Agenda

Explore the program! This early preview offers a taste of what’s to come — with timings and more keynote speakers and panel sessions to be announced soon.

The Summit also includes valuable networking opportunities, including a Cocktail Reception and the Climate Leaders Dinner & Awards Evening on Day 1, celebrating outstanding leadership across the sector.

Keynotes

Al Gore

Founding Partner and Chairman
Generation Investment Management

Saul Griffith

Inventor, Author, Founder and Scientist

Physical Risk and Adaptation Panels

Stronger regional partnerships are key to unlocking sustainable growth. This theme focuses on collaboration between Australian and Asia-based investors, showcasing opportunities to accelerate decarbonisation, scale capital flows, and deepen engagement in fast-growing markets. We'll explore the strategic and practical value of cross-border investment leadership.

Modelling Climate Damages: Understanding the Latest Projections for Climate-related Economic Loss and Damage

In the last few months, investors have gotten access to more comprehensive, credible and decision-useful projections about the implications of climate-related damage and disruption on the Australian economy, and Australian portfolios. It’s ugly, but necessary: You can’t navigate a path forward unless we accurately see the landscape. This session will cover the latest overview from the Australian Government’s National Climate Risk Assessment, and the latest high quality modelling on the economic payoffs from well-planned adaptation in combination with the transition to net zero.

Just Adaptation: Financing Equitable Climate Resilience

As countries move towards a resilient, net-zero economy, the impacts of this transition will be felt by some people and communities more than others. This includes workers in carbon-intensive industries and communities vulnerable to physical climate risks. As financiers of this transition, investors have an important role to play in ensuring that both the transition to a low-carbon economy and adaptation to the impacts of climate change are socially equitable. In this panel session, we will focus on just adaptation, exploring what this means, how it intersects with just transition, how these concepts are relevant to investors, and provide examples of leading practice from Australia and Asia.

Asia Pacific Partnerships Panels

Stronger regional partnerships are key to unlocking sustainable growth. This theme focuses on collaboration between Australian and Asia-based investors, showcasing opportunities to accelerate decarbonisation, scale capital flows, and deepen engagement in fast-growing markets. We'll explore the strategic and practical value of cross-border investment leadership.

Beyond Borders: The Transition Finance Opportunity in Asia and Emerging Markets

Reaching net zero will require large-scale investment in every region to support the shift to low-emission energy while sustaining economic growth. This is especially true for emerging markets, which account for over two-thirds of global emissions and face the steepest growth in future emissions without urgent change. This session explores the investor case for greater portfolio exposure to Asia and emerging markets and climate-aligned strategies that deliver both financial returns and real-world emissions reductions. It also highlights the essential role of public and private actors in unlocking capital flows. The iinvestment opportunities — and risks of inaction — are vast. Join leaders navigating this essential frontier for climate and real-economy impact.

Mobilising Investors for COP31 and Beyond: Elevating Ambition on Climate-Aligned Investment and Policy in the Asia Pacific

Geographic distance, limited access, and a lack of familiarity with UN processes have historically kept many domestic investors at the margins of COP policy advocacy. With COP31 likely to be hosted by Australia and the Pacific, that is about to change. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Australia to demonstrate climate leadership. For investors, it’s a critical moment to engage early and advocate for the policy settings that will improve climate-aligned investing in the region and align trade and finance flows with net zero. This session explores how the investor community can shape domestic and regional policy before, during and post-COP31.

Corporate Engagement and Stewardship Panels

Stewardship is a core lever for influencing real-economy outcomes. This theme explores how institutional investors are engaging with companies on transition planning, governance, and disclosure—driving accountability and ambition across sectors. We'll examine the evolving expectations, frameworks, and practices behind effective climate stewardship.

