Welcome to Climate Risk CORE

The Climate Risk team is a multi-disciplinary group with expertise in climatology, water, coastal processes, geomorphology, ecology, economics, law and governance, social policy, planning and risk analysis. We examine the impacts of climate variability and change.

Climate risk focuses on those risks associated with climate change in an environment of increasing vulnerability. The science of climate change is now well established: governments, business and much of industry now accept the scientific evidence that climate is already changing due to human activity.

The challenge is how to quantify and assess climate change-associated risks for key sectors such as water, food, biodiversity, economies, financial markets and national security. Some sectors are robust and would withstand significant climate change while others are highly vulnerable since they have become tuned to the existing climate state. At Macquarie University, our strategy is to use science and impact assessment infused by and packaged within a framework of economic, financial, and legal risk. This packaging is not cosmetic: it is a re-development of the science to communicate directly in the language of economics, policy, and regulation.