Expert Voice on Sustainability, Climate Risk, and Insurance Across Real Assets
Dr Sophie Taysom has spoken at major industry events across the UK, Europe, and internationally — including the RICS Building Surveying Conference, the FIABCI World Real Estate Congress in Paris, the ARL annual conference, and the Festival of Place. She is a regular contributor to the Financial Times Sustainable Views platform and has been interviewed by MODUS (the RICS magazine), E&T (the Institution of Engineering and Technology), and Connected Places Catapult. Her speaking topics span climate risk in real estate, ESG regulation, greenwashing, net zero strategy, and the intersection of insurance and asset valuation. She is available for keynotes, panel discussions, media interviews, and expert commentary.
Topics include
- Climate risk as a valuation and insurance problem in real estate
- CSRD and European ESG regulation for real asset firms
- Net zero strategy and decarbonisation in the built environment
- Greenwashing — identification, avoidance, and regulatory risk
- ESG governance for boards and senior leadership
- Social value and the built environment
- Sustainable Real Estate for SMEs
Speaking engagements
- 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?, 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, 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, 2023
- ESG 2.0 and non-financial reporting in the built world, PiLabs, 2023
- No BS in real estate, Festival of Place, 2022
- Real estate and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the District Show, Barcelona, 2022
- Value in real estate: Looking beyond the financials, FIABCI World Real Estate Congress, 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
- 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