Unlocking Low-Carbon Steel: The Role of System Stewardship in Australia's Green Industrial Future

Decarbonising steel is critical to achieving global net zero targets, with iron and steel production accounting for 7–9% of global emissions. For Australia, the opportunity lies in leveraging new technologies and its renewable energy potential to become a world-leading exporter of green iron and low embodied carbon steel. Realising this opportunity requires overcoming complex, system-wide barriers across infrastructure, capital allocation, demand signals and policy. This session explores how System Stewardship can help investors drive coordinated action across the supply chain, enabling investable pathways that align with both net zero implementation and Australia's long-term economic competitiveness.

Physical Risk and Returns: Aligning Corporate Action with Investor Expectations

Climate change could cost the global economy up to US$3.1 trillion annually by 2050, posing a material threat to long-term returns for beneficiaries. Investors are now expecting companies to assess, build resilience to and disclose their exposure to physical climate risks. This session will set out investor expectations of companies and highlight IGCC’s latest guidance on corporate physical risk and resilience, cover relevant data and tools for investors, and understand the company’s perspective. As physical risks and damages intensify, the discussion will explore how strong risk assessments, adaptation and building resilience can protect value, ensure continuity, and safeguard financial outcomes.

Fit for Transition: Do Company Boards Have What It Takes?

As the net zero transition reshapes entire sectors, Boards play a critical role in guiding companies through complex change. But do Boards in climate-exposed industries have the right mix of skills and experience to govern effectively in this new era? 

This session draws on IGCC’s engagement with investors and directors to identify key Board-level capabilities needed to manage climate risks and navigate economic decarbonisation. It will highlight key challenges, gaps and strategies for improvement — offering institutional investors practical insights into assessing and supporting Board readiness for the transition.

Investment in Climate Solutions Panels

Institutional capital is essential to scaling climate solutions. This theme explores how investors can mobilise capital into clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, and low-emission technologies — supporting the net zero transition while delivering long-term value. Discussions will focus on innovation, opportunity, and overcoming barriers to investment at scale.

Climate Solutions Showcase: Investing in Real-World Transition 

New to the 2025 program, the Climate Showcase highlights investor-backed companies delivering real-world climate solutions across key sectors of the economy. This dynamic panel will feature case studies that demonstrate how institutional capital is accelerating decarbonisation, supporting innovation, and enabling scalable impact. With a focus on credible, investable solutions, the session will connect the dots between capital allocation and climate outcomes — offering fresh insights into where the transition is taking shape on the ground. Ideal for investors looking to align portfolios with net zero while driving tangible progress across the real economy.  

Catalytic Capital: Mobilising Investment for the Net Zero Transition

Closing the multi-trillion dollar investment gap is one of the greatest challenges to achieving net zero goals. Massive capital is needed to scale climate solutions — from clean energy and low-carbon infrastructure to nature-based systems and industrial decarbonisation. While public finance plays a role, private capital is critical. Australia’s superannuation sector, one of the largest globally, has the potential to drive this shift. This session explores the innovative financing strategies that can position Australian institutional investors to be at the forefront of the net zero transition across the region.

An Investible Plan for Australia’s Energy Sector: New NEM Rules and a Managed Retreat from Gas Infrastructure

Australia’s National Electricity Market is undergoing one of the fastest and most complex decarbonisation efforts in the world. With hundreds of billions in investment needed to replace aging coal-fired generation with renewables, storage, and transmission, the opportunity is vast — but so are the challenges. Market rules designed for coal and gas are misaligned with the needs of a near-zero emissions grid, creating risk for investors and slowing progress. This session explores what’s required to update market rules to de-risk investment in renewable energy, generation and storage in the long-term. It also examines how managing the decline of the gas network will be critical to achieving a least-cost transition to net zero.

Unlocking Capital for Australia’s Net Zero Future: Investment, Sector Plans and the Path to 2035

As the Australian Government prepares to set a 2035 emissions reduction target, attention is turning to how sectoral transition planning can underpin delivery. This session will explore how net zero sector plans can provide credible decarbonisation pathways, highlight investment opportunities, and help attract capital at scale. Panellists will discuss how these plans can support an orderly transition, reduce systemic risk, and create the conditions institutional investors need to drive long-term value and emissions reductions across the economy.