Accelar has officially launched the Nature Finance Impact Hub, aimed at fostering market confidence in nature-positive initiatives by highlighting their financial and environmental advantages.
As a strategy and sustainability consultancy, Accelar focuses on promoting the clean growth transition. The firm offers expert advisory services and solutions related to green finance, natural capital, decarbonization, climate resilience, and the circular economy.
The new hub addresses the prevailing lack of comparable data on the performance of nature-positive projects. It provides access to benchmarks and data from existing initiatives, utilizing consistent financial and environmental metrics.
Chris Fry, co-founder of Accelar, stated, “The Impact Hub measures how innovative, nature-positive projects can yield a return on investment while delivering significant benefits such as enhanced biodiversity, decarbonization, effective water management, and eco-tourism. Our goal is to foster a momentum that encourages rapid investment growth in nature.”
Recent findings have highlighted the investment gap necessary to achieve critical nature-related objectives both in the UK and internationally. The Finance Gap for UK Nature report estimates that between £44 billion and £97 billion in private investment will be needed—on top of public funding—over the next decade for the UK to achieve its net zero targets.