Gold Standard

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.

Yannick Glemarec
President of Gold Standard
France
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Global leader of Climate & Energy at WWF
Lima, Peru
Matthew Spannagle
Matthew Spannagle
Director, Climate change, Palladium
Australia
Luc Gnacadja
Luc Gnacadja
President of GPS-Dev (Governance & