US regulators remove guidance for voluntary carbon credit derivatives

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn its guidance on how to list voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts. This means there are now no specific rules from the agency on how these financial products should be traded.

For a brief period, the CFTC offered specific advice on how to handle financial products tied to voluntary carbon credits. This guidance aimed to bring some clarity and structure to a new and often confusing market. Now, that clarity is gone, leaving market participants to navigate without official direction.