SLR Acquires Planetrics and ClimSystems to Expand Climate Risk Analytics Across Assets and Portfolios

SLR has acquired climate analytics platforms Planetrics and ClimSystems and launched an expanded Digital Services offering built around the capabilities of both businesses. SLR said the move is intended to meet rising demand from investors and companies that need more accurate modelling of physical climate risk, transition exposure, and climate-related value at risk across assets and portfolios.

The acquisition is important because it pushes SLR further beyond traditional sustainability consulting into platform-led climate analytics. In its announcement, SLR said the combined offering will help organisations quantify climate risks, test multiple future scenarios, price risk more accurately, protect asset value, and identify opportunities linked to climate transition and resilience planning.

 

Planetrics brings asset-level transition and physical risk modelling

 

Planetrics adds a well-established climate-modelling capability with strong relevance for financial institutions and large corporates. McKinsey, which acquired Planetrics in 2021 alongside Vivid Economics, described the platform as helping clients quantify, report, and manage climate risks. SLR now says Planetrics strengthens its ability to model both physical and transition impacts across sectors, regions, assets, and portfolios.

The ownership history also matters. McKinsey confirmed on April 9 that it is transferring ownership of Planetrics to SLR, while stating that McKinsey, Planetrics, and SLR will continue to collaborate in serving clients after the transaction. That suggests SLR is gaining the platform itself, while McKinsey remains commercially connected to parts of the client work around climate and sustainability strategy.

 

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ClimSystems strengthens physical climate intelligence

 

ClimSystems brings a complementary but distinct capability focused on physical climate risk, adaptation, and hazard modelling. SLR said ClimSystems contributes 20 years of market experience in science-driven modelling that helps clients assess how hazards such as flooding, rainfall shifts, heat, and wildfire can affect asset values, infrastructure resilience, and supply chain exposure. SLR also noted that ClimSystems serves clients in sectors including agriculture, mining, infrastructure, and financial services.

This acquisition also formalises an existing relationship. SLR had already announced a strategic partnership and majority shareholding in ClimSystems in July 2022. The April 2026 deal turns that earlier partnership into a full acquisition, giving SLR tighter control over the platform as climate-risk analytics become a more central part of its digital services proposition.

 

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Why the deal matters for the climate services market

 

The larger significance is that climate advisory work is becoming more software-enabled and analytically granular. SLR is responding to a market where clients increasingly want asset-level evidence, portfolio-level scenario testing, and clearer translation of climate risk into operational and financial outcomes. By combining consulting with proprietary modelling platforms, SLR is positioning itself closer to the intersection of sustainability advice, risk analytics, and digital decision support. This is an inference based on SLR’s stated rationale for the acquisitions and the capabilities of the two platforms.

The transaction also reflects a broader shift in the sustainability market. Firms are moving beyond high-level climate strategy into tools that help investors, insurers, banks, and corporates quantify exposure and value at risk with more precision. In that context, SLR’s acquisition of Planetrics and ClimSystems looks less like a simple consulting expansion and more like a step toward a more data-intensive climate risk platform model. This interpretation is an inference grounded in the companies’ published descriptions of the deal.