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How EnTrade nature markets work
Our markets bring businesses and landholders together to trade environmental services from certified 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 environmental market rules, certifying and verifying projects.
Landholders make offers to supply nature-based projects to the market.
Our 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.
Overseen by the Environmental Markets Board, who set a robust governance framework, our nature markets ensure environmental services from certified projects are traded transparently, fairly and efficiently. This simplifies the process and reduces the risk for businesses, landholders and local planning authorities.
A matching and surplus allocation mechanism developed by 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.
Our markets ensure that landholders have the resources they need to deliver high quality projects, our in-house team collaborates with an established network of specialists.
