UK-based sustainability-focused consulting firm SLR announced today the acquisition of advanced climate-modelling and analytics platforms Planetrics and ClimSystems, alongside the launch of an enhanced Digital Services offering utilizing capabilities from the newly acquired companies.

According to SLR, the announcement comes in response to growing demand from investors and businesses to understand and address climate risk and associated value-at-risk with greater accuracy, with decision-makers increasingly focused on understanding how physical climate impacts such as flooding, shifting rainfall patterns, heat, and wildfire can create new risks and opportunities.

SLR said that the addition of the acquired platforms would enhance its digital climate analytics and modelling capabilities to help organizations to make decisions, price risk more accurately, anticipate regulatory shifts, protect asset value, and uncover new opportunities.

Bradley Andrews, Chief Executive Officer at SLR, said:

“Today marks a major milestone in SLR’s digital journey. With the integration of Planetrics and ClimSystems, we have two of the most advanced climate platforms enabling organisations to quantify climate risks, explore multiple futures, and understand how physical and transition impacts translate into operational outcomes and financial value-at-risk across assets and portfolios.”

Founded in 2014, London-based Planetrics provides advanced modelling of physical and transition climate impacts across a variety of assets, sectors and regions, offering proprietary software to help banks, investors, insurers and corporates quantify and manage climate-related risks and opportunities through customisable scenarios and asset-level insights reflecting real-world policy, technology and market dynamics.

Planetrics was acquired by global management consulting firm McKinsey in 2021. The companies said that McKinsey, Planetrics and SLR will continue to collaborate in serving clients following the transaction.

Sanjay Kalavar and Hemant Ahlawat, co-leaders of McKinsey Sustainability said:

“Since 2021, Planetrics and McKinsey colleagues have worked together to help our clients pursue their net-zero commitments and further an inclusive, sustainable transition. This is mission-critical work at McKinsey, and we look forward to our continued collaboration with Planetrics and SLR.”

ClimSystems, founded in 2003, provides software systems for assessing impacts and adaptation to climate variability and change, enabling science-driven modelling to quantify how climate-related hazards could impact asset values, infrastructure resilience, and supply chain exposure, with a client base spanning agriculture, mining, infrastructure and financial services. The acquisition follows a strategic partnership between ClimSystems and SLR, initiated in 2022.

Andrews added:

“Our clients are navigating a new level of complexity – balancing transition opportunities, physical climate impacts, and the transformation required for long-term risk, resilience, and reward. In this environment, confidence is only possible with robust scientific evidence.”