Membership Categories

Members: Entities with direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Members make a legally binding commitment to the CCX Emission Reduction Schedule and are subject to annual emissions verification by FINRA. Indirect emissions are an opt-in (learn more).

Registry Participant Members: Entities with direct GHG emissions that establish a CCX Registry account of their emissions and undergo data verification.  Standardized independent third-party data verification is provided by FINRA on an annual or multi-annual basis (learn more).

Associate Members: Office-based businesses or institutions with negligible direct GHG emissions.  Associate Members commit to report and fully offset 100% of indirect emissions associated with energy purchases and business travel from year of entry through 2010 and emissions data are verified by FINRA (learn more).

Offset Providers: Owners of title to qualifying offset projects that sequester, destroy or reduce GHG emissions. Offset Providers register and sell offsets directly on the CCX (learn more).

Offset Aggregators: Entities that serve as the administrative representative, on behalf of offset project owners, of multiple offset-generating projects.  Offset projects involving less than 10,000 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent per year should be registered and sold through an Offset Aggregator (learn more).

Liquidity Providers: Entities or individuals who trade on CCX for purposes other than complying with the CCX Emission Reduction Schedule, such as market makers and proprietary trading groups (learn more).

Exchange Participants: Entities or individuals who purchase Carbon Financial Instrument® (CFI®) contracts and retire them to offset emissions associated with special events or other specified activities (learn more).

 

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To request an application for membership, please contact Member Services:

Local: (312) 253-0634   |   Toll Free:  (800) CCX-4600   |  memberservices(at)chicagoclimatex.com