London, United Kingdom
Abbreviation
ECX
Location
London, United Kingdom
Region
Europe
Group
ICE
Product Types
Emissions, Carbon Credits
The European Climate Exchange (ECX) was Europe's leading exchange for carbon dioxide emission allowances, established in 2005. ECX traded EU Emission Allowances (EUAs) and Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). At its peak, ECX handled approximately 90% of exchange-traded EU carbon market volume. ECX was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2010, and its carbon contracts now trade on ICE Futures Europe as the ICE ECX EUA futures market.
Eurex Exchange, founded in 1998 and owned by Deutsche Börse Group, is one of the world's largest derivatives exchanges. While primarily known for interest rate, equity, and index derivatives, Eurex's commodity segment offers exchange-traded commodity products including agricultural futures, metals, and commodity index derivatives. Eurex operates electronic trading for over 2,000 products and provides clearing and settlement through Eurex Clearing, one of Europe's largest central counterparties. Eurex is co-headquartered in Frankfurt and Zurich.
The Trieste Commodity Exchange (Borsa Merci di Trieste, BMTS) is a regional commodity exchange based in Trieste, Italy. Historically significant during Trieste's era as one of Europe's major Adriatic ports, the exchange has served coffee and agricultural commodity trading for the region. Trieste remains one of Italy's important coffee import hubs, with the exchange providing market infrastructure supporting domestic and regional agri-commodity trade flows.
Climex was a Netherlands-based electronic exchange for trading environmental commodities, particularly EU Emissions Allowances (EUAs), Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), and Emission Reduction Units (ERUs) under the Kyoto Protocol. Founded in the early 2000s to serve growing European carbon markets, Climex was one of the first platforms to provide standardised electronic trading for emission certificates. The platform subsequently wound down or was absorbed as EEX and ICE became the dominant carbon trading venues.
APX-ENDEX was a pan-European energy exchange formed in 2010 through the merger of APX Group (Netherlands/Belgium/UK power) and ENDEX (Dutch and Belgian gas and power derivatives). The combined platform operated day-ahead and intraday power markets for the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, as well as derivative markets for natural gas and CO2 allowances. APX-ENDEX was subsequently absorbed into the EEX Group (Deutsche Börse) following EEX's acquisition, consolidating European power market trading infrastructure.