Environmental Markets Board
Facilitating the operation of high-integrity Environmental Markets in the UK
The Environmental Markets Board Limited has been established to provide and promote independent governance and oversight of high-integrity environmental markets for nature-based solutions that deliver real and additional environmental improvements and aim to result in nature’s recovery.
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.
Latest updates
On 27th February 2026 the Environmental Markets Board was formally established as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee to enable it to promote and provide oversight of environmental markets in the UK.
EnTrade has announced that, having successfully completed its pilot catchment markets, it is in discussions with Arup to take full ownership of the business.
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.
Market oversight
The Board is currently overseeing the following markets: