The 2026 Environmental Policy Lecture, Climate Risk and Response: A Behavioural Challenge?, is presented by Professor Ben Newell. Climate risk is often broken down into three separate components: physical risks (floods, heatwaves, sea level rise), transition risks (technological and societal adjustments to a low-carbon economy), and liability risks (legal and financial exposures arising from a failure to disclose potential climate-related impacts). Professor Ben Newell will share how coordinating our responses to all three of these components benefits immensely from an improved understanding of behavioural reactions to climate change. Drawing on data from a range of studies examining individual and institutional-level […]