Siccar PointNatural Capital Advisors

Natural capital advisory

Making nature investable.

Siccar Point helps investors, corporates, landowners and public bodies turn nature restoration into projects that capital can back: natural flood management, peatland, saltmarsh and the wider landscape.

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  • Old Red Sandstone, laid down about 370 million years ago in gently tilted beds
  • The unconformity: a gap of some 65 million years in the rock record
  • Silurian greywacke, about 435 million years old, folded until it stands almost upright

Hutton’s Unconformity at Siccar Point, Berwickshire, where James Hutton found his proof of deep time in 1788.

What we do

From a landscape to an investment case

Project preparation

Taking nature restoration projects from good idea to finance-ready: revenue models, buyers, governance and risk.

Nature markets and revenue strategy

Working out who pays for each outcome, from carbon and biodiversity units to contracts with water companies and flood authorities.

Natural capital accounting and nature risk

Measuring and valuing the natural assets an organisation owns or depends on, and the risks it faces if they decline.

Research, policy and strategy

Independent analysis, market design and briefings for boards, public bodies and institutions finding their way into nature finance.

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Nature as infrastructure

Natural assets do work that society already pays for

Forests, wetlands, urban green space and coasts clean water, hold back floods and cool cities. Those services create real benefits and avoid real costs, and that is what makes them investable.

How we build the investment case

Diagram in three columns. Nature-based infrastructure assets (forests, wetlands, urban green, coastal) provide infrastructure services (water quality, flood mitigation, water regulation, temperature regulation, erosion control, coastal protection), which produce socio-economic and environmental benefits such as avoided flood damages, lower disaster recovery costs, carbon sequestration and long-term asset resilience.
Adapted from IISD (2026), The Economic Case for Nature-Based Infrastructure. Open full size

Who we work with

Both sides of the table

Nature finance works when the people who hold land and the people who hold capital can agree on what a project is worth. We work with both.

Institutions and investors

Building their understanding of nature-related risk, natural capital markets and how nature projects are assessed.

Landowners and estates

Weighing new income from carbon, biodiversity and water against farming and existing use.

Public bodies

Local authorities, agencies and combined authorities seeking private finance for flood resilience and nature.

Project developers

NGOs, trusts and partnerships with strong projects that need a route to finance.

“The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.”John Playfair, on visiting Siccar Point with James Hutton, 1788

Why Siccar Point

On a headland on the Berwickshire coast, James Hutton saw that the Earth is endlessly worn down and rebuilt over vast spans of time. He was also a farmer, and a close friend of Adam Smith. He understood that lasting wealth rests on the living systems that renew themselves beneath us.

That idea guides our work.

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