Hollywood actors to SAG retirement fund: drop fossil fuels!

Across North America, working people are under attack – from extreme weather disasters to financial systems still tied to climate-destroying industries.

This is clear in Hollywood, where even as actors, writers, and crew members won fair wages and safe working conditions, their retirement fund is quietly investing millions in the fossil fuel industry. Right now, at least $100 million of the SAG-Producers Pension Plan is invested in fossil fuel companies — the same corporations driving climate collapse.

That’s why earlier this month, Stand supported the launch of the Retire Big Oil campaign in coordination with more than 500 actors, including Jane Fonda, Don Cheadle, Rosario Dawson, and Mark Ruffalo, who are speaking out to demand divestment and push for a climate-safe pension plan.

Big Oil is in 99% of retirement plans, and they’ve been losing us all a lot of money. Getting out of fossil fuels is one of the most impactful climate actions we can take.

From Bonn to Belém: Amazonian Indigenous voices leading the way to COP30

As the world races toward the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil in November, Indigenous Peoples from across the Amazon Basin are stepping forward with a powerful message: there can be no climate justice without Indigenous rights.

At the June Climate Meetings in Bonn (SB62), Amazonian leaders brought a unified political mandate shaped in the forests of Brazil to the halls of international diplomacy.

The meetings gather governments and civil society prior to every global climate summit, serving as a crucial space to lay the groundwork for upcoming negotiations. This year, Amazonian Indigenous leaders arrived not just to participate, but to lead — bringing with them a political mandate to ensure their priorities are not only heard, but acted upon.

Stand’s team worked closely with Indigenous partners to develop the political declaration and provided technical support during the negotiations in Bonn, where these priorities were present in every space we could reach.

Amazon emissions continue to climb, despite growing calls from customers to take stronger action on climate

Amazon’s latest sustainability report dropped a couple of weeks ago, and it confirms the unfortunate news that the company has continued to increase its direct emissions — undermining the climate pledge it made six years ago, and disappointing the overwhelming majority of Amazon Prime customers that we know want to see progress.

How do we know this? Ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day event earlier this month, Stand released the results of a national tracking poll that we commissioned from Morning Consult, which found that an overwhelming 80% of the company’s loyal customer base wants Amazon to take stronger action to cut emissions from its delivery and transportation operations – and 75% of Prime members say they would accept slower shipping in exchange for reduced emissions, signaling a profound shift in customer priorities.

Join the tens of thousands of voices demanding that Amazon do better by signing the letter below calling on the company’s leadership to commit to zero-emission deliveries by 2030. Together, we have the power to move Amazon.