Overview

We have designed a project-level standard that can be adopted by UK Nature Markets 'Schemes and Codes', for compliance with BSI Flex 705 Community Engagement & Inclusion.

The purpose of the standard is to provide project developers a reliable and value-adding approach to working with communities on the project design.

To align with our Community Inclusion Standard (CIS), project developers are encouraged to follow the our Best Practice Guide.

This guide is helpful to structure activity that might pre-date any decision to register the project under a BSI Compliant UK Scheme or Code.

In fact, such early application of our guide is encouraged, given that any such decisions would ideally involve and be guided by the community.

For UK Nature Markets 'Schemes and Codes', we are encouraging them to voluntarily adopt our Certification Criteria, which is available for them to utilise, under open source, Creative Commons licensing arrangements.