Bio:
Jasper Sky is a project management consultant who organizes collaborative projects, involving networks of experts, to address technical questions, consider policy options, and develop plausible scenarios for the future evolution of a complex system. His current areas of focus include climate policy and conservation finance.
Jasper is presently a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, part of the School of Geography and Environment. Working with Dr. Mark New, the project’s lead scientist, he is coordinator of the ‘Dangerous Climate Change Assessment Project’ (DanCCAP). DanCCAP is a structured expert elicitation involving teams of climate impacts scientists that aims to answer the questions: What should “dangerous climate change” be taken to mean? How much atmospheric greenhouse gas is too much? DanCCAP’s approach is to address these questions in terms of quantitative risk assessments of levels of climate changes likely to cause specific harms to several major Earth systems: tropical forests, the circumpolar permafrost zone, Arctic ecosystem, coral reefs, major ice sheets, key agro-ecological systems at risk of desiccation as global warming proceeds, and others. DanCCAP will offer guidance to policy-makers on the cumulative 21st-century greenhouse gas emissions budget that should not be exceeded if a high risk of dangerous climate change is to be avoided.
Jasper is also a member of the Climate Bonds Initiative and an advisor on climate finance to the State of the World Forum’s 2020 Climate Leadership campaign.
In the past, Jasper has worked as a consultant to startup companies, performed due diligence on new energy technologies for venture capital firms, and provided environmental policy and land use management consulting services to Canadian governments, politicians and non-government organizations. He is a citizen of Germany and Canada.
Intrests:
e-mail: jaspersky@gmail.com
