91��˰涶��

Events

Personalise

Upcoming events

Some world national flags on poles on a wall.

Event Location: CCRC Seminar room, Level 4, Mathews Building, UNSW Sydney

Climate change and investment treaty arbitration: Barriers and opportunities to climate action

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

The seminar will be chaired by Associate Professor Jonathan Bonnitcha (UNSW Law & Justice) and feature a talk from Professor Lauge Poulsen (University College London), who chairs OECD's work-programme on climate policy and investment treaties.

ESG factors are essential for enhancing sustainability and corporate responsibility in businesses encompassing environmental impact social responsibility governance practices and sustainability re

Climate Risk and Response short course: 91��˰涶��

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Recognising climate change as a fundamental financial risk, and with complex reporting requirements and regulatory pressures intensifying, the demand for climate-ready skills is soaring.

Past events

ICRR Seminar Series: Kristle Romero Cortes

Event Location Seminar room 2093, Level 2, Quadrangle Building, UNSW Sydney

ICRR Seminar: Assoc. Prof. Kristle Romero Cortes

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Title: Banking on Resilience: Integrating Climate Risk into Bank Stress Testing This project uses finance factor modelling to quantify banks' exposure to climate risk, offering insights into their resilience to climate change. By pinpointing areas of vulnerability, the project aims to support financial institutions in bolstering their adaptability to climate risks and to guide regulatory updates for a more resilient financial system. Additionally, these insights contribute to developing improved stress-testing frameworks.

ICRR Industry Day

The Calyx, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney NSW 2000

UNSW institute for Climate Risk & Response Industry Forum

8:45 AM - 6:00 PM

Join us for the ICRR 2024 Conference where a wide array of professionals from academia, industry and government will convene to discuss emerging key themes, challenges and opportunities in the fast-changing landscape of climate risk and response.

ICRR ECR Workshop

Colombo Theatre B, UNSW Sydney

UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response Early Career Researchers Workshop

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR) is excited to announce our Early Career Researchers Workshop on Wednesday, 16th October. This event offers PhD students and early career researchers a unique opportunity to share their climate-related research, collaborate with peers, and drive innovation in the field.

CCRC Seminar Room, Level 4, Mathews Building, UNSW Sydney

ICRR Seminar: Dr. Samantha Stanley

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Using social psychology to understand public responses to climate change and climate migration. Academics and activists are increasingly recognising climate change as not only an environmental and health issue, but also as a justice issue. Those facing its worst consequences typically have not had access to high-emission lifestyles, or the means to adapt to the challenges climate change brings. In this seminar, I will talk about some of the ways that my collaborators and I use social psychology to try to understand how people respond to climate change. This will include some work on the ideological barriers to acceptance and action on climate change and the various emotional responses people have to environmental change. I argue that recognising that climate change already disproportionately affects vulnerable communities requires moving beyond a focus on the determinants of support for mitigation measures. The main part of the talk will give an overview of our emerging research on public attitudes towards funding adaptation measures in communities vulnerable to climate impacts and providing resettlement opportunities for those at risk of displacement who want and need to relocate.

Prof Christopher Wright portrait

CCRC Seminar Room, Level 4, Mathews Building, UNSW Sydney

ICRR Seminar: Prof. Christopher Wright - Confronting the fossil fuel hegemony in an era of climate crisis: The politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering

Climate change is the most critical issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures rise, floods, fires and storms are becoming more intense and frequent. People are suffering. Yet, despite over 30 years of international climate negotiations, emissions continue to increase and as the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has bluntly stated, “We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” This seminar presentation provides an overview of how corporations, governments, and civil society organisations have organised past and present climate responses in terms of mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. This has occurred within what we term a “fossil fuel hegemony” in which exponential growth of the capitalist system has been based upon a capital-state nexus which ensures the continued dominance of fossil energy. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, we highlight how the worst impacts of climate change might be avoided.

two people in landscape

Commonwealth Bank Place - South Building

CBA Behavioural Experimentation Hackathon on Climate Action

ICRR is partnering with CBA, UTS and the Harvard Star Lab to run a Climate Action Hackathon. The event kicks off at 9am on Thursday 14th March at Commonwealth Bank Place - South Building, 11 Harbour St, Sydney, NSW 2000. There will be talks from leading academics as well as CBA Executives, and a panel discussion, featuring ICRR Director Professor Ben Newell, on trends in science and business around climate action.