The news is filled with stories on climate change, even when that isn't the main topic. Massive flooding in Puerto Rico and a heavy storm battering the Alaskan coastline, for example.

Then there's blazing heat in the summer and people wondering what the winter will be like.

"Climate warming is currently affecting the U.S. commercial real estate market in profound ways; it is associated with sea-level rise, chronic flooding, more intense wildfires, increased energy load on urban assets and city power grids, accelerated asset degradation, air quality reduction and changing population migration patterns," says Cushman & Wakefield in a recent look at real estate's environmental performance.

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