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Aotearoa New Zealand State of Net Zero Investment – 2026
Report | IGCC, Mindful Money and the Centre for Sustainable Finance. | 15th Oct. 2026
Aotearoa New Zealand’s institutional investors overwhelmingly recognise climate risk as a material factor for their decisions.
Submission: Safeguard Mechanism reforms for industrial transformations
Submission | Bethany Richards, Francesca Muskovic | 14 October 2026
The Safeguard Mechanism (SGM) works well in delivering abatement while keeping compliance costs low, but it does little to support or incentivise on-site abatement and the transition to resilient and competitive low-carbon industries. The review of the SGM presents an opportunity to accelerate Australia’s energy transition, strengthen energy resilience and support industrial competitiveness and development.
Submission: Improving the efficiency of Australia’s climate-related financial disclosures
Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 02 October 2026
IGCC welcomes government’s consideration of targeted measures to improve the efficiency of Australia’s climate-related financial disclosures regime without compromising the integrity, comparability and usefulness of disclosures. Climate change is a systemic risk to the economy and presents both financial risks and opportunities for investors’ portfolios. Managing climate risk requires good data on material impacts, consistently reported to agreed and comparable standards and a clear articulation of the strategic steps being taken in response.
Submission: IGCC responds to draft climate reporting roadmap for Aotearoa New Zealand
Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 30 September 2026
IGCC welcomes and broadly supports the strategic direction and principles outlined in the External Reporting Board’s (XRB) draft roadmap. Climate-related disclosures aim to support the allocation of capital towards activities that are consistent with a transition to a low-emissions, climate-resilient future. By publicly reporting on their climate-related risks and opportunities, investors and other entities can demonstrate how they are considering them throughout their business models.Submission: Fossil methane is a near-term abatement opportunity
Submission | Anna Hancock | 7 August 2026
Our submission to the Climate Change Authority’s consultation on fossil methane. Top points: The Government should strengthen methane disclosure so thatmethane’s near-term potency is made explicit, and the Safeguard Mechanism Review should lead to reforms that support more
and earlier on-site abatement.
Expanding the Investible Market for Adaptation
Guide | Fergus Pitt | 19 August 2026
How institutional investors can create value by prioritising climate resilience.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.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.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.
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.