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Former climate change minister Greg Combet today urged institutional investors to take a stand against companies that try to avoid action on climate change.

Over the next few weeks, banks and fund managers will face increasing scrutiny of their investments in the fossil fuel sector.

Activist Bill McKibben had some useful messages for institutional investors at a Sydney meeting, according to the Investor Group on Climate Change, while Greens Leader Christine Milne says it's time for the Future Fund to exit fossil fuels.

Australian and international investor groups have demanded that oil and gas companies demonstrate that they are effectively controlling fugitive methane emissions, and they want intensive gas users to exert pressure as well.