Topic: Energy

Encompassing fossil fuels, renewables, other sources and storage.

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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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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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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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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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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Our $60bn Public Capital System and Climate

10 December 2025

Modernising Australia’s Specialist Investment Vehicles could complement and stimulate private investment into the country’s renewable energy system, future climate solutions, and climate resilience.

Submission: Good governance for an evolving electricity system – NEM Review

23 September 2025

Investors support the dual intentions of the NEM Review, which is to propose solutions to challenges that hinder investment in the National Electricity Market (NEM), and to deliver electricity system services more efficiently.

Submission: Good governance for an evolving electricity system – NEM Review

Submission | Bethany Richards | 17 September 2025

Investors support the dual intentions of the NEM Review, which is to propose solutions to challenges that hinder investment in the National Electricity Market (NEM), and to deliver electricity system services more efficiently.

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Submission: Gas Market Reforms must prioritise future-proofed export industries and domestic consumers

19 August 2025

The Gas Market Review is an opportunity for government to bed down the decarbonisation agenda in key policies, prioritising decarbonisation of Australian exports and providing domestic consumers lower-cost gas, as renewable alternatives are being developed at scale.