Policy & Advocacy

IGCC is the investment community’s authoritative voice on climate change.

Our policy positions are created through extensive member consultation, thought leadership, and research based on the latest science.

IGCC then advocates for these policies by engaging with relevant decision-makers across Parliament, government departments, media and other key stakeholders.

We publish thought-leading resources based on exclusive research and our unique position in a network of investors, analysts, academic researchers and policy-makers.

Download IGCC’s Policy Positions 2026-2030 (pdf).

Parliamentary Engagements

The Investor Group on Climate Change has deep relationships with key decision makers. We engage across parliament to advocate for policy that avoids systemic climate risks and unlock substantial investment in a clean economy.

Regular Engagements

As a bipartisan organisation, we engage regularly with ministers, opposition, and the crossbench.

Canberra Roadshow

We regularly take senior investment professionals to Canberra, arranging meetings with key departments, political offices, and senior media.

Roundtable Discussion

We organise high level roundtable events between representatives of some of the country’s largest investors and the Treasurer and key ministers.

Working Groups

Where we share information, build capacity, and work on collaborative projects with members.

Policy & Advocacy

Coordinates government engagement and maintains oversight on the role companies and industry associations play in delivering constructive climate policy outcomes.

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Energy Transition Subgroup

Chair: Ian Leiblich
Head of ESG, EG

Develops effective energy transition policy required to achieve net zero emissions, including in response to the latest Capacity Investment Scheme.

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Good energy policy is key to good economic policy.


We need groups like the IGCC to continue making the case to all Australians that good climate policy is good for investment and good for jobs.

– Chris Bowen MP
Minister for Climate Change & Energy
IGCC Summit June 2022

Latest Policy & Advocacy News, Resources, and Events

Safeguard Mechanism Reforms: How to Futureproof Industry

17 August 2026

New modelling by EY shows the lowest-cost, most-efficient settings for the Safeguard Mechanism to guide Australia's industrial base to long term success.

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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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

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.