Topic: Physical Risk, Adaptation & Resilience
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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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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9 June 2026
Our newest resource helps investors understand and respond to the social dimensions of climate adaptation.
18 May 2026
Resilient Infrastructure: Physical Climate Risk Assessments for Defensible Decision‑Making provides practical guidance for investors, companies and service providers to assess physical climate risks in a way that supports defensible decision-making and real-world resilience outcomes.
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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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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4 May 2026
The Investor Group for Climate Change (IGCC) and the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) made a joint submission to the Climate Change Authority (CCA) to strongly support the development of a robust, publicly accessible progress-tracking Platform and commend the CCA for initiating this work at an important moment in Australia's climate transition.
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.Download
31 March 2026
Mobilising capital for clean energy, industry and climate resilience.
Climate Scenario Guidance: Submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Submission | Kate Simmonds | 17 December 2025
Investors welcome the draft Climate Scenario Guidance, which addresses a critical challenge for investors: the lack of consistency in physical climate risk assessments, but recommend some adjustments.
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