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How EnTrade nature markets work
Our markets bring businesses and landholders together to trade certified environmental services for nature-based projects.
Businesses bid to purchase credits for environmental services to meet their legal and voluntary obligations.
EnTrade operates a transparent, fair and efficient market – applying the settlement rules and certifying projects.
Landholders make offers to supply nature-based projects to the market.
Markets are two-sided. So businesses make bids for the environmental services they need locally, including biodiversity gain and nutrient mitigation. And landholders make offers to deliver and maintain nature-based projects – such as creating woodland or planting cover crops – that provide these services.
See where our markets are driving private investment into nature recovery.
Regulated by the Environmental Markets Board, and underpinned by robust governance frameworks, our nature markets ensure certified environmental services are traded transparently, fairly and efficiently. This simplifies the process and reduces the risk for businesses, landholders and local planning authorities.
A settlement mechanism developed by Professor Luke Lindsay of the University of Exeter and based on the Shapley Value – a Nobel Prize-winning economic concept – ensures any surplus is shared fairly between businesses and landholders. Businesses will never pay more than they bid. If there is a surplus, businesses receive a discount, and landholders receive a bonus on successful offers.
How do we get paid? We charge fixed fees for our services in operating the market, which we publish upfront for every market round. These fees are included in the amount businesses pay for their credits.
To ensure that our markets are rigorously governed, and that landholders have the resources they need to deliver high quality projects, our in-house team collaborates with an established network of specialists.
