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. This gap shows up in two places. For businesses and investors, nature-related risks are still rarely quantified in terms that can inform real decisions. For nature restoration and natural capital projects, the science is often strong but the revenue structures, financial models, and investor materials needed to attract capital have not been built. The methods needed to close either gap are still emerging and rarely available from standard sources.
Our Approach
Ecometry provides advisory 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 investment structuring.
We work from two directions. On the corporate and investor side, we help organisations understand how specific nature and climate risks translate into financial impacts — quantifying exposure, building scenario analyses, and developing the evidence needed to inform strategy, capital allocation, and risk management. On the project developer side, we help nature-based projects and natural capital initiatives turn credible science into a funding proposition: pricing the revenue case, building the financial model, addressing investor risk requirements, and producing the materials that can take a project from concept to capital.
The studio organises its work across five areas:
Nature and climate risk quantification — translating specific environmental risks into financial terms for businesses, asset owners, and investors: exposure analysis, damage functions, scenario modelling, and balance-sheet linkages.
Investment readiness — working with nature-based project developers to structure a fundable proposition: revenue and pricing analysis, financial modelling, risk assessment, and investor-ready materials including screening notes, investment notes, and datarooms.
Method development — building new approaches at the boundary of ecology, risk, and finance, where standard tools don't yet exist.
Prototyping — compact case studies and analytical prototypes that show how complex environmental questions can be quantified and made decision-useful.
Who We Work With
Businesses and supply chain-exposed organisations: Quantitative support for understanding how specific nature and climate risks affect operations, assets, and financial performance — moving beyond broad disclosure narratives toward analysis that can inform real decisions on strategy, risk management, and adaption.
Nature-based project developers, NGOs, and conservation organisations: Investment readiness support for restoration and natural capital projects — from revenue case and funding structure through to financial modelling, risk assessment, and investor materials. For organisations that have the science but need help translating it into something funders can act on.
Asset managers, banks, and investors: Nature- and climate-related risk quantification for portfolio analysis, investment decisions, and regulatory requirements — building the financial evidence needed to act with confidence.
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.
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