Climate scenario analysis: Getting to grips with a post-1.5C world

In this episode of The Responsible Investor Podcast, Jakob Thomä of Theia Finance Labs discusses current thinking around the future of climate change and why investors should build their own forecasts.


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It is now a matter of broad consensus that the world will overshoot its 1.5C temperature goal, but that does not mean there is nothing to be optimistic about, according to climate finance expert Jakob Thomä.

He should know a thing or two about this topic. Thomä led the development of the first climate scenario analysis tool at 2 Degrees Investing Initiative and currently leads a think tank which makes predictions about future climate policy. He is also a professor in practice at SOAS and maintains a popular column here at RI.

He joins the latest episode of The Responsible Investor Podcast to talk about AI, why continued demand for oil might not translate into emissions, and why modelling social factors is “super crazy difficult”.

Khalid Azizuddin (left) and Jakob Thomä

In this episode

Khalid Azizuddin is a senior reporter at Responsible Investor

Jakob Thomä is co-founder and research director at Theia Finance Labs