Environmentals Your browser is unsupported Please visit this URL to review a list of supported browsers. ICENYSELOGINWEBICE Solutions Resources Insights About Us ICE GreenTrace™ — Driving confidence in environmental markets. See more Energy/Environmentals Environmentals Connect to a global environmental portfolio to price climate risk Sustainable markets to price climate risk. Where there is risk, there is opportunity. Climate risk mitigation is influencing the energy landscape and requires a price signal for the conservation and cultivation of nature. The energy transition is a long-term phenomenon, underpinned by a market-based economy that can deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions. ICE brings the credibility of the most trusted leader in global energy derivative markets to support the transition to a low-carbon economy. Let's connect CORSIA: Reducing International Aviation Net CO2 Emission Carbon Offsetting And Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is the first global market-based carbon credit scheme targeted at reducing emissions from international aviation. Explore CORSIA Environmental markets What are environmental markets?Environmental markets apply economic principles to environmental scarcity by enabling transparent, market-based price discovery. The atmosphere is the ultimate scarce resource. Economics and markets solve scarcity through transparent price discovery, valuing externalities to transfer risk and allocate capital and promote sustainable outcomes. These markets establish price signals that help participants manage environmental risk, allocate capital efficiently and support long-term sustainability objectives. Why are environmental markets needed?ICE has been a leader in environmental markets for nearly two decades. Today, our environmental markets span Europe and North America — the world’s most liquid environmental markets. Our range of products are integral to valuing externalities and balancing the world’s finite carbon budget to meet a 1.5°C pathway to limit climate change. This is the era of carbonomics. Read EXPLAINER Who uses environmental markets?Corporates subject to carbon cap and trade programs and renewable fuel standards use our markets to meet obligations and manage their risk in a cost-effective way. Market participants can deliver carbon allowances, carbon credits and renewable energy certificates into a range of registries in Europe and North America. A growing number of corporates are signing up for voluntary commitments around the world. This means increasingly diverse stakeholders can use ICE’s markets to offset their carbon liability, invest in green attributes or benchmark their internal cost of carbon. Policy makers rely on price signals from environmental markets to gauge the effectiveness of their programs and ensure desired outcomes — such as driving investment in renewables and the use of less-carbon-intensive fuels. Investors can use the price signals from ICE markets and indices to help assess climate transition risk in their portfolios, and then access liquidity pools for managing risk and allocating capital to benefit from energy transition opportunities. Explore infographic Negative externalities Cap and Trade EU Carbon Allowance (EUA) UK Carbon Allowance (UKA) California Carbon Allowance (CCA) RGGI Carbon Allowance (RGA) Washington State Carbon Allowances (WCA) Global Carbon Index Future (CO2) Positive externalities Carbon Intensity Alberta Emissions Performance Credits (AEPC) Low Carbon Fuel Standard Credits (LCFS) Carbon Credits Alberta Emissions Offsets Futures (AEO) California Carbon Credits (CCO) CORSIA Carbon Credits (CP1) Nature Based Carbon Credits (NBT) Energy Attribute Certificates Renewable Energy Credits (REC) Renewable Identification Number (RIN) Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) Guarantee of Origin (GO) Renewable fuels Biofuels FAME UCOME RME HVO Ethanol SAF Carbon auctions UK Carbon allowance auctions Carbon credit auctions ICE GreenTrace ICE GreenTrace™ is an environmental registry technology service which brings unparalleled financial market infrastructure to support the life-cycle of environmental instruments, including carbon credits, emission allowances and Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs). Explore ICE GreenTrace Fit for 55The Fit for 55 package is a set of proposals to revise EU legislation to help cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 62% by 2030. For many companies, the proposals mean that they will have more carbon tonnes at risk - incentivizing them to seek abatement options that support a path to net zero emissions. Learn more Energy transitionAssess sustainability risks and opportunities with data from the leading provider of environmental markets with access to global & voluntary carbon data, ICE’s sustainable finance data & indices, global renewables and fuels data, and more. Learn more Related insights ICE Alberta TIER Futures ICE NGX introduced the first cleared futures on Alberta's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) regulation. The new contracts let entities buy, sell, and hedge their exposure to the credits and the escalating Alberta TIER fund price. Learn more about the new contracts with our recent webinar replay. 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