Carbon Market Infrastructure

Highest Quality, Worldwide Scope

APX is the leading infrastructure provider for environmental markets in greenhouse gases including carbon commodities. These commodities include emissions allowances and carbon offsets, sometimes called Verified Emission Reductions (VERs), Emission Reduction Units (ERUs), Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), Verified Carbon Units (VCUs), or Carbon Reduction Tons (CRTs). Users of these systems include all key market participants such as project developers, brokers, corporations, NGOs and government organizations.

APX greenhouse gas and carbon market infrastructure systems include:

The Gold Standard Registry

This international greenhouse gas registry provides account holders with an easy-to-use, web-based system that creates, tracks, and enables trading of Gold Standard Voluntary Emissions Reductions (VERs). The registry also serves as the Gold Standard's Clean Development Mechanism/Joint Implementation (CDM/JI) project database to track the certification of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) and Emission Reduction Units (ERUs) for international compliance markets.

Climate Action Reserve

The Reserve provides a web-based platform and account management tool for the registration, serialization, tracking, and retirement of greenhouse gas offsets. Access to The Reserve is available to the public for information on registered projects and to account holders including project developers, retailers, financial services, corporations and policy makers. GHG emission offsets attributable to projects that are verified in accordance with registry protocols can be banked, sold, traded, and/or retired in the voluntary market.

The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) Registry

Now, carbon market participants have a secure, web-based system to create, verify, track, trade and retire Voluntary Carbon Units (VCUs). The APX VCS Registry provides the highest quality transaction and data infrastructure for the voluntary carbon markets. The Registry creates trusted and tradable voluntary offset credits, provides a clear chain of ownership that prevents double-counting, and stimulates investments in emissions reductions and low carbon solutions. Extensive public reports make the solution open and transparent. With more than 2 billion environmental credits under management, the 24/7 APX VCS Registry is powered by the most widely used, highest volume, and technically advanced environmental infrastructure that has been developed over nearly a decade.

VCS Registry Overview