IFB Flagship Leader, Professor Paul Brereton, will host a Civil Society Forum on Nature Finance on 18-19 March 2026 at Riddle Hall, Queen's University Belfast. Speakers include: Wildlife cinematographer and film maker, Justine Evans; Dr Neil Reid, Queen's University Belfast; Professor Nicola Ranger, London School of Economics.

IFB Leader, Julia McCarthy, is organising a webinar on the 20th February at 3pm. Deep dive: tracking US nature market credit sales and project information will provide perspectives from the US stream and wetland compliance markets, where the federal permitting agencies have maintained an online registry and repository for compensatory mitigation projects for nearly two decades.

IFB Partner, Middlesex University, has launched the Nature + Innovation Accelerator (N+IA), a new programme designed to support companies to become nature positive, and to develop profitable business models leveraging environmental innovations.

The Accelerator is driven by Professor Robyn Owen, Dr Amy Burnett, and IFB Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Dougal Fleming who also co-facilitates the programme.