An iwi-led project in the Kaimai Mamaku ranges is helping test how a future nature credit market could work as regulators design the national framework.
Looking to Waikato from Mt Te Aroha in the Kaimai Mamuka Ranges.
What’s at stake? Exporters will face stronger global nature disclosure rules and need credible, verifiable ways to show they are managing nature risk.
Background: The Ministry for the Environment is developing a domestic nature credit market framework, and CreditNature’s accredited method is being tested here for the first time.
Main players: Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, Boffa Miskell and UK based CreditNature are partnering on a pilot across a 260,000 hectare landscape.
New Zealand’s push to build a nature credit market has been given momentum with the launch of a pilot linking an iwi-led restoration programme to CreditNature, a UK company already running accredited nature
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Key points
What’s at stake? Exporters will face stronger global nature disclosure rules and need credible, verifiable ways to show they are managing nature risk.
Background: The Ministry for the Environment is developing a domestic nature credit market framework, and CreditNature’s accredited method is being tested here for the first time.
Main players: Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, Boffa Miskell and UK based CreditNature are partnering on a pilot across a 260,000 hectare landscape.
