Flexible transaction options
Best-in-class settlement
Omnibus custodianship
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2025 Best Carbon Exchange by Environmental Finance VCM Rankings.
Matching
Unlock trading opportunities with access to a global network of counterparties
Access CIX’s trading platform and extensive network to discover counterparties, leveraging market intelligence and risk assessment tools to optimise trade execution.
Transaction
Execute trades through diverse modalities and contract structures
Access flexible transaction structures—from on-exchange trades to spot and forward bilateral agreements. Trade standardised contracts and individually-listed projects via a seamless process, tapping into deeper liquidity pools, as well as enhancing execution efficiency and price discovery.
Settlement
Mitigate counterparty and delivery risks while ensuring timely delivery and payment
✓ Reduce onboarding friction
✓ Flexible settlement terms
✓ Counterparty anonymity
✓ Delivery versus Payment (DvP)
Leverage our best-in-class physical settlement mechanism to accelerate and bolster the efficiency of bilaterally negotiated transactions. CIX facilitates payment, delivery, clearing and settlement on behalf of buyers and sellers, reducing onboarding friction, minimising counterparty risk and enabling swifter execution.
Custody
Hold credits transacted through CIX with our custody-like services
Enhance trading efficiency and liquidity management with CIX as your omnibus custodian, facilitating seamless credit transfers, consolidated holdings, and access to a growing network of registries.
Impactful stories
See how CIX enables efficient trading for traders and intermediaries
Marquis Energy Global firmly believes that to tackle the impending climate crisis we need to act now. We have the tools and the roadmap to achieve global net-zero emissions in less than 30 years, thereby securing a viable future for our children’s children. The CIX platform is one vital tool that will pool the financial resources for companies and organisations to pursue vetted and compliant NCS projects which will benefit the global commons.
Businesses will play a critical role in achieving global net-zero by 2050. Working with CIX ensures that Vertree can continue to support businesses to reach these goals by allowing access to high quality and verified credits. When Vertree invests in projects, we don’t just look at verified emissions reductions – we ensure the projects protect and promote biodiversity, and that local communities gain from the activity.
The opportunity for verified carbon credits to be financed in an efficient and transparent way is essential for climate action.
CIX Exchange
Built with your trading workflows in mind, combining a cleaner interface and smart processes with the core functionalities you already rely on.
✓ Single login
✓ Unified product access
✓ No pre-funding required
✓ Clear trade submissions via the platform
✓ Trade status tracking
Our Products
Explore our standard contracts
CIX CORSIA X
CIX CORSIA Phase 1 X – Global Market (CIX CP1X-GM) is a standard spot contract comprising CORSIA-eligible credits issued by all fully approved ICAO registries for the first compliance phase (2024–2026). Only credits explicitly labelled by approved registries will qualify for contract delivery, ensuring compliance certainty.
CIX ARR X (CAX)
CAX is a global standard contract comprising nature-based removal credits, capturing price trends within the most liquid segments of the ARR market. Projects are curated based on a consistent points matrix that evaluates both positive and negative criteria, ensuring a tight basket that derisks the buying experience.
CIX Cookstoves X (CCX)
CCX is a set of global standard contracts comprising improved cookstoves projects, capturing price trends from key corners of the market. Contracts are segmented by project location (Least Developed Countries and Developing Countries) and methodology (Gold Standard and Verra), reflecting meaningful market attributes.
CIX Nature X (CNX)
CNX is a global standard spot contract representing a curated delivery basket of large, well-established and globally accepted REDD+ projects. CNX is actively curated based on size, recognition, trading activity and absence of non-standard project characteristics to alleviate market concerns over project delivery risk.
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