SLR CEO: Climate Intelligence is Essential for Companies
The climate crisis is driving a fundamental shift in how organisations approach risk management, creating unprecedented demand for data-driven decision-making capabilities.
This evolving landscape could represent a significant growth opportunity for firms that can deliver robust climate intelligence solutions to C-suite leaders grappling with environmental uncertainty.
Climate intelligence, combining advanced data analytics, modelling and strategic foresight, has emerged as a critical service offering for companies seeking to support corporate clients, investors and government bodies.
As extreme weather events intensify and traditional risk models lose relevance, a new market is taking shape around precision climate analytics.
Corporate leaders in energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, real estate and finance are increasingly recognising that climate risk assessment must translate environmental factors like floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and rainfall pattern shifts into quantifiable financial metrics.
This demand for sophisticated analysis tools could reshape how consulting firms position their service portfolios and drive revenue growth.
SLR announces the launch of its enhanced Digital Services following the acquisition of two climate-modelling and analytics platforms: Planetrics and ClimSystems.
The strategic move could position the global environmental consultancy to capture growing market share in the climate intelligence sector, offering clients insights into how environmental change affects operational and financial performance.
"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," says Bradley Andrews, CEO at SLR.
"In this environment, confidence is only possible with robust scientific evidence."
Andrews adds: "For more than 30 years, SLR has been Making Sustainability Happen by combining deep technical expertise, strategic advisory and cuttingāedge digital intelligence to give clients not only clarity and assurance, but scienceābased foresight and insight they can act on."
He continues: "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."
The acquisitions represent a deliberate growth strategy, targeting high-value segments within financial services and infrastructure markets where climate risk modelling has become essential for regulatory compliance and investment decisions.
Strategic value of Planetrics acquisition
The Planetrics acquisition, purchased from McKinsey & Company, brings SLR access to the PlanetView platform, which serves major banks, insurers and asset managers.
The platform converts physical and transition risks into financial metrics, helping institutions assess how climate scenarios may impact earnings, asset values and portfolio performance.
PlanetView's modelling capabilities support regulatory stress tests and disclosures for authorities including the Bank of England and the European Central Bank, featuring in frameworks like the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Beyond compliance applications, the platform provides analytical capabilities for organisations examining how policy or energy transition pathways might influence business outcomes and valuations.
SLR and Planetrics will continue collaborating with McKinsey through an ongoing alliance, which could extend SLR's reach into board-level business transformation consulting, a potentially lucrative market segment where climate considerations increasingly influence corporate strategy.
ClimSystems strengthens service capabilities
SLR's acquisition of ClimSystems adds physical risk assessment capabilities developed over two decades.
Founded in New Zealand, ClimSystems offers expertise in modelling climate hazards across infrastructure, agriculture, mining and financial sectors.
Its analytics suite includes interactive dashboards that quantify asset-level vulnerability to floods, heat stress and evolving climate conditions.
The ClimSystems tools integrate with business and financial oversight functions, enabling decision-makers to visualise hazard exposure, assess supply chain resilience and model crop yield fluctuations using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-aligned climate projections.
The dashboards employ geospatial mapping and multi-year data comparisons, converting complex datasets into accessible intelligence.
For industries dependent on long-term asset performance, this analytical capability could translate into expanded consulting engagements and recurring revenue from ongoing risk monitoring services.
SLR employs more than 5,000 professionals across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, working across the sustainability lifecycle from strategy to project delivery.
The firm combines expertise across more than 50 technical disciplines, serving clients in energy, mining, finance, technology, government, infrastructure and the built environment.
By embedding digital tools and modelling capabilities into its advisory ecosystem, SLR could strengthen its competitive positioning in a market where evidence-based sustainability leadership increasingly influences corporate purchasing decisions.
The dual acquisition strategy suggests confidence that demand for climate intelligence solutions will continue accelerating as regulatory requirements tighten and stakeholder pressure intensifies.