The Voluntary Climate Marketplace
A Marketplace for Voluntary Carbon Offsets
The Voluntary Climate Marketplace (TVCM) offers a broad suite of voluntary carbon offsets on a best-in-class trading platform
Transparent Market Data and Pricing
Streamlined Trading
Best-In-Class Technology
Unrivaled Market Experience
Operated by IncubEx, a leader in developing and designing environmental markets, TVCM elevates the OTC offset market to meet the growing needs of market participants and expand voluntary markets globally.
Trayport’s Joule platform enables participants to place live bids and offers into the market. Joule is a leading global electronic trading solution for energy and other commodity markets.
TVCM Is Designed For:
Project Developers
Brokers
Trading Firms
Companies
Governments
Asset Managers
Trayport’s Joule is a dedicated front-end that connects to:
traders
trading firms
brokers and exchanges
third-party solution providers
TVCM Features
Ability to access a wide range of project types from forestry to renewable energy
Individually defined offsets from across the globe
Transparent pricing and real-time data
Live bids and offers on the Trayport Joule screen
Open access marketplace
Offsets viewable alongside energy and other environmental markets
Streamlined onboarding, payment and back office processes
API integration with Microsoft Excel
Access to trade history
Activity monitors to notify participants of new bids, offers and trades
Access to trade history
API integration
Transparent pricing and real-time data
Carbon Standards Available on TVCM
Voluntary carbon markets rely on several established registries that create the standards used for generating voluntary offset credits. Each offset project is verified by a third-party to ensure that the offsets generated are legitimate. TVCM offers offsets from:
Gold Standard
Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
Climate Action Reserve
American Carbon Registry
WCI ARB
Gold Standard
Climate Action Reserve
American Carbon Registry
Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
WCI ARB
Why Use TVCM?
Simple and Efficient Onboarding Process
Complete the short TVCM application and sign up for Trayport’s Joule screen. In two easy steps you can access the most comprehensive listing of environmental offsets.
Selling offsets? List with TVCM
Buying? Come and see what is available with TVCM
Companies looking to reduce their carbon footprints and meet net zero goals can search and buy offsets across a wide range of project types that may include forestry and land use, renewable energy, waste disposal, energy efficiency and fuel switching, transportation and other projects.
Trade on the platform in real time
Market participants can see bids and offers live during market hours 10am CET to 10pm CET.
Streamlined Trading
TVCM enables participants to place bids and offers on a live market.
FAQs
What types of carbon credits are eligible to be listed?
Contracts are offered based on leading voluntary standards including: Gold Standard, Verified Carbon Standard, Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry, and WCI ARB; these registries are recognized by the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA). Projects under various registries range from renewable energy such as wind, solar and hydro to forestry and avoiding deforestation and others.
How do you trade these markets using the platform?
TVCM is a hybrid market, whereby transactions take place via the Joule platform with final deal execution typically taking place via bilateral contracts. The TVCM streamlined contracting process simplifies the physical settlement and payment, reducing time and cost to transact. Additional details to follow.
What protections are in place for market participants?
TVCM offers voluntary carbon credits from established and verified standards and protocols. The transparent market data pertaining to these bespoke projects allow participants to make more well-informed decisions when transacting in the voluntary carbon markets.
What is a voluntary carbon market?
What are compliance carbon markets?
Compliance carbon markets are established and operated by states, countries and regions. They mandate various compliance entities under the respective programs to reduce their emissions, using a market mechanism commonly referred to as a cap-and-trade structure. Under this framework, carbon allowances are “capped” each year and compliance entities are required to reduce their emissions over time. Any compliance entities that are not able to fulfill their carbon reduction target are able to buy allowances if they are over their allotted levels. Companies that reduce emissions through innovation and efficiencies can sell those allowances. The most mature and established compliance markets are the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Western Climate Initiative (WCI) which includes the California and Quebec markets and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Each of these markets can be traded via regulated futures exchanges such as Nodal Exchange for North American markets and EEX for European carbon. These contracts are NOT offered on TVCM but are tradeable through Joule.
Market Hours
CET/CEST: 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
CST/CDT: 3:00 am - 3:00 pm
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