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Environmental credits to support local nature recovery
Our nature markets enable you to move forward with developments and achieve your environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals by purchasing verified environmental credits.
Our markets comply with market rules set and overseen by the Environmental Markets Board which aim to ensure market integrity and are based on defined local geographies. This means you can be confident the environmental services they provide, such as biodiversity gain and nutrient mitigation, will support local nature recovery close to your development or operations.
You can be sure that the credits comply with regulatory requirements for biodiversity net gain and nutrient neutrality.
Purchase Biodiversity Units to ensure you meet the biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements set out by local planning authorities.
Purchase Nutrient Credits to ensure you meet the nutrient neutrality requirements set out by local planning authorities.
In our nature markets, it’s straightforward to buy environmental credits.
You submit bids for the types of credits you want, and our market takes care of matching that bid with offers from local landholders to undertake nature-based projects, such as creating woodlands or wetlands.
See where our markets are driving private investment into nature recovery.
Because our nature markets comply with market rules set and overseen by the Environmental Markets Board which aim to ensure market integrity, they offer businesses a good deal and create great outcomes for nature.
We don’t charge businesses to participate in a market and we don’t take a cut of the trades. Instead, we charge a set fee for each market round. Our fees are set, approved and published beforehand and we’ll be clear with you about how and when you will need to pay them.
Our team has years of experience in environmental science, corporate sustainability, conservation, policy and regulation. We also collaborate with other leading experts.
All businesses looking to purchase credits through our markets need to pass our ethical buyer test. It’s important to us, and to the landholders who work with us, that your organisation meets our high standards and makes ethical use of credits generated from our markets to meet your voluntary and regulatory obligations.
To give all participants peace of mind, the Environmental Markets Board oversees our markets and sets Market Rules, which aim to ensure market integrity.
Our legally binding contracts with landholders ensure that projects go ahead, and that they’re maintained for the agreed duration – whether that’s a few years or several decades.
