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Environmental Markets
Environmental markets enable investment to fund vital nature restoration and repair.
Eco-Markets Australia is the first independent nature market administrator in Australia. Our programs maintain global best practice ensuring the highest standards of integrity, governance and transparency. This means investors can be confident the environmental outcomes are real, measurable and independently verified.
Global Momentum to Halt Nature Decline
Australia, along with 195 other countries signed the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework with targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The Framework calls on governments and the private sector to assist with the effective conservation and management of at least 30% of the world’s lands, inland waters, coastal areas and oceans by 2030.
The Role of Environmental Markets
The Framework highlights the important role of environmental markets to achieve financial investment to support the ambitious targets. The interoperable aspects of nature with carbon markets can unlock even greater potential benefits.
Investing in environmental markets
Environmental markets administered by Eco-Markets Australia are mechanisms to invest in the health of our natural capital. There are new obligations on companies to assess their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and nature within their supply chains, and to demonstrate their nature-positive credentials beyond decarbonisation.How Environmental Markets Work
Eco-Markets Australia only administers high-integrity credit markets
Market Integrity Guardrails:
The programs administered by Eco-Markets Australia, use a Standard, accounting methodologies, independent auditing and a Registry to measure and verify pollutant reduction, biodiversity restoration or preservation. Credits are issued when all of the criteria has been met, measured and independent verified.
