SLR Bolsters Climate Risk Technology With Dual Acquisition of Planetrics and ClimSystems — Launching Enhanced Digital Services
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SLR, the UK-based sustainability-focused consulting firm, has announced the simultaneous acquisition of Planetrics and ClimSystems — two of the market's most advanced climate modelling and analytics platforms — alongside the launch of an enhanced Digital Services offering built on the capabilities of both businesses. The move significantly strengthens SLR's digital climate intelligence capabilities and responds to growing demand from investors, businesses, and public sector organisations seeking to understand and address climate risk and associated value-at-risk with greater accuracy. Together, the two platforms set what SLR describes as a new standard for accuracy, transparency, and usability in climate risk analytics — enabling clients to make investment, planning, and risk decisions with clear financial insight into climate risks and precise visibility into which assets, crops, facilities, or supply chain links are exposed, and how that exposure will evolve over time.
Planetrics — Translating Climate Scenarios Into Financial Metrics
Planetrics, founded in London in 2014, is a leading climate analytics platform that provides financial institutions with advanced scenario modelling to quantify, report, and manage climate-related risks and opportunities. Its flagship product — the PlanetView platform — translates physical and transition risks into clear financial metrics across tens of thousands of assets globally. These metrics cover changes in earnings, asset value shifts, and portfolio-level impacts, supporting risk management, regulatory reporting, stress testing, target-setting, and climate disclosures for banks, insurers, asset owners, asset managers, and corporates. Planetrics was acquired by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in 2021 and was widely trusted by leading financial institutions before SLR's acquisition from McKinsey. The deal marks a significant step in SLR's transition from traditional sustainability consulting toward a more data-intensive, platform-led model — giving SLR direct control over a product already embedded in major financial sector workflows.
ClimSystems — 20 Years of Physical Climate Intelligence
ClimSystems, founded in 2003 and headquartered in New Zealand, brings more than 20 years of market-leading physical climate intelligence to SLR. The firm is an award-winning climate change consulting and technology provider dedicated to science-driven modelling that quantifies how climate-related hazards — including flooding, rainfall shifts, heat, and wildfire — could impact asset values, infrastructure resilience, and supply chain exposure. Its client base spans agriculture, mining, infrastructure, and financial services, with a product suite that includes interactive dashboards integrating with business, risk, and financial oversight functions — enabling rapid-response due diligence and physical climate risk support. The acquisition formalises a strategic partnership that SLR first established with ClimSystems in 2022, giving SLR tighter control over the platform as physical climate risk analytics become an increasingly central part of its digital services proposition.
"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."
— SLR
The Strategic Shift: From Consulting to Platform-Led Climate Intelligence
The dual acquisition is not simply a consulting capacity expansion. It represents SLR's deliberate move into platform-led climate risk analytics — building the digital infrastructure needed to serve investors and corporates at a time when accurate modelling of physical climate risk, transition exposure, and climate-related value-at-risk across assets and portfolios is becoming a regulatory and investment requirement, not just a strategic option. Decision-makers are increasingly focused on understanding precisely how climate risk translates into financial exposure — and the combination of Planetrics (transition and physical scenario modelling at the asset and portfolio level) with ClimSystems (physical hazard modelling at the infrastructure, agricultural, and supply chain level) gives SLR a comprehensive, end-to-end capability that spans both dimensions of climate risk analytics. The enhanced Digital Services offering built on both platforms creates what SLR positions as a powerful foundation for the next generation of climate intelligence — with clients able to make planning and risk decisions with far greater accuracy and confidence than was previously possible from either the consulting or the technology layer alone.
Key Takeaways
- • SLR (UK-based sustainability-focused consulting firm) has simultaneously acquired Planetrics and ClimSystems — two of the market's most advanced climate modelling and analytics platforms — and launched an enhanced Digital Services offering built on both. The move responds to growing demand from investors, businesses, and public sector organisations for greater accuracy in climate risk and value-at-risk analytics. SLR now has 21 acquisitions in total; Planetrics is its most recent (April 2026).
- • Planetrics (founded London 2014; acquired from McKinsey & Company): leading climate analytics platform for financial institutions. PlanetView platform translates physical and transition risks into clear financial metrics across tens of thousands of assets globally — covering earnings changes, asset value shifts, and portfolio-level impacts. Supports risk management, regulatory reporting, stress testing, target-setting, and climate disclosures for banks, insurers, asset owners, asset managers, and corporates.
- • ClimSystems (founded 2003; headquartered New Zealand; SLR strategic partner since 2022; now formalised as full acquisition): 20+ years of market-leading physical climate intelligence. Science-driven modelling of climate hazards — flooding, rainfall shifts, heat, wildfire — quantifying impacts on asset values, infrastructure resilience, and supply chain exposure. Clients: agriculture, mining, infrastructure, financial services. Interactive dashboards integrating with business, risk, and financial oversight functions for rapid-response due diligence and physical climate risk support.
- • What the combined capability covers: Planetrics addresses transition and physical scenario modelling at the asset and portfolio level (financial sector focus); ClimSystems addresses physical hazard modelling at the infrastructure, agricultural, and supply chain level (multi-sector). Together they enable organisations to quantify climate risks, test multiple future scenarios, price risk more accurately, protect asset value, anticipate regulatory shifts, and identify opportunities linked to climate transition and resilience planning.
- • Strategic context: the dual acquisition pushes SLR beyond traditional sustainability consulting into platform-led climate analytics — a more data-intensive model where climate risk intelligence is delivered through proprietary software, not just advisory services. As physical climate risk, transition exposure, and climate-related value-at-risk modelling become regulatory and investment requirements, the combined platform positions SLR to serve the next generation of climate decision-making with accuracy and transparency that standalone consulting or standalone data products cannot match independently.