Fossil Free Funds

Introducing: Fossil Free Funds

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Invest your values

Fossil fuel investments carry real financial risks. Over the past years, a growing divestment movement of institutional and individual investors representing more than $6tn in assets under management have responded to this climate risk by divesting all or some of their fossil fuel investments.

Fossil Free Funds analyzes the climate impact of thousands of U.S. mutual funds and ETFs and shows you if your money is being invested in fossil fuel companies, or companies with high carbon footprints. We make it easy to know what you own, so you can align your investments with your values.

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How to make your investments align with your values

Search for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by name, ticker, or asset manager. Our database covers 3,000 stock funds available in the U.S.

See your results. For each fund, we track fossil fuel investments, carbon footprints, and clean energy investments.

Look for aligned options. Sort and compare to find funds that fit your investing needs.

Talk to your financial advisor or retirement plan manager about fossil free investing.

Find sustainably-invested mutual funds and ETFs

See top-scoring funds

Search for funds from your 401(k), retirement plan, or personal portfolio

Index funds

Passive investing, mostly based on indexes from S&P, Russell/FTSE, and MSCI, has grown tremendously in recent years. But when you put your money on autopilot, you may run a higher risk of investing in companies that are not aligned with your values. Below are the fossil fuel grades for 10 common index funds.

S&P 500

IVV - iShares Core S&P 500 ETF More

Russell 1000

IWB - iShares Russell 1000 ETF More

Russell 2000

IWM - iShares Russell 2000 ETF More

Russell 3000

IWV - iShares Russell 3000 ETF More

S&P 100

OEF - iShares S&P 100 ETF More

Russell Top 200

IWL - iShares Russell Top 200 ETF More

MSCI ACWI

ACWI - iShares MSCI ACWI ETF More

MSCI EAFE

EFA - iShares MSCI EAFE ETF More

MSCI Emerging Markets

EEM - iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF More

MSCI ACWI ex U.S.

ACWX - iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF More

More funds

If you care about climate change, your money can help shrink your carbon footprint... Now there is a tool, the website Fossil Free Funds, that helps pinpoint funds and E.T.F.s focused on companies with smaller carbon footprints.
Funds That Can Put Your Investments on a Low-Carbon Diet

Read more about us in:

The Guardian - The carbon bubble: why investors can no longer ignore climate risks

Bloomberg BNA - GE, Microsoft Urged to Offer Fossil-Fuel-Free 401(k)s

FastCompany - How To Convince Your Employer To Divest Your 401(k) From Fossil Fuels

ThinkProgress - There’s Now A Way To Find Out How Much Of Your Retirement Is Invested In Fossil Fuels

Fund managers have trillions of dollars invested the stocks of fossil fuel companies

Major asset managers handle the retirement savings of millions of Americans. Their mission is to help people save for the future - but they're directing trillions of dollars of capital to the carbon polluters maintaining and expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens our future.

Are your savings invested with one of these financial giants? Find out just how much they have invested in the top owners of carbon reserves, the largest coal-fired utilities, and other fossil fuel companies. Share to spread the word: business as usual is killing the climate.

100 funds analyzed

6% fossil fuel exposure

$262 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

312 funds analyzed

6% fossil fuel exposure

$104 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

297 funds analyzed

5% fossil fuel exposure

$84 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

59 funds analyzed

6% fossil fuel exposure

$23 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

20 funds analyzed

6% fossil fuel exposure

$95 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

71 funds analyzed

4% fossil fuel exposure

$23 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

101 funds analyzed

9% fossil fuel exposure

$62 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

207 funds analyzed

5% fossil fuel exposure

$21 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

121 funds analyzed

8% fossil fuel exposure

$24 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

57 funds analyzed

6% fossil fuel exposure

$7 BILLION in fossil fuel stocks

Recent blog posts

Updating the Invest Your Values rating methodologies

Jan 21, 2021

Periodically, we review the Invest Your Values rating methodologies and adjust how we're assigning the A, B, C, D, and F letter grades. As the market changes, the distribution of exposure to companies changes, and the distribution of funds across grade groups can get skewed. By regularly measuring the distribution of results and adjusting the grade assignments, we aim to keep everything up to date.

Defining Sustainable Investments

Nov 12, 2020

We’ve updated Fossil Free Funds and the other Invest Your Values tools to use a more selective definition of “sustainability mandate”, applying it only to funds that have an intentional focus on environmental and/or social issues when choosing what companies to hold in the portfolio.

The world’s largest asset managers have failed to prevent the global forest fire crisis

Sep 15, 2020

A guest post from Jeff Conant, Senior International Forest Program Managers at Friends of the Earth U.S. A new report from Friends of the Earth U.S. finds that the largest asset managers are undermining efforts by consumer brands and agribusiness companies to halt deforestation.

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Tracking trillions in fossil fuel investments

Fossil Free Funds is a search platform that looks at the climate impact of popular mutual funds and shows you if your money is being invested in fossil fuel companies, or companies with high carbon footprints.

Investing in coal companies, oil/gas producers, and coal-fired utilities isn’t just a moral question. Fossil fuel investments carry real financial risks. When emissions are constrained, fossil fuel companies will have their carbon assets stranded. Over the past years, a growing divestment movement of institutional and individual investors representing more than $6tn in assets under management have responded to this risk by divesting all or some of their fossil fuel investments.

Fossil Free Funds empowers you to know exactly what you own, to see if your savings are invested in dirty energy sources, and to find investment options that support a cleaner, greener future.

Search for mutual funds and see if they’re invested in fossil fuel companies. If they are, you can use our database to find comparable options that meet your specific needs.

Find sustainably-invested mutual funds and ETFs

See top-scoring funds

Search for funds from your 401(k), retirement plan, or personal portfolio

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