UK Carbon Futures

UK ETS / UKA carbon futures.

Available Variants

/v1/futures/uk-carbon currently has exactly three documented endpoints: base, /historical, and /curve (curve verified live in production 2026-07-22). Do not build against /ohlc, /intraday, /spreads, or /spread-history for UK carbon unless those variants are added by the backend.

The canonical slug is uk-carbon. uka-carbon is not a valid path — contract codes are UKA_FUTURES_*, but the URL slug is uk-carbon.

Endpoints

MethodEndpointDescription
GET/v1/futures/uk-carbonCurrent UK carbon contract prices
GET/v1/futures/uk-carbon/historicalHistorical UK carbon contract data
GET/v1/futures/uk-carbon/curveForward curve with term-structure analysis

Access

Requires futures data access, typically Professional+ or an equivalent enterprise entitlement.

Example

curl "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/futures/uk-carbon" \
  -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "commodity": "UK_CARBON_FUTURES",
  "source": "ICE",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "unit": "tCO2e",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00.000Z",
  "contracts": [
    {
      "contract_month": "2026-12",
      "last_price": 42.15,
      "settlement": 42.08
    }
  ]
}

Historical

curl "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/futures/uk-carbon/historical?from=2026-01-01&to=2026-01-31" \
  -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY"

Forward Curve

Term-structure analysis across all listed UKA contracts, parallel to /v1/futures/eua-carbon/curve.

curl "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/futures/uk-carbon/curve" \
  -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "analysis_date": "2026-07-21",
  "curve_type": "contango",
  "total_contracts": 9,
  "front_month": {
    "contract_month": "2026-07",
    "contract_code": "UKA_FUTURES_2026_07",
    "settlement_price": 60.28,
    "trading_date": "2026-07-21",
    "months_to_expiry": 0
  },
  "back_month": {
    "contract_month": "2029-03",
    "contract_code": "UKA_FUTURES_2029_03",
    "settlement_price": 68.43,
    "trading_date": "2026-07-21",
    "months_to_expiry": 32
  },
  "contracts": [
    {
      "contract_month": "2026-07",
      "contract_code": "UKA_FUTURES_2026_07",
      "settlement_price": 60.28,
      "trading_date": "2026-07-21",
      "months_to_expiry": 0
    }
  ],
  "curve_metrics": {
    "front_month_price": 60.28,
    "back_month_price": 68.43,
    "total_slope": 8.15,
    "slope_percentage": 13.5202,
    "average_price": 63.3956,
    "price_range": 8.15,
    "steepness": 0.242917
  }
}

Prices are in GBP per tonne CO2e. contracts is truncated here for brevity; the live response lists every listed contract month.

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