Sponsors

ANZ

ANZ’s Purpose, to shape a world where people and communities thrive, underpins all we do with our customers, employees, shareholders, and communities. 

As an institution on its own journey to net zero, we understand the opportunities and can offer sustainable financing to support your energy transition plans. We operate in close to 30 countries globally, with on-the-ground presence in more than 10 markets across Asia.
anz.com

Antipodes

Antipodes is a diversified investment firm (~A$21bn AUM) with investment teams based in Sydney, London and Melbourne. Our investment teams specialise in global and Australian listed equities, credit, infrastructure, and small and mid-cap companies. Our expert-driven strategies combine deep fundamental analysis, rigorous research, and a commitment to responsible investing. Each team focuses on delivering long-term value through tailored approaches, ranging from value-based equity investment to income-generating credit strategies and infrastructure asset selection. We aim to provide sustainable, risk-adjusted returns over the medium to long term.
antipodes.com

Campbell Global, a J.P. Morgan company

Acquired by J.P. Morgan Asset Management in 2021, Campbell Global is a leading global investment manager focused on timberland. We are widely recognised as an authority on both forest management and timberland investing, with nearly four decades of experience in timberland management and value creation. A pioneer in the field, over the last 40+ years we have managed 5.5 million acres worldwide for pension funds, foundations, and other institutional investors. The firm supervises approximately USD 10.1 billion and over 1.4 million acres in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Chile (as of December 31, 2024).
am.jpmorgan.com/au/en/asset-management/adv/

IFM Investors

Owned by pension funds. Inspired by their members. We are a global institutional asset manager driven to make a positive difference. By owning, operating and investing in critical assets across private markets, we seek to maximize long-term returns, as well as creating positive and wide-ranging benefits for communities around the world. As a responsible long-term investor IFM actively engages with the companies in which we invest on issues we care about, with the aim of improving their net performance while minimising investment risk. Operating globally from 13 offices, IFM manages investments across infrastructure, debt, listed equities and private equity assets.
ifminvestors.com/en-au/

Fidelity International

Our purpose is to work together to build better financial futures for our clients and we believe that investing, over the long-term, is critical to achieving that. Our focus is on delivering sustainable investment returns for our clients, while managing our impact on society and the environment.
fidelity.com.au

Lendlease

Lendlease is a leading Australian real estate business with an international Investments platform. We leverage our international real estate investment management and asset creation skills, as well as our development and construction capability, to deliver city-shaping projects that create strong and connected communities. For more than 65 years, we have delivered essential civic and social infrastructure, created award-winning urban precincts, and managed funds and assets for some of the world’s largest real estate investors. Placemaking, and creating value for our partners, investors and securityholders, is core to our strategy and competitive position as we contribute to the quality and liveability of cities by working in partnership with governments, investors and the community.
lendlease.com

Materials and Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance

MECLA takes a systems wide approach to decarbonising the building and construction industry with a focus on embodied carbon. MECLA engages all parts of the supply chain ecosystem and now has +190 organisations across the industry. We help drive a market transition across industry and government by: 

1. Demonstrating the demand and activating the supply of materials. 
2. Defining a best practice embodied carbon evaluation framework. 
3. Knowledge sharing through best practice education, case studies, myth-busting, demonstrations, and supporting innovation in materials and processes. 
4. Developing common language for design specifications, procurement guidelines and tendering criteria as standard practice for government agencies and companies.
5. Helping to manage industry’s climate and product transition risks. 

MECLA operates in a pre-competitive environment with a governance framework and adopts the spirit of a ‘do-tank’. MECLA has ten working groups focusing on all building and infrastructure types.
mecla.org.au

MSCI

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
msci.com

Pathzero

Pathzero is an Australian company that provides infrastructure that enables superannuation funds and institutional investors to effectively manage climate-related financial risks across their unlisted portfolios. Unlike traditional data providers, Pathzero leverages a powerful network effect, connecting more than 500 fund managers – representing more than $4.5 trillion in assets – and offering direct-from-source emissions data critical for accurate physical risk assessments.

