Willis Towers Watson acquires Acclimatise

WTW acquired Acclimatise Group to see it join the Willis Towers Watson’s Climate and Resilience Hub.

“Climate change risk is fast becoming a central part of government, corporate and financial decision making and planning. Meeting growing client demand will require increasingly sophisticated approaches to climate risk assessment and management. This is why I’m hugely excited by the potential that Willis Towers Watsons’ acquisition of Acclimatise brings. I am very proud of Acclimatise’s achievements and our staff over its sixteen-year history – from kitchen table to a market leader – and am confident that combining with the Climate and Resilience Hub is the right move to ensure we can amplify the impact of our work.” – Acclimatise CEO, John Firth.

“By combining Acclimatise’s market-leading climate modelling and adaptation capabilities with Willis Towers Watsons’s deep experience in natural catastrophe modelling, risk management, re/insurance and investment markets we have a unique range of expertise to help clients manage climate exposures, seize adaptation opportunities and build more resilient societies and economies.” – Rowan Douglas, Head of the CRH.

The deal comes at a time where there is significant momentum behind climate risk services for corporates, Governments and the financial services sector. In recent years, WTW has increasingly mainstreamed climate risk across its business segments. John Haley, CEO Willis Towers Watson, said that the acquisition “is very much in line with our ambition to help clients navigate an increasingly complex world and to achieve climate resilience through the provision of market-leading solutions. Acclimatise’s capabilities and proven success in the area of climate risk, provide significant opportunities for us going forward. I am excited about what this means for Willis Towers Watson.”