In an emerging marketplace, networks and communities of practice are important to nurture, and contributing expertise to these programs as their design unfolds will help establish transparent, effective and enduring environmental markets.

In addition to working closely with each of our customers to help them implement their programs, Markit Environmental Registry is affiliated to and assists in an advisory capacity a number of networks and partnerships.

We encourage you to get in contact with these programs to learn more about how you can contribute to this building this evolving and important marketplace.

Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) is a partnership of over 40 leading organizations and individuals including companies, governments, conservation experts and financial institutions from around the world seeking to develop principles and methodologies to support best practice in voluntary biodiversity offsets.

Markit is on the BBOP Advisory Committee contributing market and registry expertise to the BBOP dialogue.

For more information click here.

Chesapeake Fund Advisory Committee

The Chesapeake Fund is a new financing tool to help fund the reduction of nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay. Actual nitrogen and phosphorus levels far exceed the regulatory levels and the Fund is implementing a cost effective and competitive tool to facilitate and finance the reduction of these pollutants from Chesapeake Bay.

Markit Environmental Registry is on the Chesapeake Bay Advisory Committee contributing registry expertise to help the Fund properly and transparently track every nitrogen offset it funds in the Chesapeake Bay.

For more information, please click here.

Marketplace for Nature

The Marketplace for Nature is a program initiated by Defenders of Wildlife and managed by a consortium of public and private organizations to establish integrated, ecologically effective, and easily accessible markets for ecosystem services.

The initial focus will be on conservation/restoration sites in the Willamette Basin of Oregon and Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. See here for further information on these projects.

Sales of ecosystem services from these sites will help demonstrate how a multi-credit marketplace will work, and provide opportunities to test methodologies under development to quantify and guarantee the ecological integrity of the projects.

Markit Environmental Registry is registry advisor to the Marketplace for Nature.

For more information see: www.defenders.org/mfn