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This is a Must-Attend Event For:
Institutional
Investors
Institutional investors, from portfolio managers to responsible investment leaders — navigating policy uncertainty, climate risk and capital deployment decisions that now sit at the core of fiduciary duty.
Senior Investment Executives & Boards
Senior investment executives and trustees — including CIOs, CEOs and CROs — seeking system-level insight on climate risk, policy divergence and market signals shaping long-term capital allocation.
Policymakers &
Regulators
Policymakers and regulators engaging with institutional capital — seeking insight into investor expectations, market readiness and policy settings that unlock investment while managing systemic risk.
Service Providers &
Market Enablers
Advisers, data, legal and technology providers supporting institutional investors — aligning solutions with emerging standards, investor demand and the practical realities of climate implementation.
The Investor Group on Climate Change’s annual Summit brings together institutional investors
and economic leaders to navigate climate risks, opportunities and policy change.
For more than ten years, we have drawn on our network’s deep insight to help attendees make informed
investment decision at a time of increasing market and policy complexity.
Defined by the seniority of its participants, it is one of the most significant climate investment
gatherings in the region.
In 2026, the Summit confronts a new investment reality, and what it means for long-term capital.
$4.6 Trillion
AUM Represented Across
IGCC Membership
65%+
Executives & Senior Leaders
Typical Summit Composition
10+ Years
Convening the IGCC Summit,
Since 2015
Featured In
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Capital Brief |
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The Energy | KangaNews
Our Keynote Speakers
Arabella Douglas (Minyungbal / Bundjalung), Chief Strategist, Currie Country Social Change on Forever Economies: Investing in the Systems Every Return Depends On
Modern economies are sophisticated at financing extraction. We mobilise capital for the ports, mines, power stations and housing that draw on Country to produce value. We are equally sophisticated at maintaining what we build. We budget for machinery, buildings and transport networks, because assets deteriorate without care.
We rarely apply that logic to the living systems every economy depends on. Where is the maintenance budget for rivers, for catchments, for biodiversity?
When those systems weaken, the costs surface elsewhere. Insurance repricing. Falling agricultural productivity. Infrastructure exposure.
In Aboriginal economies, Country has never been separate. Country is not an environmental system supporting economic activity.
It is the productive infrastructure every other economy rests on. Renewal is built into production rather than added afterwards, through what Arabella describes as “reciprocal obligation”.
At IGCC's 2026 Summit, Arabella asks what follows for capital when Country is understood not as an environmental externality, but as productive infrastructure. Drawing on Australia's oldest continuing systems of law, governance and economy, Forever Economies challenges investors to reconsider maintenance, reciprocity and permission as conditions of production itself.
The question is not simply whether an investment can reduce harm, but whether it reproduces the living systems from which its returns are made possible.
Will this investment leave the system stronger than it found it?
Live Virtual Keynote Address
The Baroness Bryony Worthington, Worthington and Associates LLC
Bryony Worthington is a British climate policy expert, legislator and not-for-profit entrepreneur credited with shaping one of the world's most significant pieces of climate legislation. As a campaigner at Friends of the Earth, she led the campaign that produced the UK's landmark Climate Change Act — and while seconded as a civil servant (from a UK energy company) she helped draft it. Dozens of countries have subsequently adopted the model.
She was created a life peer in 2011, sitting in the House of Lords as Baroness Worthington of Cambridge, and served as Shadow Energy Minister. She founded Sandbag (now Ember), a data-driven non-profit focused on accelerating the clean energy transition globally, and remains Chair of Ember's Board. She also helped Environmental Defense Fund establish a presence in Europe and co-led the Quadrature Climate Foundation in the UK.
Bryony is currently co-host of Cleaning Up, one of the world's leading energy and climate podcasts, and is a board member, adviser and consultant in the climate and clean energy space. She adopts a pragmatic approach toward the broad range of solutions needed to avert harm from growing climate risks. This includes supporting new nuclear energy and research into engineered climate stabilisation options that cool the planet, along with the governance frameworks required to oversee them.
