A Clear Path to Carbon Neutral

The Global Emissions Offset™ is a new way to trade carbon. The GEO® provides companies with streamlined ways to meet compliance and voluntary carbon goals and to manage future price risk.

GEO spot and futures markets enable market participants to buy high-quality carbon offsets—without having to evaluate the vast universe of disparate offset projects. That’s because underlying every GEO contract is an offset that meets the stringent eligibility criteria defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization for CORSIA.

The GEO spot contract is traded on the CBL exchange and GEO futures on the CME. Together, the contracts provide liquidity, transparent price discovery, risk transference mechanisms, and a reliable benchmark for the global carbon market.

A Nature-Based Path to Carbon Neutral

The Nature-Based Global Emissions Offset™ (N-GEO®) provides companies with a streamlined way to meet emissions-reductions targets using offsets sourced exclusively from Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) projects. The N-GEO enables market participants to buy high-quality, nature-based offsets without having to evaluate the vast universe of AFOLU projects. Underlying every N-GEO contract is an offset that meets stringent eligibility criteria defined by Verra’s Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards.

Like the GEO, the N-GEO contract is traded on the CBL exchange and provides liquidity, transparent price discovery, and a reliable benchmark for nature-based offsets. The CCB-accredited units underpinning the N-GEO eliminate many of the operational requirements of trading offsets—you can trust that you’re purchasing carefully vetted projects while promoting biodiversity and supporting developing communities.

CCP-Aligned Benchmarks for Technology Credits

Core Global Emissions Offset™ (C-GEO™) contracts provide a streamlined way to trade the energy and renewable (technology) segment of the voluntary carbon market with recent, high-quality credits sourced from the Verra Registry.

Underlying every C-GEO contract is an offset that meets stringent eligibility criteria defined in the CBL Standard Instruments Program, which are consistent with initial Core Carbon Principles (CCP) outlined by the Taskforce for Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets. Trading the C-GEO contracts eliminates many of the operational requirements of trading offsets, because you can trust that you’re purchasing carefully vetted, high-quality projects.

The Definitive Cookstove Offset Benchmark with Vital Co-Benefits

Introducing the Sustainable Development Global Emissions Offset™ (SD-GEO™), part of the CBL GEO product suite. The SD-GEO contract is essential to liquidity and price discovery in the emerging household device market, simplifying the selection process for buyers who can purchase high-quality offsets with assured integrity and validation.

To qualify for SD-GEO status, high-quality cookstove projects must meet at least five of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This ensures that SD-GEO credits have substantial co-benefits in addition to mitigating carbon emissions. Cookstove projects focus on positive impacts to local communities and often include SDGs like No Poverty, Good Health and Well-Being, Gender Equality, Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Climate Action.

The SD-GEO provides the market with a standardised contract that streamlines cookstove-credit transactions from the Verra Registry and Gold Standard registry, without the need to evaluate the vast universe of individual projects. Like the GEO suite, SD-GEO contracts are traded on the CBL exchange and provide liquidity, transparent price discovery, and a reliable benchmark for a key segment of voluntary carbon markets.

Australian Carbon Credit Units

Xpansiv’s Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) trading platform enables live, on-screen trading of generic and project-specific ACCUs as well as facilitation of over-the-counter transactions.

CBL Markets (Australia) Pty Ltd holds an Australian Financial Services Licence (Licence No: 536825) which authorises it to carry on a financial services business to make a market in Australian Carbon Credit Units to wholesale clients.

Xpansiv’s CBL spot trading platform provides efficient execution, transparent price discovery, robust liquidity formation, and reliable post-trade mechanisms, typically found in larger, long-established financial and commodity markets.

CBL’s ACCUs trade on the world’s leading spot trading platform for environmental commodities where hundreds of Australian and global participants trade. ACCUs trade alongside other compliance markets including California Carbon, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) as well as regional and global voluntary markets.