Josh Hacker On The Evolution Of Climate Risk Models

What does it really take to model climate risk in a way that businesses and financial institutions can use?

In this episode, Josh Hacker — Chief Science Officer at Jupiter Intelligence — joins to talk about how the climate risk modeling discipline has evolved in the eight-or-so years since the company's founding, and the lessons learnt along the way on the importance of transparency and accountability.

He dives into the challenges reconciling clients' appetite for actionable data with the inherent uncertainty of climate risk model outputs, and discusses how and why competition in the climate risk analytics space is hotting up.

It's a rare chance to hear from a climate scientist who also knows his way around the tech and finance spaces, too — making this a must-listen.

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