Quantitative Nature and Climate Insight for Business and Finance
Ecometry is a capability studio at the boundary of research and application. We help businesses, financial institutions, and partner organisations translate nature and climate complexity into clearer financial insight, stronger decisions, and more credible action.
The Challenge
Nature and climate risks are increasingly material to business performance, asset values, supply chains, and investment decisions. Yet most organisations are still working with fragmented datasets, static assessments, and broad narratives that do not show how environmental change translates into financial consequence.
The result is uncertainty without clarity: risks are recognised but not well quantified; opportunities are discussed but not well structured for decision-making. The methods needed to close that gap are still emerging and rarely available from standard sources.
Our Approach
Ecometry develops and applies quantitative methods at the intersection of ecology, risk, and finance. Our work is shaped by the problem at hand — from early-stage framing and capability exploration through to stochastic modelling, applied risk analysis, and embedded technical support.
The studio organises its work across five areas:
Method development — building new approaches at the boundary of ecology, risk, and finance, including nature-related risk quantification, ecosystem-to-balance-sheet linkages, and damage functions under uncertainty.
Demonstrator builds — compact case studies and analytical prototypes that show how complex environmental questions can be quantified and made decision-useful. These are working proofs of capability, not products.
Partnered application — working with organisations that already have clients, mandates, or projects, contributing the specialist quantitative and ecological layer that is hard to build internally.
Education, awareness and transformation support — helping organisations understand, adopt, and act on emerging approaches at the intersection of nature, climate, and finance, through workshops, briefings, and capability-building sessions.
Thought leadership and capability signalling — publishing technical notes, method briefs, and selected commentary to make the capability visible to the right audience.
Who We Work With
Businesses and financial institutions: Quantitative framing of nature- and climate-related questions for strategy, risk, investment, and resilience. Support for organisations that need to move beyond broad disclosure narratives toward more decision-useful analysis.
Partner and specialist organisations: Specialist technical input for consultancies, nature-tech firms, and research teams that need stronger quantitative, ecological, or financial integration within a wider piece of work.
Universities and research groups: Applied and commercial translation for academic teams working on nature, climate, or environmental economics — bridging frontier research with real-world application.
Applied research and innovation collaborations: Support for pilot studies, demonstrators, and emerging method development where organisations want to explore new approaches before committing to larger-scale implementation.
About
Ecometry is an independent UK-based capability studio working at the boundary of research and application in nature, climate, and finance. We partner with businesses, financial institutions, universities, and specialist organisations to develop practical methods, analytical frameworks, and decision-useful insight where standard approaches fall short.
Dr Roger Iles — Founder
Roger brings a background spanning astrophysics, reinsurance and capital modelling, climate risk, and natural capital work across ocean and terrestrial systems. His work sits at the intersection of ecological science, financial risk, and decision-making — an unusual combination that is increasingly in demand as organisations take nature and climate exposure more seriously.
Through Ecometry, he develops quantitative approaches that connect environmental change to financial consequence, and works with partners to apply them in real-world settings.PhD Astrophysics, University College London | Reinsurance solvency and capital modelling, SCOR | Climate risk quantification, Vivid Economics / McKinsey | Ocean Voice, Marine Conservation Society