Created by investors, for investors, we have helped shape the climate investment landscape across Australia and New Zealand for more than two decades — empowering the region’s largest funds to embed climate into core investment decisions and real-world action.
Today, IGCC represents investors with almost $5 trillion in assets under management across Australia and New Zealand.
Our members include the nations’ largest superannuation and retail funds, specialist investors and advisory groups. Together, their beneficiaries represent over 15.8 million Australians and millions more New Zealanders.
20 Years of Climate Investment Leadership
IGCC was born in 2005 from the foresight of an early group of visionary investors — including VicSuper, Catholic Super, AMP Capital, BT Financial Group and others — who recognised that climate change posed not just an environmental challenge, but a material financial risk. Their leadership turned foresight into action.
Among them were Bob Welsh (VicSuper), Frank Pegan (Catholic Super) and Dr Ian Woods (AMP Capital), whose vision and collaboration conceptualised and established IGCC in 2005.
🎥 Watch the film: IGCC at 20 – Shaping the Climate Investment Landscape Across Australia and New Zealand
Featuring reflections from the past CEOs and Chairs who helped shape IGCC’s evolution: Jo Saleeba • Nathan Fabian • Emma Herd • Stephen Dunne • Dr Ian Woods • Rebecca Mikula-Wright
From Early Advocacy to Systemic Influence
Over 20 years, IGCC has become the trusted voice translating climate risk into financial language — and investor action.
Through shifting political and market cycles, IGCC maintained a steady, evidence-based message: that climate change is a material financial risk and opportunity.
That persistence helped move the issue from the margins of ESG discussions to the centre of investment, regulation and policy.
IGCC’s work with investors, policymakers and regulators has shaped the frameworks that make credible climate action possible — from mandatory disclosure and net zero sector planning, to investor stewardship and engagement.
By staying disciplined, IGCC has embedded climate in how the financial system understands and manages risk.
Influence Beyond Borders
As climate risk became a global financial issue, IGCC’s reach extended well beyond Australia and New Zealand, to align investor action across markets.
In Asia
IGCC established the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) in 2015 to strengthen investor collaboration and policy engagement across Asia. Today, AIGCC plays a pivotal role in connecting regional investors with global capital and corporate action on net zero.
Through Global Coalitions, Partners & Initiatives
We collaborate with partners, and founded global initiatives, that deliver real-world outcomes through policy design, investor coordination and cross-border partnerships.
This international leadership has reinforced IGCC’s standing at home — positioning Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific as central to the world’s decarbonisation effort, and as a region rich in opportunity for climate-aligned investment.
A Platform for What Comes Next
As climate change accelerates from long-term risk to immediate market reality, IGCC’s role — connecting investors, policymakers and regulators — has never been more critical. The systems that investors helped build now need to deliver at scale.
IGCC’s focus remains clear: to ensure capital, policy and practice move in step — enabling investors to manage risk, capture opportunity and finance the transition to a net zero, climate-resilient economy.
Before the end of the year, IGCC will release its new five-year strategy, setting the direction for this next phase of work.
We acknowledge and thank the many staff, members, stakeholders and partners whose commitment and collaboration have shaped IGCC’s work over the past 20 years.
IGCC celebrates its 20th anniversary at its 2025 Annual Summit with CEOs, past and present, and Chair: L-R: Jo Saleeba, Nathan Fabian, Rebecca Mikula-Wright, Stephen Dunne, Emma Herd.