Environmental Markets Board

Facilitating the operation of high-integrity Environmental Markets in the UK 

The Environmental Markets Board oversees the governance framework for participating Environmental Markets in the UK.


For each participating Environmental Market, the Board:

  • ensures that there is a transparent, fair and efficient set of Market Rules in place
  • authorises a Market Operator to run the Market, and monitors, reports and advises with the aim of securing their compliance with the Market Rules
  • requires that Market Operators maintain the market infrastructures, systems and processes necessary to achieve genuine, lasting and additional environmental improvements, which are robustly verified and transparently documented.
Environmental Markets Board Role Diagram

Latest updates

EnTrade has announced that, having successfully completed its pilot catchment markets, it is in discussions with Arup to take full ownership of the business.


View EnTrade announcement


Additionally, the Environmental Markets Board is currently being established as a separate legal entity to support integrity, transparency and good governance across environmental markets nationwide.


View Environmental Markets Board Statement

The Board has made a submission to the UK Government’s Voluntary Carbon and Nature Markets consultation, supporting a proposal for a new UK governance framework for nature-based ecosystem service markets.



View the submission

Market oversight