Our collaborators
We’ve created an ecosystem of expertise to ensure that our markets are robust and rigorously governed, and that landholders have the resources they need to deliver high quality projects. These organisations work closely with our team.
The Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at the University of Exeter created a robust and high-integrity settlement mechanism for EnTrade that can be used to unlock investment in nature.
LEEP worked with EnTrade to design the market, which draws on the work of Nobel prize-winning economist Lloyd Shapley and ensures landholders get fair payments for the projects they deliver, and buyers pay a fair price for the environmental credits the projects generate.
The market settlement process is known as the Lindsay Mechanism, after Dr Luke Lindsay. The mechanism makes it easier for landholders to sell nature-based projects to the market and ensures that landholders can benefit from the different environmental services that their projects deliver. It also makes it easier for businesses to meet their environmental goals by allowing them to bid only for the environmental services that they need. Any surplus created in the market is shared equitably between market participants.
Wheatley Young Partners supported the design, development and implementation of EnTrade’s innovative nature markets for multiple environmental services from nature-based projects.
They were integral in working with the University of Exeter to design the mechanism for EnTrade’s original nature markets (Bristol Avon, Somerset and Solent) and continue to support as new nature markets are launched.
Wheatley Young Partners has developed communications strategies for engaging with farmers and businesses, including building brand identities, websites and communication materials for each nature market. They have supported EnTrade since launch, as well as being champions of nature's recovery as fellows of The Broadway Initiative.
Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines, all involved in planning and designing the future of the built environment. EnTrade joined forces with Arup to leverage their global engineering and sustainable development expertise to deliver our ambition of accelerating private investment in nature recovery.
With Arup’s expertise, EnTrade has launched a new digital market platform, bringing all the market activities into one seamless digital system. It makes it easy for businesses and landholders to trade certified environmental services such as nutrient reduction and biodiversity gain in a fair, efficient and transparent way.
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice, with a simple goal to help clients, people and communities succeed in tomorrow's world. For EnTrade they have combined legal expertise with in-depth sector understanding and insight.
By integrating multi-disciplinary legal expertise from Osborne Clarke together with the EnTrade framework, fair and balanced agreements for parties engaging can be achieved. The ultimate aim of all involved is to support genuine and lasting environmental improvements, while accommodating the commercial realities and challenges faced by all market participants.
In the absence of strict regulations and a formal legal framework, Osborne Clarke’s multi-disciplinary team has helped EnTrade create agreements to use with participants of all nature markets that are fair and balanced, referring to existing principles and standards from government and from industry bodies such as BSI.
Radical IT is a boutique software consultancy founded with a diverse team of experts, all of whom have a shared passion for agile working. The team at Radical developed EnTrade’s ground-breaking digital market platform, where suppliers and buyers can participate in our markets.
With their help, EnTrade is setting the standard for what a well-designed, high-integrity nature market should look like, with digital being at the heart of how markets are scaled up to mobilise the finance needed for nature recovery. Our digital systems are helping to facilitate the integrated delivery of clean energy, water quality improvement and accelerating investment in environmental improvement for people and local communities.
Avon Wildlife Trust is also part of The Wildlife Trusts – a federation of 46 local independent charities working across the UK to create a wilder future. Avon Wildlife Trust covers the four local authority areas of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset. Its mission is to safeguard Avon’s cherished green and blue spaces and to promote the multiple benefits that nature can bring for everyone.
In collaboration with EnTrade, Avon and Wiltshire Wildlife Trusts launched the Bristol Avon Catchment Market in 2022 with the aim to kickstart a market for environmental services from nature-based projects.
The market would provide an ongoing source of revenue for farmers and landholders to support nature’s recovery. It would also provide businesses in the South West with a better way to meet their environmental goals and drive investment in high-integrity, long-term, nature-based projects that deliver a range of environmental services.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts – a federation of 46 local independent charities working across the UK to create a wilder future. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, with its team of ecologists, manage over 40 nature reserves across Wiltshire and Swindon, including wetland, woodland, meadow and chalk downland habitats.
In collaboration with EnTrade, Wiltshire and Avon Wildlife Trusts launched the Bristol Avon Catchment Market in 2022 with the aim to kickstart a market for environmental services from nature-based projects.
The market would provide an ongoing source of revenue for farmers and landholders to support nature’s recovery. It would also provide businesses in the South West with a better way to meet their environmental goals and drive investment in high-integrity, long-term, nature-based projects that deliver a range of environmental services.
Arcadian Ecology and Consulting, a subsidiary of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. offered EnTrade ecological advice for the Solent Nutrient Market Pilot, a test market which ran from 2021 to 2023.
The pilot provided us with valuable insights into the delivery of mitigation projects, successful engagement with farmers, landowners, and local authorities, modelling and mapping, and the design of market mechanisms for trading nutrient credits.
