New European Climate Exchange Record For Screen-Based Trading Volumes 5.4 Million Tonnes Of EUAs And CERs Trade On The ICE Platform

The European Climate Exchange (ECX) recorded its biggest day of screen-based trading volume yesterday, with 5,421,000 tonnes of EUAs and CERs traded on the ICE platform.

Total volume for the day, which included brokered trades in ECX contracts, amounted to over 9 million tonnes of emissions products – 8.4 million of EUAs and 0.7 million tonnes of CERs. In the first 6 days of trading CERs, 3.5 million tonnes have been transacted on ECX / ICE Futures Europe.

Patrick Birley, Chief Executive of ECX, said "We are delighted to see the ever deepening liquidity across our product range. With easy access to screen-based functionality and complete transparency of pricing, more and more organisations are seeing opportunities to trade in environmental assets through ECX. The active screen-based trading, combined with the important brokered market, gives customers a choice of ways to get involved."

ECX contracts are listed and admitted to trading on ICE Futures’ electronic platform. For more information about ECX, please visit www.ecx.eu.