Jakob Thomä

Jakob Thomä

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Jakob Thomä is a leading global expert on sustainability risks to financial markets. He is the co-Founder and incubator of several sustainability initiatives and companies (2° Investing Initiative, Theia Finance Labs, PACTA, tilt, MyFairMoney). Jakob is Professor in Practice at SOAS, University of London, where he teaches a course on Green Finance, a columnist at Responsible Investor, and the author of multiple books on sustainability and existential risks.

Articles by: Jakob Thomä

A man in the desert looks at the city after the effects of global warming.

'Heat is the final boss. Heat is a different beast': The planetary peril no one will be able to avoid

By Jakob Thomä published

"What will be new about heat deaths is the extent to which the lived environment will become physically uninhabitable for everyone, old and young, middle-aged, healthy and ill."