Technical field(s) of expertise: Jason Sali is a biodiversity and natural capital specialist with 30 years of experience spanning forestry, conservation, environmental impact assessment, and corporate sustainability advisory. His technical expertise centres on the assessment and management of nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities across large-scale energy, hydropower and infrastructure projects, with deep practical knowledge of IFC Performance Standard 6, critical habitat assessment, and the full mitigation hierarchy from avoidance through to offset design. He has developed and applied biodiversity screening tools, natural capital accounting frameworks, and Biodiversity Action Plans across more than 20 countries. At the corporate level, he brings specialist knowledge of the international disclosure and target-setting frameworks reshaping how business accounts for nature — including TNFD, SBTN, ESRS E4, IPBES, and UNEP-FI — and has practical experience supporting materiality assessment and mandatory reporting for listed companies. His technical work spans freshwater ecology, avian biodiversity, forest ecosystems, marine and coastal habitats, and e-flow assessment, complemented by expertise in statistical analysis, biodiversity monitoring design, and spatial analysis. He combines this ecological depth with an understanding of environmental markets, biodiversity net gain regulation, nature-based solutions, and the emerging climate-nature nexus as it applies to both project-level and portfolio-level decision-making.