Bristol Avon Catchment Market
The Bristol Avon Catchment Market is a world-leading approach to nature recovery that delivers verified environmental outcomes, secures a good deal for landholders for nature-based projects, and ensures value-for-money for ethical buyers of environmental services.
Local, high-impact, verified projects
The Avon and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trusts will work with landholders so that projects are developed in the right locations, and designed using local knowledge and scientific expertise to maximise environmental benefits.
High-integrity, fair, user-friendly market
The market has been designed by independent experts to secure fair prices for project suppliers and businesses buying environmental credits, and is underpinned by transparent rules, and rigorous standards and processes to ensure market integrity.
Delivering value for landholders, organisations and the environment.
For landholders
The Bristol Avon Catchment Market offers landholders a new way to make money by delivering nature-based projects on their land.
We can help landholders develop nature-based projects that deliver strategic benefits for their local area.
We are keen to work with landholders to develop projects to restore woodland, wetland and grassland in the Bristol Avon Catchment.
By participating in the market, landholders will receive fair payment for the environmental services that their projects deliver.
For businesses
The Bristol Avon Catchment Market provides ethical businesses with a way to drive meaningful nature recovery.
By purchasing credits through the market, businesses can increase the demand for local, verified nature-based projects that can deliver carbon sequestration, increased biodiversity, natural flood risk management and nutrient mitigation.
The market uses an innovative settlement mechanism designed by the University of Exeter to ensure fair payments for environmental credits.