Press releases

New Report Suggests Climate Change and Environmental Risk is Integral to Investors’ Considerations Around Their Investment Approach

Assessment of more than 220 institutional investors shows investors are taking a range of actions to manage climate-related risks and opportunities

6 November 2025 – A new report released today, just days ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), with data from more than 220 of the world’s largest asset owners and asset managers, finds that the financial materiality of climate change and environmental risk is now well-understood by investors.

Blogs

Spotlight on Australia: Investors prepare for mandatory climate disclosures in Australia

The Investor Agenda Founding Partner – Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) – highlights the regulatory landscape for climate action in Australia, in particular the Australian climate-disclosure standard (AASB S2).

Events

The Investor Agenda Side Event for COP30: Accelerating and Scaling Up Investor and Government Climate Action

Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 16:00 – 17:00 (GMT-3)
Location: Room 102, Anhembi Convention Centre, São Paulo, Brazil [in person only]

This session will present new research on the global state of investor climate action. It will provide a forum for investors to discuss actions they’re taking, and the steps they’re calling on governments to take at COP30. Including investor perspectives on:

• actions to address climate risk and opportunities, corporate engagement, investor disclosure, and policy advocacy;
• climate related trends, including expectations on key COP30 outcomes such as private finance mobilization for resilience in EMDEs, investable NDCs and progress in implementing the outcome of the First Global Stocktake.

Reports

The Changing Climate Policy Landscape

The Founding Partners of the Investor Agenda have published a climate policy report out lining eight key features of effective climate policy as a consideration for policymakers.

The report takes the opportunity provided by the UNFCCC Global Stocktake to summarize how global climate policy has developed and to describe the core features that should underpin climate policy going forward. Several case studies have been provided to illustrate effective climate finance policy in Australia, the European Union, Japan and the United States. 

Case studies

Aviva

Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc. The business delivers investment management solutions, services and client-driven performance to clients worldwide. Aviva Investors operates in 14 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and the United Kingdom with £234 billion in assets under management as at 30 June 2024. Aviva set out its Net Zero by 2040 ambition in March 2021.

Read the Aviva case study here.

Cbus Super

Cbus is the leading Industry Super Fund representing those thhttps://theinvestoragenda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Aviva-ICAPs-Case-Study.pdfat help build and maintain Australia. As one of Australia’s largest super funds, it provides superannuation and income stream accounts to more than 920,000 (as at 30 June 2024) and it manages more than $94 billion (as at 30 June 2024). Cbus’ members include workers and retirees, their families and employers.

This case study highlights how Cbus uses advocacy as a key tool through which it can contribute to the shaping of policy, regulation and standards that are needed to reduce systemic risks.

Read the Cbus Super case study here.

University Pension Plan (UPP)

University Pension Plan (UPP) is a defined benefit pension plan serving over 40,000 members in the university sector in Ontario, Canada and managing CAD $11.7 billion in pension assets. As a long-term investor, UPP recognizes that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, present risks and opportunities to its investment portfolio.

Read the UPP case study here.