Dr Sophie Taysom

Dr Sophie Taysom is the founder and CEO of Keyah Consulting, a London-based climate and sustainability advisory firm specialising in real estate professional services. She holds a PhD, contributes regularly to the Financial Times Sustainable Views platform, and founded the Sustainable Real Estate LinkedIn group, now approaching 10,000 members. Her work focuses on climate risk, ESG regulation, and the intersection of insurance and asset valuation across UK and European markets.

Sustainability acronyms in Real Estate: A Growing List - Keyah Consulting

Sustainability acronyms in Real Estate: A Growing List

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Sustainability and ESG terminology moves fast, particularly across real assets, where reporting frameworks, emissions standards and regulatory requirements are constantly evolving. This reference covers 60+ of the most common acronyms I encounter when working with clients. The list covers everything from disclosure frameworks and carbon accounting to building certifications. Updated regularly – let me know

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Key Principles of Effective Stakeholder Engagement - Keyah Consulting

Key Principles of Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Real Estate

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Key points I’ve seen the good and the bad of stakeholder engagement in real estate sustainability – from occupiers becoming genuine partners in a net zero programme, to community consultations that descended into conflict and left lasting reputational damage. Having outlined the seven benefits of effective stakeholder engagement and why it’s foundational, I want to

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7 Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement: Why it’s the Foundation of Sustainable Real Estate - Keyah Consulting

7 Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement: Why it’s the Foundation of Sustainable Real Estate

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Key points How many times have you developed a sustainability strategy for your portfolio, only to find that occupiers aren’t on board, investors are asking questions you can’t answer, or local communities are pushing back on a scheme you thought was doing the right thing? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In real estate,

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Key Trends Shaping Real Assets Investment in 2025: Sustainability at an Inflection Point - Keyah Consulting

Key Trends Shaping Investments in 2025: Real Estate Sustainability at an Inflection Point

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Key points As 2025 comes to a close, real estate investors face a fundamentally transformed landscape where topics including adaptation, resilience, and linked to this, insurance, are no longer peripheral but central to investment strategy, risk management, and value creation. Here are the critical trends reshaping our sector: 1. Divergent Regulatory Trajectories Creating Strategic Complexity

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Why Smart Businesses Are Doubling Down on Sustainability and ESG (While Others Walk Away)

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Key points Here’s what nobody’s talking about: while headlines shout about investors retreating from green building commitments and ESG mandates, the savviest players in real estate are quietly using this moment to pull ahead. Why? Because they understand something fundamental – sustainable real estate isn’t just about optics, it’s about asset survival. The real story

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The EU Sustainability Framework: What the Omnibus Simplification Actually Means for Real Estate - Keyah Consulting

The EU Sustainability Framework: What the Omnibus Simplification Actually Means for Real Estate

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“Simplification” sounds promising—until you’re the one trying to implement it. Last week at EPRA’s annual Sustainability Summit, Dr Taysom moderated a panel that cut through the noise around the European Union’s Omnibus Simplification Package (CSRD) and changes to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR). The timing couldn’t have been more relevant, landing the same day

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Looking beyond an insurance fix: Flood risk across Great Britain - Keyah Consulting

Looking beyond an insurance fix: Flood risk across Great Britain

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Key points The Guardian headline is blunt, Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk. Insurers are sounding the alarm. Aviva’s report on which the article is based is clear on where we could be by 2050: The result is that homes and communities could

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A decade on from Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizon’ lecture at Lloyds

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Ten years ago, Mark Carney, the then Governor of the Bank of England, warned us about the Tragedy of the Horizon. He made clear that changes in the climate brings ‘profound implications’ for insurers, our financial institutions, and the wider economy. But when it comes to insurance, many at the household level are living in

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The Great Reinsurance Retreat: Strategic implications for insurance markets and climate adaptation

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Key points Recent Bloomberg analysis reveals a striking development in global reinsurance markets – the world’s 19 largest reinsurers have reduced catastrophe exposure by more than 50%. This isn’t a temporary market correction – it’s a fundamental recalibration of risk appetite driven by accelerating climate-related losses. And it’s worrying. The downstream effects are creating acute

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Dr Taysom at the Edge Debate 185 – Urban Climate: How do we connect land value and built form to create liveable cities?

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On 14th July, Dr Sophie Taysom of Keyah Consulting, was a panellist at the Edge Debate on connecting land value and built form to create livable cities. The Panel was Chaired by Lisa Fairmaner MRTPI, Head of London Plan and Strategic Planning, Greater London Authority, and Moderated by Marialena Nikolopoulou, Kent School of Architecture. Other

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