CBL provides access to the world’s energy and environmental markets. With a vision of bringing efficiency, transparency and liquidity to environmental markets, we connect buyers and sellers around the world to facilitate the secure and seamless trading of products in environmental commodity markets.
H2OX supports efficient, transparent trading of water entitlements and allocations in Australian water markets. By introducing state of the art technology to the sale and purchase of water and associated products, H2OX has streamlined the market, providing independence, efficiency, transparency and 24/7 real-time trading to owners and users of water.
Aviation Carbon Exchange is a partnership between CBL and IATA to provide a marketplace for emissions-compliance obligations under the Carbon Offset Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). CORSIA addresses the increase in total CO2 emissions from international aviation above 2020 levels.
OTX is a leading market-access provider for compulsory stockholding obligations (CSO) tickets—a product related to the oil sector regulation. OTX is rapidly expanding into markets for renewable fuels and renewable-fuel certificates.
Environmental Management Account (EMA) is a comprehensive portfolio-management platform with a unique account structure that makes it easy to consolidate and transact environmental commodities across multiple regulatory regimes, all from one intuitive interface.
The JSE Ventures Carbon Market is a comprehensive marketplace for buying and selling carbon and renewable energy credits via Xpansiv CBL, the largest venue for environmental commodities. The marketplace provides direct access to hundreds of live carbon credit and renewable energy certificates (RECs) on a live marketplace with full depth-of-market view and online order types.
Launched by CME Group, CBL Global Emissions Offset™️ (GEO®) futures trade on the world’s largest carbon offset exchange—Xpansiv market CBL. GEO contracts represent the growing maturity of this industry, creating a benchmark that other contracts can be priced against. GEO contracts are screened by three of the world’s leading carbon registries and represent an internationally … Continued
“It’s a new sector,” says Henrik Hasselknippe, Xpansiv Head of Markets. “There are a number of participants coming in with solutions to problems that are not always there.” Part of global exchange platform CBL, Xpansiv covers 41% of the voluntary carbon market. Last year, 122 million tonnes of carbon were traded through its exchange and … Continued
Henrik Hasselknippe, head of markets at Xpansiv, told Environmental Finance: “Environmental commodities—such as carbon credits and differentiated fuels—represent the environmental impact of a given commodity. In two or three years’ time, I think everyone will have moved away from referring to them as ‘ESG commodities’ and that will just be the way the market views all … Continued
CME Group will extend the range of contracts covered by its CBL Nature-based Global Emissions Offset (N-GEO) futures contract to the year 2027, following an increase in traded volumes in recent months. Liquidity has grown in the futures contract, which is widely seen as the frontrunner to become the VCM’s biggest price benchmark.
“The way that commodities trade now is probably not the way they’re going to trade in the future,” says Ben Stuart, Xpansiv chief commercial officer. “The attributes around their generation, and how they’re produced, are going to have a pricing impact.” This includes the methane emissions associated with the production of natural gas. Xpansiv has … Continued
Globally, companies are driving changes to their emissions profile, both through direct impacts to their operations, but also drawing on mechanisms like the VCM to complement their activities. The VCM has already evolved into a robust market framework that supports the needs of these participants with respect to price transparency, ability to manage risk through … Continued
CBL provides a platform for corporates not keen to spend too much time on paperwork as well as a network of major offset buyers and sellers. It also operates several futures contracts in partnership with CME Group that are increasingly seen as the sector’s benchmark. Several exchanges have created new futures contracts in recent months, … Continued
Xpansiv has onboarded more than 125 participants this year as the market infrastructure platform for environmental commodities expects further growth in carbon offsets and new commodities such as digital fuels. Henrik Hasselknippe, Xpansiv Head of XMarkets, told Markets Media: “For the first time in environmental markets, we offer the full integration of a trading market, registry … Continued
Recently, a new breed of fintechs is exploding in the form of climate fintech. Climate fintechs are platforms that allow companies or users to contribute to the solutions of climate change. Perhaps the biggest and most well known climate fintech platform out there is Xpansiv, a world leading marketplace for carbon credits. Xpansiv’s trading platform … Continued
A powerhouse is being created in the global carbon markets with Xpansiv, a major platform for environmental markets, announcing Thursday it is acquiring Evolution Markets, one of the world’s largest emissions brokerages. The acquisition of Evolution will bolster its already significant presence in the VCM, bringing the broker’s 2,000-strong customer base together with the CBL … Continued