Roberto Spacey Martín

Roberto Spacey Martín is the Resilience Alignment Lead at Earth Capital Nexus at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. His research focuses on making existing financial flows more resilient to environmental change. Roberto is an expert on combining geospatial and textual analysis for enhanced climate- and nature-related risk assessment. He has also published research on transition plans, corporate disclosures, adaptation taxonomies, the impacts of climate change on central banks, nature-related risk assessment methodologies, and other related areas.

Most prominently, Roberto developed the first company benchmark on adaptation and resilience – the Corporate Resilience Alignment Benchmark. The methodology is being surfaced as an open-access tool, ResilienceArc, to be launched at 2026 London Climate Action Week.

Background

Roberto has been working on sustainable finance for over six years. Most recently, he worked with Prof Nicola Ranger at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and the Resilient Planet Finance Lab. Prior to that, Roberto worked with the Palladium Group as a technical consultant on multiple climate finance programmes, including the UK PACT programme.

Roberto holds a Distinction from the University of Oxford’s MSc in Environmental Change and Management, and is currently PhD candidate there, integrating environmental change into credit risk models.

Research interests

• Sustainable finance
• Adaptation and resilience finance
• Climate- and nature-related financial risk
• Climate applications of LLMs
• Systemic resilience
• Sustainable development