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The ICRR brings together a unique blend of expertise in climate science, behavioural science, economic science, law and governance to help industry action these changes. Below is a sample of our publications, showcasing the interdisciplinary approach we bring to climate risk and response.

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    • Oh, E., Camilleri, A. R., & Newell, B. R. (2025). The impact of climate literacy and financial literacy on consumer willingness to decarbonise. Australasian Marketing Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14413582251368421
    • André, R., Bradbury, H., Grant, D., Hastings, B., Hoffman, A. J., Jennings, P. D., Nyberg, D., & Wright, C. (2025). Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back? Journal of Management Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926241303427
    • Daiiani M; Sweetser Kyburz P; Stanley S; Van Rooy D; Caldwell S, 2025, 'Gameful interventions for pro-environmental attitude change', International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103439
    • Man, X. and Tang, Q., 2024. Tail risk driven by investment losses and exogenous shocks. ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA, 54(3), pp.712-737. https://doi.org/10.1017/asb.2024.25
    • Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., & TISP Consortium. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – The TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12, 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7
    • Richardson D; Hobeichi S; Sweet L-B; Rey-Costa E; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ, 2025, 'Predicting Australian energy demand variability using weather data and machine learning', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9b3b
    • Stanley SK; Leviston Z; Hogg TL; Walker I, 2025, 'The various forms of anger about climate change in Australia and their relations with self-reported actions, intentions, and distress', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102490
    • Szollosi, A., Wang-Ly, N., & Newell, B. R. (2025). Nudges for people who think. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02613-1

     
    • Akter, S., Babu, M. M., Hani, U., Sultana, S., Bandara, R., & Grant, D. (2024). Unleashing the power of artificial intelligence for climate action in industrial markets. Industrial Marketing Management, 117, 92–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2023.12.011
    • Avanzi, B., Li, Y., Wong, B., & Xian, A. (2024). Ensemble distributional forecasting for insurance loss reserving. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2024(1), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/03461238.2024.2365392
    • Chen, A., Gerick, L., & Tang, Q. (2024). Strategic timing of corporate social responsibility investments under reputational risk. Risk Sciences, 1, 100008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.risk.2024.100008
    • Chua, W. F., Fiedler, T., & Boedker, C. (2024). Projecting, infrastructuring and calculating: From an in vitro to an in vivo carbon market. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 112, 101549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2024.101549
    • Davies, C. A., & Stanley, S. K. (2024). Untangling the dairy paradox: How vegetarians experience and navigate the cognitive dissonance aroused by their dairy consumption. Appetite, 203, 107692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107692
    • Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., et al. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11, 1066. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
    • Fiedler, T., Wood, N., Grose, M. R., & Pitman, A. J. (2024). Storylines: A science-based method for assessing and measuring future physical climate-related financial risk. Accounting and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.13295
    • Filelis-Papadopoulos, C. K., Kirshner, S. N., & O’Reilly, P. (2024). Sustainability with Limited Data: A Novel Predictive Analytics Approach for Forecasting CO2 Emissions. Information Systems Frontiers, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-024-10516-8
    • Ghasemi, O., Cologna, V., Mede, N., Stanley, S., Strahm, N., Ross, R., Alfano, M., Kerr, J., Berger, S., Marques, M., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E., Mihelj, S. I., Newell, B., Oreskes, N., & Schäfer, M. (2024). Investigating the trust gap between scientists and climate scientists in 68 countries. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/f3qbu
    • Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. R. (2024). Evaluating the impact of climate risk scores on property purchase decisions. SSRN Preprint. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4892696
    • Hay, D., Harding, N., Redmayne, N. B., Khan, J., Singh, H., Sultana, N., & You, J. (2024). Comments on recent International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants exposure drafts regarding sustainability assurance and the use of external experts. Accounting & Finance. https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.13302
    • Hogg, T. L., Stanley, S. K., & O’Brien, L. V. (2024). Validation of the Hogg Climate Anxiety Scale. Climatic Change, 177, 86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03726-1
    • Huang, W., Nguyen, J., Tseng, C. L., Chen, W., & Kirshner, S. N. (2024). Pride or guilt? Impacts of consumers’ socially influenced recycling behaviors on closed-loop supply chains. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(6), 2067-2084. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2023.0721
    • Kim, I., Stanley, S. K., Jylhä, K. M., & Badullovich, N. (2024). Limited and mixed evidence for system-sanctioned change to protect the environment: A replication study. International Review of Social Psychology, 37(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.871
    • Liu, H., & Tang, Q. (2024). Modeling and pricing credit risk with a focus on recovery risk. Journal of Banking & Finance, 170, 107317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107317
    • McDonald, M., Park, S., Anantharajah, K., Burke, A., Celermajer, D., Evans, M. C., Eckersley, R., Gulliver, R., McNaught, R., Morgan, W., Ruwet, M., Symons, J., Schlosberg, D., & Vogler, A. (2024). Ecological crises and ecopolitics research in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13016
    • Mu, M., Sabot, M. E., Ukkola, A. M., Rifai, S. W., De Kauwe, M. G., Hobeichi, S., & Pitman, A. J. (2024). Examining the role of biophysical feedbacks on simulated temperature extremes during the Tinderbox Drought and Black Summer bushfires in southeast Australia. Weather and Climate Extremes, 45, 100703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2024.100703
    • Neal, T. (2024). Estimating the effectiveness of forest protection using regression discontinuity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 127, 103021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103021
    • Pitman, A. J., Saribatir, E., Greenhill, C., Green, S., Pitman, S. J., & Fiedler, T. (2024). Linking physical climate risk with mandatory business risk disclosure requirements. Environmental Research Letters, 19. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad4377
    • Raupach, T. H., Soderholm, J. S., & Aldridge, J. (2024). Fostering Science–Industry Connections in Australia’s Severe Storm Science Community. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(3), E559-E566. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0325.1
    • Stanley, S. K., Jylhä, K. M., Leviston, Z., & Walker, I. (2024). Is conservative opposition to climate change threat-based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(2), 879-893. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12710
    • Stanley, S. K., Heffernan, T., Macleod, E., Lane, J., Walker, I., Evans, O., Greenwood, L., Kurz, T., Calear, A. L., Reynolds, J., Cruwys, T., Christensen, B. K., Sutherland, S., & Rodney, R. M. (2024). Solastalgia following the Australian summer of bushfires: Qualitative and quantitative insights about environmental distress and recovery. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 95, 102273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102273
    • Teckentrup, L., De Kauwe, M. G., Pitman, A. J., Wårlind, D., Ukkola, A. M., & Smith, B. (2024). Resolving uncertainty in the response of Australia's terrestrial carbon cycle to projected climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(22), e2024GL111398. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111398
    • Truong, C., Malavasi, M., & Goldstein, M. A. (2024). Timing is (almost) everything: Real options, climate adaptation, extreme value theory, and flood risk management. Journal of Environmental Management. UNSW Business School Research Paper, Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4962060
    • Truong, C., Malavasi, M., Li, H., et al. (2024). Optimal dynamic climate adaptation pathways: A case study of New York City. Annals of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-024-05886-w
    • Wang, L., Abramowitz, G., Wang, Y.-P., Pitman, A., & Viscarra Rossel, R. (2024). An ensemble estimate of Australian soil organic carbon using machine learning and process-based modelling. EGUsphere [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3016

