Advising clients on climate risks for residential transactions

This session will provide practitioners with an understanding of how to interpret climate analysis in environmental searches for their clients and meet the guidance duties. 

It is hosted as part of The Law Society’s Property Week.

Learning objectives

By the end of the session, you will understand how to confidently use the key physical and transition risk analysis and identify any potential issues requiring further investigation by your client. 

Agenda

1. Understanding climate risks
2. The pathway to the guidance
3. How climate analysis is used in environmental searches
4. How to advise your clients in line with the guidance
5. Future considerations
6. Q&A

Speaker

Dominic Tubb, Product Director at Groundsure

Dom has worked with geospatial data for nearly 20 years and has been developing location intelligence products for much of the last 10.

After starting life in technical and analytical roles, he soon got a taste for solving customer problems and switched full-time focus to product management in 2017 – quickly going on to lead the function at Groundsure and soon after at another leading UK proptech business.

He returned to the fold as our Product Director in 2023, and now leads our team of product managers, designers, researchers and data scientists.