EnTrade is on the leading edge of environmental market design and operation. Our team of experts is well placed to share key insights about the role that well-designed, high-integrity markets can play in helping businesses to meet their environmental goals and landholders to secure a sustainable income stream from projects that restore nature.
The online application process for Anglian Water’s Farm Innovation Grant is now open and will run until 30th November 2022. Assessment of the applications will occur in early December 2022 and offers made prior to the New Year.
After a successful pilot with farmers around reservoirs and within key ground water areas last year, Anglian Water are widening the Innovation Grant offer for this Autumn's Round 2.
The Dasgupta Review emphasised the need for a new approach to engaging with our natural environment in order to reverse nature’s decline and make the transition to a sustainable economy.
Despite promises of new and better national policy architecture for protecting and improving our environment, the signs in recent weeks are not looking good.
FWAG East and the Wildlife Trust for BCN are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Cambridgeshire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
FWAG East and EMEC are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Cambridgeshire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Durham Wildlife Trust are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Darlington for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Wildscapes are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across North West Yorkshire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
EnTrade continues to develop a Catchment Market in parts of the River Tone and Parrett catchments,
Wildscapes are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across North East Yorkshire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Durham Wildlife Trust are partnering with Natural England to create ponds County Durham and Darlington for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
FWAG South West are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Somerset for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Since July 2018, EnTrade has supported 25 nature-based solution markets across England which have involved over 5,000 farmers and led to private contracts for land management deals worth over £2 million.
EnTrade is operating a Catchment Market in parts of the River Tone and Parrett catchments (including the Yeo), to improve water quality and biodiversity.
FWAG South West are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across North Somerset and South Gloucestershire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
FWAG South West are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Somerset for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Cheshire East for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Lancashire Wildlife Trust are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Lancashire for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
FWAG East are partnering with Natural England to create ponds across Essex for the conservation of Great Crested Newts.
Natural England have been working with EnTrade to help create ponds across several English local authority areas.
After a window extended by the Covid pandemic, the government has just closed its policy consultation on the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS). We now await the launch of a national pilot before the end of the year.
Many parts of England’s most highly prized and protected water environments are damaged by nitrogen and phosphorus, nutrients released in excess of nature’s needs despite well-managed farming and billions of pounds of investment in sewage works.
Where I grew up in rural Norfolk, the market would come to town every Wednesday. This was a place where people come together to buy and sell pretty much everything. The meat and veg for the Sunday Roast, a second hand copy of some pulp fiction novel or (my own personal favourite) a bag of hard boiled sweets with enough E-numbers to sink a battle ship.
There is nothing quite like empty shelves in the supermarket to remind people of the importance of food production. And, as borders close and international freight becomes restricted our underlying dependency on the British countryside is laid bare.