UK climate risk consultancy specialising in coastal hazard assessment, climate impact visualization, and policy-facing scenario development.
Sayers and Partners is a UK-based climate risk consultancy that bridges the gap between climate science and practical decision-making for policy, business, and infrastructure planning. Their work spans two distinct dimensions: translating complex climate modelling outputs into stakeholder-facing narratives and scenario stories, and assessing physical climate hazards — particularly coastal risks such as sea-level rise, flooding, and erosion — for infrastructure and built environment clients. As a specialist SME contributor in large European research consortia, they appear to bring expertise in climate impact communication, risk visualization, and the conversion of scientific data into formats usable by non-specialist audiences. Their participation in both a Europe-wide climate-trade policy project and a dedicated coastal climate services platform confirms a profile that combines technical climate literacy with practical application and communication.
Both RECEIPT and CoCliCo involve risk assessment frameworks — RECEIPT focusing on remote climatic hazards and mitigation/adaptation scenarios under the Paris Agreement, CoCliCo on coastal flood and erosion risk.
CoCliCo (EUR 501,119) is dedicated to sea-level rise, coastal hazard mapping, coastal infrastructure vulnerability, and erosion — their largest and most recent engagement.
RECEIPT explicitly lists 'climate impact visualization' and 'stakeholder driven storylines' as keywords, pointing to a science communication or data presentation role.
RECEIPT examined how remote climatic hazards affect European sectors, sustainability, and trade — an applied policy and economic framing of climate risk.
CoCliCo includes 'adaptation' as a core keyword, suggesting growing involvement in translating hazard data into adaptation strategies for coastal decision-makers.
In their first H2020 project (RECEIPT, started 2019), the focus was broad and policy-oriented — remote climate hazards affecting European trade and economic sectors, Paris Agreement framing, and stakeholder storylines. This is a high-level, cross-cutting view of climate risk as a systemic European challenge. By their second project (CoCliCo, started 2021), the scope narrowed sharply to physical coastal risks: sea-level rise, flood, erosion, and the specific vulnerability of coastal buildings and infrastructure. The shift represents a move from macro-level climate-policy communication toward applied, place-specific hazard assessment with direct infrastructure and planning implications.
They are deepening into applied coastal climate services — a high-demand, growing field driven by EU adaptation mandates and insurance sector needs — suggesting future collaborations will likely centre on physical climate risk for coastal infrastructure, cities, and finance.
Sayers and Partners consistently joins projects as a participant and has never led an H2020 consortium, signalling a specialist contributor model where they provide defined expertise rather than project management capacity. Despite only two projects, they have accumulated 35 unique partners across 12 countries — a sign they operate in large, multi-stakeholder research consortia rather than small bilateral partnerships. This pattern suggests they are valued for a specific, portable skill set that consortium builders actively seek out.
Despite just two projects, Sayers and Partners has built a network of 35 unique partners spanning 12 countries, reflecting participation in large pan-European RIA consortia. Their geographic spread is solidly European, with no evidence of reach beyond the EU/UK context.
Sayers and Partners occupies a narrow but valuable niche: a small UK consultancy that can operate credibly inside large EU climate research consortia, bringing applied climate risk and communication expertise that pure research institutions typically lack. Their combination of policy-level climate framing and physical hazard assessment — spanning trade impacts, coastal vulnerability, and adaptation — makes them a rare generalist-specialist bridge in the climate services space. For consortium builders needing a practitioner voice, a science-to-policy translator, or a coastal risk specialist from the private sector, this firm fills a role that universities and research institutes often cannot.
