Reframing Risk

Fireside's Ben Hart moderated a panel discussion at last year's AdaptNSW Forum, which asked a simple question: why, when climate change demands bold action from institutions, have those institutions tended toward greater caution? The conversation resonated well beyond the room - enough that Ben and two fellow panellists, Oliver Costello and Dan Etheridge, decided to extend it into a discussion paper which makes a case for greater risk intelligence - a shift in how public institutions understand uncertainty, one that treats inaction as its own form of risk.