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Want to use your power as an employee to move your company forward on climate policy? We can help! Introducing the launch of our brand new toolkit – Climate Action at Work: A Guide for Employee Advocates. 💥 Our toolkit outlines key steps like researching your company’s positions on climate policy, ways to engage your co-workers, which questions to ask regarding trade association memberships and climate policy advocacy underway, and how to start advocating for action. You’ll learn how to leverage your influence for climate, and how to become a super-connector on the issue. Most important of all, this was developed by employees, based on their real-world experiences of advocating for climate in their workplaces. We invite you to share this with your fellow employees and get started in advocating for stronger climate policy action today. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gXM6YqBu

🚨 NEW briefing from InfluenceMap shows the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable align with their most oppositional members in supporting legal action against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Both of these trade association's positions reflect 2 of its fossil fuel members (ConocoPhillips & ExxonMobil). Why are the rest of their members accepting and paying for that? 👀 Looking at you Alphabet Inc., Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Walmart. 🔗 Full briefing here: https://lnkd.in/gpDJXfnc

Thanks to Galen Hall for joining us for a ClimateVoices interview today! "Finally, employees need to recognize that their companies’ political stances aren’t set in stone. There’s a perception that corporations are perfectly rational, self-interested planners who know exactly what benefits they want to exact from governments. That’s not true. Corporate policy officers rely on cultural heuristics just like everyone else, and they’re just as vulnerable to social signaling. This means their minds can be changed. Employees can shape the internal culture at a company and redefine the “common sense” position on climate policy."

In this issue of #ClimateVoices, I'm pleased to speak with Galen Hall, a social scientist who researches climate and energy politics. After graduating in 2020 with a degree in physics from Brown University, he worked in the Brown University Climate and Development Lab, leading several studies on public counter-movements against greenhouse gas mitigation policies as well as state-level interest group politics. As a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Galen is continuing this line of research by leveraging big data to understand the dynamics of political influence across the United States.

Let's gather, learn and drive change together. Thursday is Earth Gives monthly Community Commons: Change-making women session with none other than Deborah McNamara with ClimateVoice. It's a casual gathering and conversation with women who share their stories and the change they've advanced. Whether you work in #sustainability #climate or any other effort that has you considering courage, community and even systems change, join us. See the link below.

Can't wait. A woman who invites bold courageous use of our voices is on tap for our July Community Commons: Change-making women session. Register today for a great hour of insight, connection and inspiration for the change you seek to bring to the world. https://bit.ly/3LdllTF @ClimateVoice #Courage #changemaking #community

🎉 Help us celebrate 1K LEAD signatories! 🥳 Last week we reached a significant milestone – 1,000 sustainability professionals have signed our LEAD Statement, ready to use their voice to advocate for climate policy action. If you are one of the signers – we thank you for signing on, and for committing to advocate for climate policy at work. We are excited to continue to grow this dynamic LEAD community, and also turn our focus to further activating sustainability professionals to engage their companies on leaving obstructing trade associations and taking proactive leadership in advocating for climate policy solutions and progress. To reach the next 1,000 individuals we need your help! By sharing this news you can remind others of the importance in taking a stand for climate leadership that translates to meaningful policy action. Investing in ClimateVoice with a donation will help us further activate and continue to grow the impact of this powerful group to include thousands of sustainability leaders.  ➡ https://lnkd.in/eUNvhnVd 🔗 The LEAD Statement: weleadonclimatepolicy.org

U.S. Chamber of Commerce members: How much of every $1 in dues that you invest goes to undermining climate policy and enabling fossil fuel companies? https://lnkd.in/gxxTMHUj U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Allstate Delta Air Lines FedEx Ford Motor Company IBM Meta Microsoft Pfizer Ryder System, Inc.

Truly such a career highlight to be interviewed by Bill Weihl and ClimateVoice, an organization that Soapbox Project has been looking up to pretty much since we first started! I'm writing this post en route to Drew Wilkinson & Holly Alpine (née Beale)'s spicy talk on Microsoft using AI to accelerate oil & gas extraction. PLUS I got to spend the earlier part of this week on a panel with them and Van Riker talking about how when employees speak up, COMPANIES LISTEN. It's all about finding the levers for change. Finding your people. Persisting. Every job is a climate job, and each of us has a voice we can use to protect our planet!!

The power of collective action can't be overstated when it comes to tackling #climatechange, according to Bill Weihl, Founder and chief strategic adviser of ClimateVoice. By working together, businesses can create a market demand for #cleanenergy and drive policy changes that benefit the planet. Key areas that need attention include transportation, buildings, and industry. To make a real difference, companies must advocate for climate policies and work together. Individuals can also play a role by supporting organizations that prioritize #sustainability. By pushing for policy changes, we can make a seamless transition to a low-carbon economy possible.