Josh Hacker On The Evolution Of Climate Risk Models

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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.

Listen below, download from the Podcasts page on Climate Proof, or tune in via Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

We talk about:

👉 The evolution of Jupiter Intelligence, and what made 2017 an inflection point for climate risk analytics

👉 The strengths and blind spots of climate model ensembles like CMIP5 and CMIP6, and what it means to “downscale” them for real-world use

👉 How probabilistic data and uncertainty are features, not bugs, of good climate science

👉 Why transparency and accountability from companies is essential as climate intelligence tech takes off

📝 Read Jupiter Intelligence’s latest report on the US housing market’s “climate bubble” HERE

Thanks for listening!

Louie Woodall
Editor