Market: Australia

Submission: Victorian Draft Adaptation Action Plans 2027-31

Submission | Kate Simmonds | 15 July 2026

IGCC strongly supports Victoria’s use of sector-based adaptation planning. For investors, these Plans help provide confidence that regions will maintain economic resilience and therefore are a safe place for investment. While IGCC is broadly supportive of the actions identified, we encourage the Victorian Government to strengthen the Plans by improving the specificity and accountability of actions, increasing focus on adaptation finance, prioritising regulation and planning reform, and developing longer-term adaptation pathways beyond 2031.

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AustraliaBuildings & InfrasctructureEnergyPhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working GroupTransport

Submission: Australian Energy Regulator Network Resilience Guidelines

Submission | Kate Simmonds | 9 July 2026

IGCC supports the AER’s efforts to provide greater clarity on resilience expenditure. However, the consultation paper focuses primarily on process, rather than strategic issues shaping network resilience. IGCC encourages the AER to strengthen its broader approach to network resilience by closing gaps in climate science and risk assessment, improving system-level coordination, standardising financial assessment of resilience, considering community vulnerability, supporting flexible adaptation pathways, and increasing transparency of decision-making.

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AustraliaBuildings & InfrasctructureEnergyPhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group

IGCC August Member Briefing

Member Meeting | In person in Sydney & Online via Zoom | 12 August 2026 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Timezone: Australia/Sydney
Baselines and Bottom Lines: Preparing for the Safeguard Mechanism Review
AustraliaDecarbonising the EconomyPolicy & Advocacy

Media Release: Improvements to CGT Tax Package Welcomed, but Renewables Pipeline Remains at Risk

2 July 2026

Removing retrospectivity is a step in the right direction, but the legislation still moves the goal posts.
AustraliaPolicy & Advocacy

Submission: One barrier might come down, but superannuation performance test reforms won’t unlock climate investment on their own

Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 19 June 2026

Changing the superannuation performance test is not the single ‘silver bullet’ solution – in and of itself, reform of the performance test may remove a barrier to investment in some asset classes for some investors, but it will not act as an incentive for more investment. IGCC urges the government to consider any proposed changes to the performance test in the context of all other policy changes available to it that could, or seek to, influence investment in net zero.

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AustraliaDecarbonising the EconomyEnergyNet Zero Investment FrameworkPolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group

State of Net Zero Investment 2026

Report | Investor Group on Climate Change | 18 June 2026

The market’s most insightful report on how institutional investors are looking at climate risks and opportunities.

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AustraliaClimate Solutions & TechCorporate EngagementDecarbonising the EconomyEnergyInvestor PracticePhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & Advocacy

Submission on methane accounting standards under NGERS legislation

13 May 2026

Investors rely on reported emissions data to provide an accurate picture of companies’ emissions and transition risk, to assess current and prospective investments as well as the risk to asset value.
AustraliaCorporate EngagementCorporate Engagement Working GroupDecarbonising the EconomyEnergy Transition Working GroupGovernance & DisclosureMiningPolicy & Advocacy

Budget Risks Investment in Clean Energy and Industry

12 May 2026

The budget tabled by the Treasurer tonight is full of mixed messages.
AustraliaPolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group