The Nature Finance Impact Hub aims to help build market confidence in nature-positive projects by pinpointing their financial and environmental benefits. With new goals for restoring nature and kerbing climate change being discussed at the UN’s biodiversity and climate conferences (COP15 and COP26), significant private capital will need to be invested in nature-based climate solutions alongside public and charitable funding. However, the lack of comparable data about the performance of nature-positive projects remains a barrier to attracting investment and getting new projects off the ground. The new Nature Finance Impact Hub seeks to address this by providing instant access to data and benchmarks from existing projects, using comparable financial and environmental metrics. It has been developed by West Midlands-centred sustainability scaleup Accelar Limited, in collaboration with the UK green finance community. The impact hub is free to use and there’s lots of useful data to check out at the hub if you are developing an innovative nature-positive project or investment programme. They are busy researching and uploading many more and it would also be great to hear from you via impacthub@accelar.co.uk if you have data on nature-positive projects to share. Click here to view the pdf and to learn more about it and to view the press release, click here.
