Climate risk and regulatory change are reshaping real asset values. Most firms are still responding to each piece separately.
The firms best positioned in real assets right now are not the ones producing the most sustainability documentation. They are the ones whose leadership already understands where climate risk, regulatory change, and insurance market dynamics are heading, and what to do about it before the market forces the conversation.
Keyah Consulting is a London and Brussels advisory firm working at the intersection of physical climate risk, insurance market dynamics, and real asset markets, across real estate, property, and infrastructure.
Keyah works with real asset owners and their advisors, institutions and foundations investing in the built environment, insurers, and climate data, analytics, and risk intelligence firms, including insurtechs.
A select few firms have stopped responding to sustainability complexity and started using it as strategic intelligence. They are the first call their clients make — not because they know more regulations, but because they understand the new and emerging business critical issues before anyone else does.
Keyah Consulting was founded by Dr Sophie Taysom. Sophie writes for the Financial Times’ Sustainable Views and PERE, sits on the EU Mission Adaptation Community Roster of Experts, and was keynote speaker at the ABI Conference, ‘From Risk to Resilience’.
Your clients need answers. Most firms deliver documentation.
The pressure hitting your clients right now is coming from every direction simultaneously. They’re not looking for a report — they’re looking for a firm that already understands where this is heading.
- Physical climate risk is now a valuation and insurability question, not a future scenario
- Sustainability regulation is accelerating across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, and your clients’ obligations are changing faster than most firms’ advice
- Insurance markets are withdrawing from geographies and asset types that were considered safe five years ago
- Capital is repricing climate-exposed real assets faster than most advisory firms have updated their guidance
How Keyah works with you
Built Environment & Adaptation Expertise
Technical and strategic input for institutions, foundations, and built environment programmes navigating where adaptation and resilience are heading next: insurance retreat, regulatory direction, and emerging resilience strategy.
Explore built environment expertiseCommercial Translation
Climate and hazards data is only valuable if the people making capital decisions can act on it. Keyah translates technical peril and risk modelling into commercial positioning that climate data, analytics, and modelling firms can put directly in front of their clients.
Explore commercial translationStrategic Advisory & Board Briefings
Getting physical climate risk onto the board and investment committee agenda as a capital allocation decision, not a sustainability update. Applies two proprietary frameworks developed by Dr Sophie Taysom.
The Valuation Gap is the distance between the physical climate risk an asset already carries and what its current valuation reflects. The Adaptation Imperative is the case for addressing physical vulnerability upstream, before it surfaces as an insurance or valuation problem.
Explore strategic advisoryContent Partnerships & Thought Leadership
Co-produced research, strategic amplification, and speaking that positions your firm as the credible voice shaping the conversation on sustainable real assets, rather than commenting on it after the fact.
Explore content partnershipsTestimonials & Clients
Luke McCullogh, Senior Public Policy Manager, Aviva
Sophie supported Aviva’s recent event in the UK Parliament as an international expert on insurance and adaptation. She was instrumental in making the event a success… I would happily recommend Sophie as a speaker where her expertise in international insurance, adaptation and real estate is sought.
Sasha Meyer, Head of Corporate Partnerships, Habitat for Humanity
Sophie conducted a comprehensive analysis of our organization to develop a tailored ESG framework, a range of recommendations…. Her expertise in this field led to a breakthrough in the way that we regard this important topic, setting us up for a new ESG approach internally and externally.
Frequently asked questions
Who does Keyah work with?
Keyah works with three types of clients: real asset owners and their advisors, institutions and foundations investing in the built environment, and climate data and analytics firms. Past clients include The Convive Collective, Trowers & Hamlins, Habitat for Humanity, Hydrock, Connected Places Catapult and Innovate UK.
How do I work with Keyah?
Engagements typically start with a 30-minute strategy call to understand the challenge and scope the right approach. From there, work is structured around one of Keyah’s core services — from board-level strategic advisory to hands-on built environment expertise — depending on what the organisation needs.
Where is Keyah based?
Keyah Consulting is based in London, with an additional presence in Brussels. The firm works with clients across the UK, Europe, and internationally, drawing on a curated network of specialists in both cities.
What is The Valuation Gap?
The Valuation Gap is a proprietary framework developed by Dr Sophie Taysom of Keyah Consulting. It describes the distance between the physical climate risk a real estate asset already carries and what its current valuation reflects. Valuations are lagging indicators. Insurance pricing and availability often move first, showing where risk is already becoming a financial cost. The framework helps boards and investors see that gap before the market closes it for them.
What is The Adaptation Imperative?
The Adaptation Imperative is a proprietary framework developed by Dr Sophie Taysom of Keyah Consulting. It sets out the case for addressing the physical vulnerability of buildings and places upstream, before that vulnerability surfaces as an insurance, lending, or valuation problem. Where The Valuation Gap looks at how markets lag behind risk, The Adaptation Imperative looks at what owners, investors, and policymakers can do to reduce exposure in the first place.
Who founded Keyah Consulting?
Keyah Consulting was founded by Dr Sophie Taysom, who leads the firm as Founder and CEO. Sophie advises on physical climate risk, insurance market dynamics, and real asset markets. She writes for the Financial Times’s Sustainable Views, and PERE, sits on the EU Mission Adaptation Community Roster of Experts, and was keynote speaker at the ABI Conference, ‘From Risk to Resilience’. She also founded the Sustainable Real Estate community on LinkedIn.
What does Keyah Consulting do?
Keyah Consulting is a climate and sustainability advisory firm that helps real asset owners, institutions, and climate data firms navigate climate risk, regulatory change, and insurance market dynamics — across real estate, property, and infrastructure — before the market forces the conversation. Work spans four areas: built environment and adaptation expertise, commercial translation of climate data into business decisions, strategic advisory and board briefings, and content partnerships and thought leadership.