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
  • appoints a Market Operator to run the Market, and monitors and enforces their compliance with the Market Rules
  • ensures that  Market Operators maintain the market infrastructures, systems and processes necessary to ensure genuine, lasting and additional environmental improvements, which are robustly verified and transparently documented.
Environmental Markets Board Role Diagram

Latest updates

Meeting outcomes from Meeting 8 (10 June 2024) are now available.

The Environmental Markets Board has provided input into the BSI consultation on BSI Flex 701 Nature markets – Overarching principles and framework – Specification.  Read the letter and submission

Market oversight

The Board is currently overseeing the following markets:






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