Act
✨✨ Enter your details to take the challenge of checking your Kiwisaver and managed funds for investments in fossil fuels. See instructions below. ✨✨
Climate Club is a registered charitable trust; we promise we won’t spam you! All data is collected and stored in accordance with our privacy policy.
Are your investments supporting fossil fuels?
If they are, move them to ethically-aligned investments!!
This is one of the top-5 high-impact climate actions you can take!
Over our working lives, we save and invest our hard-earned dollars. Once they are invested, most of the time we don’t think about our KiwiSaver funds and investments. And while we aren’t watching, our dollars are secretly smoking. Well, not really smoking. But they are causing emissions and quite a lot of it.
Turns out emissions from our investments contribute to over 25% of the average emissions per person in New Zealand! The rest of our emissions come from everything else in our lives – travel, food, products, entertainment, electricity. But over 25% of our emissions comes from something that we don’t even look at on most days.
75% of Kiwis want their investments to reflect their values. A 10-min check can help each of us review our investments and perhaps make the choice to move to cleaner and more ethically aligned investments. Non-profit organisations such as Mindful Money can help us discover if our money is invested ethically – and if it’s not – where and how to move it.
”I started Mindful Money because I want to transform the way we think about money. It shouldn’t be just risk and returns. We need investors to understand and act on the impacts – how money has consequences for people, our climate and our environment.”, says Barry Coates, Co-founder and CEO of Mindful Money
Make it social
Here’s how to take the Climate Club Challenge
- Sign up for the challenge at the top of this page.
- Log into your Kiwisaver and investment accounts. Note down the fund with the highest investment.
- Head over to the Mindful Money fund checker tool and look up that fund.
- From the tool, note down what percentage of your fund is invested in Fossil Fuels.
- If it is less than 0.01%, post this text to your Instagram Story: “I took the Climate Club Challenge. And it was 💚 for me!”
- If it is more than 0.01%, post this text to your Instagram Story: “I took the Climate Club Challenge. And it was 🖤 for me!”
- Make sure you tag us @ClimateClubNZ
- You will then be added to the Giveaway draw.
- But wait! If you go to our Instagram announcement post and challenge your friends to take the challenge, your name will go into the draw twice. You can do this by tagging your friends in the comments section.
The Giveaway Winner will get $500 to invest in their Kiwisaver or managed funds.
Make it structural
Talk to your school, your club, your employer and your neighbours!
Moving your money away from fossil fuels is a powerful first step that individuals can take. When enough of us do it, system change is not far behind. We can then collectively move our money towards renewable energy. Now we are not just talking about ethically aligned investing. We are talking about an energy independent New Zealand and climate change mitigation.
Raise awareness with whoever you can about the huge hidden emissions from our investments.
Support demands for more transparent reporting of emissions as well as climate mitigations by companies.
We have collective power through our money and this is one of the most powerful, direct climate actions most of us can take. And it doesn’t take much at all.