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Inevitable
Digitizing Environmental Commodities with Xpansiv
Dec 18, 2023
John Melby, CEO at Xpansiv, discusses environmental commodities, registries, commodity marketplaces, and financial incentives for promoting environmental outcomes. Xpansiv operates the largest carbon offset exchange, covering 40% of the voluntary carbon market volumes. They also provide infrastructure for trading various environmental commodities. The podcast covers topics such as offset standards, buyer preferences, standardized contracts, market efficiency, pricing offsets, institutional customer base, traders, voluntary vs compliance markets, double counting prevention, and startup trading strategies.
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- Xpansiv operates the largest carbon offset exchange, covering a significant portion of the voluntary and exchange traded volumes in the world.
- Xpansiv offers standardized offset contracts that enable market efficiency and pricing offsets based on special attributes.
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Expansive: Scaling the Energy Transition through Market Infrastructure
Expansive is a market infrastructure company focused on helping scale the energy transition. They operate the largest registry infrastructure for environmental assets globally, covering carbon offsets, renewable energy certificates, and more. Expansive also operates a spot exchange for carbon offsets, providing price discovery and a platform for trading. They offer data transparency and analysis for the market, including end-of-day pricing and product differentiation. The difference between a registry and a market is clarified, with the registry being a system of record for environmental commodities, while the market provides price discovery and facilitates transactions. Expansive also provides access to their marketplace, connecting buyers and sellers of environmental commodities, and ensuring a streamlined process for transactions.
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