ION’s Carbon Zero solution is one of a small number of solutions that are currently available for firms to manage their own CO2 emissions obligations and voluntary sustainability targets, or for those that offer sustainability management and procurement services to third parties. I recently spoke with Asher Brawer, Product Manager for Carbon Zero, to learn more. Carbon Zero is built on top of ION’s established Aspect CTRM serving 150+ clients across the commodity industry. For Carbon Zero, Aspects’ SaaS-based trade life-cycle coverage was augmented with the business needs for managing and participating in global environmental markets. Certificate management coverage is said to be comprehensive, offering support for voluntary project-based offsets as well as for both government-backed and purely voluntary and generic offsets from any registry. Trade types like futures, options, and swaps enable effective carbon position and exposure management. “The solution empowers businesses to manage trading risk, pricing, carbon project data, registry operations, and other compliance workflows for a comprehensive overview of positions, market exposure, P&L, cashflow, and outstanding offset requirements — all in real-time,” Asher told me. Currently, Carbon Zero is used by around a dozen customers since its launch last year including smaller traders and hedge funds. It… continue reading