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Older resources are in our archives of Publications prior to June 2021, Submissions prior to December 2022, Policy Briefings Prior to December 2022 (Members only).

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

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

Just Adaptation: An Introduction for Institutional Investors

Report | Dr Kate Simmonds | 10/6/2026

Our newest resource helps investors understand and respond to the social dimensions of climate adaptation.

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Physical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group

Resilient Infrastructure: Physical Climate Risk Assessments for Defensible Decision‑Making

Guide | Timothy Grech and Kate Simmonds | 15 May 2026

Practical guidance for investors, companies and service providers supporting defensible decision-making and real-world resilience outcomes.
The guide defines what a defensible physical climate risk assessment looks like in practice and sets out a clear, consistent approach to improve transparency, comparability, and technical rigour.

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Buildings & InfrasctructureInvestor PracticePhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResilienceReal Assets Subworking Group

Submission on methane accounting standards under NGERS legislation

Submission | Anna Hancock, Bethany Richards, Dani Siew, Francesca Muskovic | 8 May 2026

Methane emissions are generally under-reported and IGCC strongly supports more accurate accounting and reporting of methane emissions as essential to give greater clarity to investors. This will assist in making alternative, low to zero emissions investments more attractive, enabling more finance to be deployed towards prospective green industries.   IGCC supports many of the changes contemplated in this consultation draft and provides some further suggestions to strengthen NGER scheme operation that will in turn support climate-aligned innovation and investment.

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Submission: More work needed on the foreign resident capital gains tax regime for renewables

Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 24 April 2026

IGCC respects the Government’s intentions to strengthen and provide clarity to the foreign resident CGT regime. However, the draft legislation contains a number of elements that will chill much-needed investment in renewable energy and create undue sovereign risk. More analysis of the economic impact of the proposed changes is required to establish a level playing field for all investors and appropriate transition arrangements that avoid jeopardising Australia’s energy transition.

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

Submission: CCA Evidence Platform to Support Investors on Progress to Net Zero

Submission | Bethany Richards (IGCC), Dr Kate Simmonds (IGCC), Nayanisha Samarakoon (RIAA) and Tori Huggins (RIAA). | 30 April 2026

While the government’s sector decarbonisation plans and National Adaptation Plan and National Climate Risk Assessment are positive steps towards a resilient, net-zero economy, they have been less useful in identifying how much and when climate-aligned investment is required. These documents lack short- and medium-term decarbonisation and adaptation goals and milestones, and don’t provide investment roadmaps across key sectors.

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AustraliaDecarbonising the EconomyEnergy Transition Working GroupGovernance & DisclosureInvestor PracticePhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group

Climate Change and Natural Hazards SEPP: Submission to NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure

Submission | Kate Simmonds | 16 March 2026

Investors are strongly supportive of introducing an overarching climate risk clause in the Climate Change and Natural Hazards State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) and welcomes the NSW Government’s intention to integrate climate resilience into the planning system in a more consistent and systematic manner.   Investors are broadly supportive of the Draft Climate Scenario Guidelines, which address a clear need for consistency in physical climate risk assessments.

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AustraliaPhysical Risk, Adaptation & ResiliencePolicy & AdvocacyPolicy & Advocacy Working Group