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Landholders can earn income from nature-based projects
Our nature markets offer a good deal for landholders and a great outcome for the environment. They help you earn income for creating and maintaining nature-based projects on your land.
Projects that provide important environmental services such as nutrient reduction, biodiversity gain and natural flood management are in demand from businesses seeking to meet their legal obligations and voluntary commitments. Our market takes care of matching projects and businesses, and ensures you receive fair payment for maintenance over the lifetime of the project.
Nature-based projects can be designed to complement the way you use your land, and integrated alongside food production. We’ll support you with the project whether you are a landowner, tenant or land agent, bringing in experts in specialisms such as ecology to help with design and delivery.
As well as helping you diversify your income, nature-based projects can improve the soil on your land and support pollinators. They also provide a revenue-generating asset for you to pass on to the next generation.
It depends on the market and the project. We operate our markets transparently and publish reports after each market round with information about successful trades.
To see the bids and offers, and the payments made to successful buyers and suppliers, you can download our market settlement reports.
In our markets, you can offer to create or enhance a wide range of nature-based projects. Our experts can help you identify projects that would fit alongside your existing land uses and provide valuable environmental services in your local market.
These can be on any scale, large or small, and could include:
If you’d like to know more about delivering environmental projects on your land to generate income, you can search for a market near you or get in touch with our team.
Our experts can advise and support you with designing and developing a project so that it reaches the certified standard and compliments the way you want to use your land.
This ensures it delivers the environmental services buyers are looking for. Then, supplying your project to the market is simple and straightforward:
We don’t take a percentage of the transactions in our markets. Instead, a fixed fee for our services is included in the amount buyers pay for credits, and these fees are published up-front before each market round. Neither landholders nor buyers pay to participate.
We create high integrity markets that are fair to everyone involved. Our market settlement mechanism, which is based on work led and published by independent experts at the University of Exeter, encourages businesses to submit their best bid for credits and, if your offer is successful, any surplus is shared with you.
Up-front legal agreements, drawn up by leading law firm Osborne Clarke, reduce your legal costs and protect landholders, including ensuring you will still be paid even if a buyer defaults.
Richard Allan participated in our Bristol Avon Catchment Market. He shares his experience of transforming two acres of hard-to-farm land into a mixture of scrub, grassland and wetland.
“Part of the mix of any good farming business is to have a diversity of income. With nature-based projects, you’re not giving anything up but you can create an awful lot more than you have already.”