     
    • Batcup, C., Breth-Petersen, M., Dakin, T., Barratt, A., McGain, F., Newell, B. R., & Pickles, K. (2023). Behavioural change interventions encouraging clinicians to reduce carbon emissions in clinical activity: A systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09370-2
    • Balaguer-Mercado, A., Kirshner, S. N., & Tseng, C. L. (2023). Sustainable Supplier Selection under Financial Hardships: The Conflicting Impact of Spatial and Temporal Psychological Distances. Sustainability, 15(12), 9561.https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129561
    • Collier, B., Huber, T., Jaspersen, J. G., & Richter, A. (2023). Homeowners' willingness to hedge flood risks as prices increase. Available at SSRN 4635177, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4635177
    • Newell, B. R. (2023). Strengthening psychological science for optimal climate communication and action policies. One Earth, 6(4), 341–342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.010

     

Special reports
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Counting the cost of fossil fuels in the Pacific

Around 80% of the Pacific’s energy supply comes from imported oil products, with nations spending between 10 and 25% of GDP on fossil fuel imports – more than the regional average of 8% on education and 6% on health. But Pacific island countries can save hundreds of millions of dollars each year by replacing fossil fuel imports with renewable energy. 

Author: Wesley Morgan

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Working with uncertainty in climate planning and adaptation

Developed in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, this briefing note explores how climate model simulations offer insight into future scenarios, each carrying varying degrees of uncertainty, and examines the critical role that uncertainty in climate projections plays in informed decision-making and effective adaptation planning.

Authors: Gab Abramowitz, Ben Newell, Angela Kaplish, Andy Pitman

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Working together: Australian and Pacific universities helping to deliver a successful and ambitious COP31 climate summit

Coauthored by UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response and the COP31 Universities Alliance, this briefing outlines the opportunity for COP31 and the role Australia and Pacific nations can play as global climate leaders. It explores how academic collaborations support the COP presidency through research, policy guidance, and public engagement — offering a single point of contact for the higher education sector, evidence-based policy proposals, and expanded regional networks.

Authors: Michelle Kerr and Dr Wesley Morgan

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