Surveying Risk, Building Opportunity
Financial Impacts of Energy, Water and Climate Risks on Real Estate in Asia
by , , , and -This report presents a framework to assess risks associated with energy security, water scarcity, and climate change for the real estate sector in Southeast Asia. It also discusses financial opportunities in the region’s growing green building market.
Key Findings
Executive Summary
Energy insecurity, water scarcity, and climate change pose growing risks for the real estate sector in South and Southeast Asia, yet the connections between these trends and financial impacts are not well understood by analysts, investors, companies, and governments in the region. This report presents a framework to assess risks associated with these trends, and also discusses financial opportunities in the region’s growing green building market. The analysis considers current and planned commercial office buildings in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a particular focus on the Indian market given the large size of its real estate market and data availability. The report’s lessons and the risk framework may also be applied and adapted to other countries and building types. Although other resource scarcity, demographic and/or environmental trends may be relevant to the region’s buildings (for example, air pollution, waste, or ecosystem degradation), the report’s scope extends only to specific aspects of energy insecurity, water scarcity, and climate change as defined in this report.