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Welcome to the Chicago

Climate Futures Exchange

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE®) is a landmark derivatives exchange that currently offers standardized and cleared futures and options contracts on emission allowances and other environmental products. CCFE is a wholly owned subsidiary of CCX. (learn more)

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Futures Contracts

The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) offers Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) futures and options contracts on RGGI carbon dioxide (CO₂) allowances, providing market participants with a low cost, transparent, and standardized platform to hedge against price fluctuations in the RGGI CO2 emissions market. (learn more)

CCFE Event-Linked Futures
(IFEX, IFEX-FLW, IFEX-GCW)

The CCFE IFEX (Insurance Futures Exchange) Event-Linked Futures contract offers market participants a financial instrument to hedge against significant economic damages associated with wind. A contract gives the owner a fixed payout in the event that the economic damages from a particular wind event reach specified threshold values. CCFE offers three distinct IFEX contracts that encompass damages in the entire United States, Florida, and the Gulf Coast region.
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CCFE Carbon Financial Instrument (CFI)
Futures Contracts

The CCFE Carbon Financial Instrument (CFI™) futures contract is based on the Chicago Climate Exchange's greenhouse gas emissions reduction trading program. (learn more)