Climate change on earth is very real as temperatures continue to rise higher to create extreme weather conditions. Therefore, it is necessary for real estate owners to ensure they have the right measures set in place to avoid any negative impact from upcoming extreme weather situations. Workers in the insurance industry are keeping a close watch on the changes in weather because certain weather conditions can increase the premiums on insurance plans or change the rules in different regions. There are some risks of climate change that cannot be insured, and in those cases the reinsurer’s approach is very important to primary insurers. Reinsurers will raise the rates for primary insurers as severe weather creates more loss, and then the primary insurers will raise the costs for those who buy insurance like tenants and property owners.

Climate change and severe weather has made it so that real estate investors must really understand the importance of surviving the risks of bad weather by creating a strategy that will decrease losses. Some companies have chosen holistic methods to protect themselves such as climate change related shareholder activism and the possibility of huge lawsuits. There could be less renters in demand for several reasons related to weather including bad storms and floods, heatwaves, wildfires, drought, and water stress. It is also possible for damage to nearby buildings and homes to make it so that tenants cannot access their own building and when this happens, real estate owners must deal with the risk of climate change and severe weather affecting their income even when their own building is protected from extreme weather issues.

Since climate change can pose such huge risks to financial systems all over the world the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created by the Financial Stability Board. The TCFD makes sure climate-related financial information and risks are reported faster and with more information. These bad weather risks are just like any other financial risk and can be disclosed in a company’s profit and loss account. As long as real estate owners and managers understand that they cannot ignore climate risk and instead decide to assess the risk and opportunities with climate data, everyone in the real estate business will be able to build resilience from severe weather troubles and create much better outcomes.