Global Perspectives
Nature the most fundamental form of capital
26 August 2020 / WORDS BY Martijn Wilder AM
read articleA new investment thematic – Natural capital – is emerging. Natural capital can help pension and sovereign wealth funds meet their need for mandated returns, and satisfy their requirements to do so in a way that is not only less harmful, but has the potential to restore the environment.
A Step Change for the Market: Pressure Rising on Adaptation and Nature as Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan Land
17 September 2025 / WORDS BY Sarah Barker and Zoe Whitton
read articleThe release of the National Climate Risk Assessment comes at a pivotal time – sandwiched between the recent ICJ determination on government accountability for climate impacts, and the impending release of Australia’s 2035 interim emissions reduction target. To help unpack the implications for business, and where to next, Pollination’s Sarah Barker and Zoe Whitton have prepared an analysis that considers the very real market impacts on insurance pricing, capital allocation, disclosure requirements, and board-level decision-making.
Insurance – the climate change adaptation lever hiding in plain sight
11 September 2025 / WORDS BY Sarah Barker
read articleWhile the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on state climate liability has been grabbing headlines, Pollination Managing Director Sarah Barker points to another development that could quietly reshape how governments, communities and businesses adapt to extreme weather: insurance.
Charting Green Lanes: A Regional Model for SAF Market Development in Asia-Pacific
21 July 2025 / WORDS BY Mitch Shannon
read articleGreen lanes for SAF can connect supply and demand across APAC to turn regional fragmentation into economic opportunity, accelerating aviation decarbonisation and enhancing regional fuel security.
De-Risking Climate Adaptation Investment: Building resilience investment frameworks for an unavoidable future
16 July 2025 / WORDS BY By Zoe Whitton, Managing Director & Head of Strategy & Impact at Pollination and Jay Koh, Chair of GARI & Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group
read articleThere is an “unavoidable opportunity” for climate adaptation and resilience investment. Financial institutions, governments, insurers and philanthropists all have a role to play, and COP30 presents a critical moment to act.
Adaptation – from dirty word to commercial imperative
24 June 2025 / WORDS BY Sarah Barker
read articleBoards don’t get to choose which risks are material. And with physical impacts now locked in, adaptation deserves attention in proportion to its magnitude.
Peruvian farmer loses battle – but will strategic environmental litigants win the liability war?
24 June 2025 / WORDS BY Sarah Barker
read articleThe Lliuya decision is attracting global attention — not because the claim succeeded (it didn’t), but because the Court accepted that major emitters can, in principle, be held liable for climate harms abroad. Notably, the judgment also systematically dismantles key arguments commonly used by large emitters to deny liability.