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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Compliance carbon futures (EU ETS, California, RGGI) and voluntary futures.

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient
Gordon Bennett
Managing Director, Utility Markets
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Recent work
Oversees ICE's environmental products and utility markets. ICE is the dominant venue for trading compliance carbon instruments (EUAs, UKAs) and voluntary futures.

Signals the recipient responds to

Organisational context

Positions
ICE's futures contracts set the reference pricing for institutional carbon-market participation.
Active initiatives
EUA, UKA, RGGI, CCA futures; voluntary carbon futures.
Pressures
Institutional-allocator demand for quality-differentiated futures.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: ICE futures-contract delivery specifications requiring proof-pack-equivalent disclosure for voluntary contracts reshape how institutional capital prices the category. Compliance-market reference pricing follows.

Why now: Contract-specification update cycles.

The ask: ICE product-development meeting. Schema-compatibility analysis; compliance-market reference pricing implications.

Venue
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Role
Compliance carbon futures (EU ETS, California, RGGI) and voluntary futures.

The ask

Require proof-pack-equivalent disclosure in futures contract delivery specifications for voluntary contracts.

Why this venue

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is a key venue where per-tonne evidentiary disclosure becomes a priced attribute. A listing-level quality tier, a futures-contract specification, or a settlement-layer integration each produce the same market-design effect: buyers and sellers can discover price on quality. Proof-pack-equipped credits acquire a liquidity and pricing premium; unequipped credits trade at a discount. The market bifurcates — which is what a functioning commodity market is supposed to do.

The co-dependence network

Trellison Institute

Research and methodology.

Carbon capture research →

Artrellion

Policy and stakeholder engagement.

Carbon release arsenal →

LedgerWell

Operational verification.

Carbon business cases →

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