UPDATED 05 March 2024

Governance

Gold Standard is a not-for-profit headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, focused on catalysing more ambitious climate action to achieve the global goals through robust standards and verified impacts.

Gold Standard has been independently evaluated against ISEAL’s Codes of Good Practice - a globally-recognised framework for effective, credible sustainability systems. We have recently completed the Assurance Code and Impacts Code independent evaluations. We are the only standard in the voluntary carbon market to achieve this to date. As an ISEAL Community Member, Gold Standard is working to continually improve its system by taking part in ISEAL’s learning, collaboration, and innovation activities.

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Board of Directors

The Gold Standard Board of Directors bring their deep and broad experience across a range of different sectors to provide financial oversight and strategic governance to support our vision and mission.

Senior Advisors

Our senior advisers ensure that our initiatives and programmes gain insights and perspectives from experts in the field.

Technical Governance for Gold Standard for the Global Goals

Gold Standard technical governance is designed to be fully compatible with the ISEAL Alliance Credibility Principles and the standard has been developed, and is continually updated, following a standard setting procedure that complies with the ISEAL Alliance code of best practice for setting Social and Environmental Standards.

Gold Standard Principles of technical governance

The Gold Standard Secretariat, guided by the Technical Governance Committee (TGC), is responsible for the development of all standards under Gold Standard for the Global Goals.

Technical Advisory committee

Our Technical Governance Committee is responsible for ensuring the rigor and integrity in all our work. It's an independent body composed of market specialists that provide expertise, guidance and decisions on methodology approval, rule changes and appeals.

Technical Governance Guiding Principles and Terms of Reference Interested in learning more on our Technical Advisory Committee? View our Guiding Principles.

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