Voluntary carbon markets poised for growth in 2022

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.

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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.

January 4, 2022

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To meet the soaring demand for voluntary carbon credits, Xpansiv’s CBL Markets launched new emissions trading contracts, doubling its market reach as the VCM expanded this year. CBL Head of Global Carbon Rene Velasquez said that it was a significant year for the global exchange platform with the launch of two new spot contracts—CBL GEO for CORSIA-eligible offsets and CBL N-GEO for Verra-issued forestry credits with a CCB certification.

“We see 2021 as an inflection point for the voluntary carbon market,” Velasquez said in an email. “More than $1 billion of credits were traded, which is a three-fold rise over 2020 and an important milestone to establish market credibility.”

Now, with some of the necessary trading infrastructure in place, Velasquez expects the VCM to scale up further in 2022.