Case Studies

Private: Carbon Credits, Allowances and Emissions Reductions

Case Study: The world’s largest platform for a Voluntary Carbon  Market

Carbon Trade Exchange operates the largest exchange platform for voluntary carbon credit projects, enabling environmental finance reach project owners situated all over the globe. CTX has partnered with APX VCS Registry, the world’s largest registry for offset projects and world leading standards/protocols (Verified Carbon Standard and The Gold Standard Foundation amongst others) to ensure the highest quality and standards of service.

Water Allocation, Entitlements, Permits and Credits

Case Study: A dedicated platform for trading water allocations

Australia is a dry continent, prone to drought and bush fire, so naturally it has lead the world in developing innovative policies to save, conserve and otherwise value water. Australia has established the National Water Market where the agricultural sector can buy and sell water access entitlements and allocations.

Renewable Energy Certificates

Case Study: Australia’s Mandatory Renewable Energy Target

Australia has established a national target to increase electricity generation form renewable energy sources. A REC (renewable energy certificate) is equal to 1MWh of electricity generated and is issued by the Clean Energy Regulator to approved renewable energy generators. RECs can be sold to electricity retailers that must surrender a certain percentage of their total sales, creating a secondary revenue stream for renewable electricity generators.