A full list of Dr Sophie Taysom’s speaking engagements, interviews, and writing as a UK-based expert on climate risk, insurance, and real assets — including real estate and property — across the built environment.
Speaking engagements
- KEYNOTE – From Risk to Resilience: Climate risk, insurability, and the housing market, The Association of British Insurers, 2026
- From Data to Decision: Bridging the Governance Gap in Climate Risk, Haskoning Twinn Event panel discussion, 2026
- The challenge on insurance pricing and insurability across the housing market, Insurance Institute of Ireland, Contribution to course on climate change and insurance, 2026
- Resilience or Stranded Asset: What Climate Risk Means for Every Reuse Project, Circular Build Conference panel discussion, Architects’ Journal, 2026
- From Sustainable to Regenerative: Impact Finance Across Real Assets, UK Construction Week panel discussion, 2026
- Cities Under Pressure: Roundtable on Climate, Digital Twins & Resilience, LinkedIn Live Panel Discussion, 2026
- UK Parliamentary Roundtable, Presentation on Uninsurable Britain? What Australia, New Zealand, and California can teach us about the forthcoming home insurance challenges, 2026
- EPRA Sustainability Summit, Moderator for a panel on The EU Sustainability Framework: What the Omnibus Simplification actually means for real estate, 2025
- Edge Debate 185 – Urban Climate: How do we connect land value and built form to create liveable cities?, panel discussion, 2025
- ESG and sustainability in the UK and EU contexts, Presentation to a Delegation from Japan to Connected Places Catapult, 2025
- Navigating European ESG requirements – a crucial guide for General Counsel, Trowers & Hamlin, 2025
- Navigating the new European sustainability reporting landscape, Submit.com, 2024
- Climate Resilience Measures: Perspectives from Insurance and Real Estate industries, Evintel’s 2nd Annual UK Real Estate ESG and Data Management Conference, panel discussion, 2024
- Unlocking the Path to Net Zero: Strategies for effective integration of sustainability, RICS Building Surveying Conference, London, 2024
- ESG in Build to Rent: From strategy to practice on governance considerations, ARL annual conference, 2024
- Sustainability for Small and Medium Enterprises, Southwark Chamber of Commerce, 2023
- How to avoid greenwashing in real estate, Re: Women, and The Society of Property Researchers, panel discussion, 2023
- ESG 2.0 and non-financial reporting in the built world, PiLabs, panel discussion, 2023
- No BS in real estate, Festival of Place, panel discussion, 2022
- Real estate and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the District Show, panel discussion, Barcelona, 2022
- Value in real estate: Looking beyond the financials, FIABCI World Real Estate Congress, panel discussion, Paris, 2022
Interviews
- Sophie Taysom – Much more to ESG than box-ticking, Connected Places Catapult, 2024
- 5 minutes with Dr Sophie Taysom, Interview with Collingwood’s Head of Building Products & Construction, Mark Goldsmith, 2024
- Smart Homes for Healthier Ageing, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2023
- Social climbing: How developers can help build equality, MODUS, the magazine from RICS, 2023
- Smart homes offer solutions for seniors ageing in place, E&T, the magazine of The Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2023
Articles & Reports
- The Legibility Problem Across Real Assets: Adaptation and Resilience Finance Without a Shared Language, With P. Schmucki, Resilion. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21915488, August 2026
- The climate insurance question that needs a public answer, Flood Industry, Issue 13, July/August 2026
- Guest editorial: Advancing ESG across the built environment, With S Organ and SJ Wilkinson, International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, Vol. 44 No. 5 pp. 1141–1144, DOI 10.1108/IJBPA-06-2026-288, 2026
- Heatwaves are disrupting valuation assumptions, With Dean Magee, PERE, 2026
- Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment makes the case for financing adaptation, Financial Times Sustainable Views, 2025
- Putting banks and insurers on notice to better manage climate risks, With Dee Korab, Financial Times Sustainable Views, 2025
- It’s time to stop talking about the cost of social value and start talking about the added value, BENews, 2024
- The Urban Canvas – The social value of street art (with Moritz Tonn), The Property Chronicle, 2024
- ESG and taking a ‘retrofit first’ approach, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Getting the finance right for retrofit, The Building Centre, London, 2024
- The Proof is in the Pudding: Staff turnover as a core KPI for ESG, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Why is ESG so complicated? A plea for simplicity, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Climate risk as insurance risk – ESG and materiality, The Property Chronicle, 2023
- Airing the dirty laundry (or greenwash at your peril), The Property Chronicle, 2023
- The ‘S’ of ESG is about more than just planting trees, BENews, 2023
- Delivering ESG through supply chains – It’s complicated, The Property Chronicle, 2023
- Sustainable Surcharge, Facilities Management Journal – FMJ, 2023
- ESG needs to become part of the DNA of new developments, Scottish Construction Now, 2022
- Making ESG Count – The role of proptech, The digital high street: Smart public space, 2021