AI, Models, and the Limits of Climate Assumptions with Sarah Kapnick

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Dr. Sarah Kapnick about the intersection of AI, climate finance, and the limitations of current models.

We sit down with Dr. Sarah Kapnick at Climate Tech Connect in Washington, D.C. in a conversation covers the time-horizon problem at the heart of climate finance, what the PG&E bankruptcy revealed about the gap between credit models and physical risk, and where AI-generated climate insight ends and hallucination begins. Subscribe to Risk Market News

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Sarah Kapnick

Topics covered

• climate finance
• AI in climate
• credit models
• physical risk
• bankruptcy
• time-horizon problem

Keywords

• climate finance
• AI
• credit models
• physical risk
• PG&E bankruptcy
• time-horizon problem

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Climate Tech Connect, PG&E

Places: Washington, D.C.

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