Decarbonisation in a changing real estate investment landscape Institutional investors have significantly increased their allocation to real estate in recent decades, accompanied by a move from traditional property types like offices to data centers, storage, and healthcare facilities. Real estate accounts for approximately 40% of global CO2 emissions, of which 70% comes from operational energy
Rising Risks, Soaring Costs: How reinsurance markets are influencing home insurance premiums Insurance companies purchase reinsurance to manage the growing number of significant and catastrophic claims caused by climate events. Reinsurance allows insurers to transfer some of their concentrated risks, reducing the financial impact of claims that exceed certain thresholds. While previous studies have explored
Climate risk disclosure at property level significantly influences housing search and buying dynamics Climate change can be considered a large and pervasive threat to property markets across the world. Yet, there is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that individuals are largely unaware of the property risks associated with climate change, like flooding or wildfires.
The cost of climate risk in U.S. real estate markets: The role of insurers The economic costs of large natural disasters, as measured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have grown steadily over recent decades. In the last 10 years, these large disasters cost the U.S. at least $1 trillion in total (see
Focused collaborative engagements can deliver meaningful reductions in the intensity of CO2 emissions What is the impact of investors’ engagement efforts? What makes engagements successful? Do engagements lead to positive cumulative excess returns? Alexander Carlo, Doctoral Candidate at Finance, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, elaborates it in this article. The impact of investors’
