International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits
Buying nature credits with integrity
Return is one part of the decision. IAPB sets out the whole journey a buyer should take, from knowing your impacts to what you are allowed to claim. Click a step to see what it involves.
Runs through every step
Governance & accountability
Owned by the board, open to scrutiny
Step 1 · Your organisation
Nature strategy
Credits belong inside a published nature strategy, not bolted on beside it.
What IAPB asks of buyers
- Assess your impacts and dependencies on nature across operations and supply chains, using approaches aligned with TNFD and SBTN.
- Set specific, measurable nature targets, and have the strategy checked by an independent third party.
- Link every credit purchase to what that assessment found.
Summarised from IAPB publications, October 2024 to November 2025, including the Framework for high-integrity biodiversity credit markets and the High-Level Principles to Guide the Biodiversity Credit Market (2025). This page is a summary, not IAPB guidance.