Pathzero’s vertically integrated, fully compatible platform supports a top-down, risk-based approach, enabling investors to efficiently establish coverage today and strategically deepen disclosures over time. SOC 2 Type 2 certified, Pathzero ensures audit-ready disclosures aligned with Australia’s mandatory climate reporting requirements.
pathzero.com.au

CEFC

The CEFC is Australia’s specialist climate investor, helping cut emissions in the race towards net zero by 2050. We invest in the latest technologies to generate, store, manage and transmit clean energy. Our discounted asset finance programs help put more Australians on the path to sustainability, in their homes and on the road. CEFC capital is also backing the net zero transformation of our natural capital, infrastructure, property and resources sectors, while providing critical capital for the emerging climate tech businesses of tomorrow. With access to more than $32 billion from the Australian Government, we invest to deliver a positive return for taxpayers.
cefc.com.au

Lowercarbon Capital

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Chris Sacca and Crystal Sacca along with their partner Clay Dumas to back unreasonably ambitious founders building our way out of the climate mess. Our formula is simple: find the leading businesses in AI, advanced manufacturing, resilience and, above all, energy whose long term financial success inevitably results in fewer greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.
lowercarbon.com

New Forests

New Forests is a global investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, with AUD 11.7 billion (USD 7.7 billion) in assets under management across more than 4.3 million hectares (10.5 million acres) of investments. We manage a diversified portfolio of sustainable timber plantations and conservation areas, carbon and conservation finance projects, agriculture, timber processing and infrastructure. We aim to generate shared prosperity for our clients and the communities in which we operate and accelerate the transition to a sustainable future.
newforests.com

Emmi

Emmi provides climate risk analysis to institutional investors, allowing them to measure and manage the impact of carbon on their portfolios. 

Using machine learning and carbon financial algorithms, Emmi provides accurate, timely emissions data coupled with transition risk analysis at both an asset and portfolio level, across all major asset classes.

Now integrated directly into FactSet, powering climate insights across global markets.
emmi.io

Asia Investor Group on Climate Change

We are an initiative to create awareness and encourage action among Asia’s asset owners and asset managers about the risks and opportunities associated with climate change and low-carbon investing. AIGCC provides capacity and a trusted forum for investors active in Asia to share best practice and to collaborate on investment activity, credit analysis, risk management, engagement and policy related to climate change.
aigcc.net/

Infrastructure Sustainability Council

The Infrastructure Sustainability Council is a purpose-led, member-based organisation driving sustainability outcomes in infrastructure across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. At the heart of our work is the IS Rating Scheme—a trusted, comprehensive tool that assesses and certifies infrastructure projects based on their environmental, social, economic, and governance performance. Through collaboration, capacity building, and independent assurance, we support industry to create infrastructure that delivers long-term value for people and the planet.
iscouncil.org

The Energy

The Energy is dedicated to covering the business of energy focussing on the people, capital, projects and emerging technology driving the transition. We cut through the noise, converting complexity into clarity to deliver actionable insights that empower decision-makers to lead the charge.
theenergy.co
theenergy.co/subscribe

FS Sustainability

FS Sustainability reports on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues regarding Australian companies and institutional investors. The publication's unique, in-depth writing covers how investible Australian companies manage, disclose, and communicate their ESG risks and opportunities. The publication also explores how Australian institutional asset owners, asset managers and financial advisers are using best-practice ESG principles to mitigate risk and provide sources of long-term investment returns. 

Content is delivered through news, thought leadership articles and whitepapers. The title was established in 2011 by Rachel Alembakis as The Sustainability Report and was acquired by Rainmaker Group in October 2019. The publication was then re-launched as FS Sustainability to align with Financial Standard and its suite of titles.
fssustainability.com.au

KangaNews

Since June 2006, KangaNews has provided a complete information service on the Australian and New Zealand debt markets including in- and outbound deal flow with an Australasian angle. Since 2015, the business has also had a strong focus on sustainable finance. Together with a website, an email news update service (KangaNewsAlert) and an events team that focuses on specialised capital markets and sustainable finance conferences, KangaNews provides market participants with all the information they need to keep up to date with the deals and trends making headlines in the Australasian debt markets. Regular sections in the magazine include features offering issuer and asset-class insight, investor updates, deal and league tables, and investor and issuer profiles.
kanganews.com