This submission expresses several concerns with the Commonwealth Government's proposed Energy White Paper. Introduction: The submission consists of three sections: A summary of our views; Our overarching concerns with the parameters of the Issues Paper, and Our responses to several of the specific issue areas identified in the Issues Paper. The Climate Institute’s overarching concerns...

Introduction: There is an emerging awareness of the climate and carbon risks to our superannuation funds but awareness about disclosure, advocacy and active ownership has been patchy. The Climate Institute is at the forefront in examining the assumptions behind such investment decisions and the extent to which climate risk is or is not integrated. This...

The 19th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties will take place in Warsaw, Poland, from 11-22 November 2013. This will be the first major international climate change meeting attended by the newly elected Coalition government. The Warsaw meeting will occur as legislation is introduced into Parliament to remove the nation’s first legislated...

Climate change represents a unique challenge to asset owners and their ability to manage global, cross-sectoral, systemic risks. It demands change management across every function of a fund. Many asset owners have already acknowledged the need to build capacity and challenge traditional industry practices in order to manage climate change. However, there has so far...

This short paper argues that the Coalition’s Climate policy remains unclear, and no independent analysis has shown that it can achieve substantial, absolute reductions in national emissions. The new Coalition Government has said that it will seek to: Remove a price and limit on Australia’s carbon pollution through the repeal of the Clean Energy Futures...