A key output of the Nature Markets Dialogue Demand Driver work stream, we have launched a Nature Positive Handbook with the Food and Drink Federation.

The Handbook aims to help food and drink manufacturers make early no-regrets investments in nature positivity.

Read the Handbook here.

The Nature Markets Dialogue  submitted a response to the Voluntary Carbon and Nature Markets consultation.

We targeted our responses at consultation questions addressing insetting, high integrity governance and stacking. Our responses continually pointed to the NMD Key Findings and Proposals Paper, arguing that:

• Insetting requires strong oversight
• Assurance and standards are not enough alone
• Legal clarity is crucial
• A statutory governance framework is essential
• Stacking should be enabled, not trialled
• A robust three-level 'additionality test' would remove the need for the limiting 'investment test' that exists in the Carbon Codes

The NMD urges a holistic, legally grounded approach to market governance. Without decisive government action to establish robust, consistent, and enforceable rules, private sector engagement in UK nature markets will remain limited.



Read the response here.

The Nature Markets Dialogue has reached an important milestone with the synthesis of its key findings and the development of a proposal for a nature market governance scheme, following 12 months of discussion and engagement involving a total of 169 people from 147 organisations from across the public, private and third sectors.

This paper follows two Ministerial roundtables and multiple stakeholder workshops and consultations. The first part sets out the key findings of the Dialogue to date including critical governance gaps. Part two sets out a preliminary proposal for a nature market governance framework that seeks to balance the need for oversight with the need to enable nature markets to continue to evolve. 

Read the report here.

The Nature Markets Dialogue was launched in March 2024, a groundbreaking initiative seeking to draw together all stakeholders and changemakers into one dynamic discussion driving the future of these vital markets.

The Dialogue builds on the findings of the 2023 State of UK Nature Markets report, identifying where policy gaps remain and convening the right people and organisations to pursue the solutions.

The Broadway Initiative undertook a comprehensive review of progress made against the Financing Nature Recovery recommendations, drawing on independent analysis and the input of experts from government and across the land-based, corporate and environmental sectors. 

Led by The Broadway Initiative, Finance Earth and the Green Finance Institute, more than 300 industry leaders from the farming, land management, business, finance, and environment sectors contributed to the Financing Nature Recovery Recommendations and Roadmap for scaling up high-integrity markets for nature across the UK.