa
Investature