She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge and an Adjunct Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently on leave from the Lords and living with her family in Saratoga, California.
Be Part of the Climate Investment Summit Shaping The Region's Transition: Hear From and Meet Industry Leaders in Person
More speakers will be announced soon.
Elizabeth Thurbon, Ph.D.
Professor of International Political Economy | Director, Green Energy Statecraft Project | World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Equitable Transition (2025-2026)
Nanthesh Sivarajah
Investment Director, AustralianSuper
Julianne Wilkin
Senior Portfolio Manager - Impact Investing, Australian Retirement Trust
Ludovic Theau
Chief Investment Officer & Group Executive – Asset Management, Australian Ethical
Rory Lonergan
Chief Investment Officer, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Kim Farrant
General Manager, Responsible Investment, HESTA
Andrew Bambrook
Head of Investments, Real Assets, Rest
Jodie Barns
ESG Manager, UniSuper
A New Investment Reality
The investment landscape is changing. A rupture in the global order — geopolitical disruption, fragmented markets, strategic rivalry and — is reshaping how institutional investors manage their portfolios.
Within that context, climate investment factors can no longer be viewed in isolation. They interact with economic strategy, trade and national security — shaping which industries attract capital, where infrastructure flows, and how quickly the energy system is rebuilt.
For Australian institutional investors, the implications are material and immediate. The question is no longer whether to act — it's how to deploy long-term capital with discipline in a volatile, uncertain environment where the quality of your insight determines the quality of your decisions.
For institutional investors navigating this environment, access to decision-grade insight has never mattered more. The IGCC Summit 2026 brings together the analysis, expertise and peer perspectives needed to navigate a system still adjusting.
Explore the Questions Shaping Institutional Investment Decisions Today
Climate solutions strategies. Uninsurable risk. Capital deployment across Asia Pacific. The critical challenges ESG and investment teams are navigating together in 2026. Learn more.
What You’ll Gain at the IGCC Summit
Make better climate investment decisions — informed by credible insight, senior peers and direct engagement with policymakers.
Our Singular Focus on Climate Investment
Our Summit distils IGCC’s year-round work with investors, researchers and policymakers into a concentrated forum that equips professionals with the insight needed to manage climate risk and allocate capital with confidence.
Forward-Looking Intelligence on Key Developments
Focused on the most consequential developments in climate finance and policy — translating insight from across IGCC’s finance, research and policymaking networks into forward-looking intelligence that keeps investors ahead of market and regulatory change.
A Deeper Understanding
A focused forum for decision-grade climate investment insight — going beyond mainstream debate to provide the evidence, policy context and peer practice investors need to make informed capital allocation and risk management decisions.
A Premier Networking Experience
Previous IGCC Summits have seen more than 60% of attendees drawn from executive leadership and senior management, creating a uniquely senior forum for connection. Engage directly with policymakers and finance leaders in conversations that shape capital markets.
Where Capital Meets Policy
A rare opportunity to engage across the full climate finance ecosystem — bringing together institutional capital, policymakers and market leaders in one forum to align signals, surface constraints and accelerate practical progress.
"There’s enormous economic opportunity in climate action. Business opportunity, investment opportunity and jobs opportunity – all waiting to be tapped. I’ll continue to count on you, the IGCC, as a very important partner."
Hon. Chris Bowen MP
Minister for Climate Change and Energy
IGCC Summit, August 2023.
About the Organiser
Created by investors, for investors, the Investor Group on Climate has helped shape the climate investment landscape across Australia and New Zealand for more than two decades — empowering the region’s largest funds to embed climate into
core investment decisions and real-world action.
Today, IGCC represents investors with $4.6 trillion in assets under management across Australia and New Zealand.
Our members include the nations’ largest superannuation and retail funds, specialist investors and advisory groups.
Together, their beneficiaries represent over 15.8 million Australians and millions more New Zealanders.
Watch our story - told through the eyes of IGCC CEOs, past and present - or click 'Learn More' to explore our recent work.
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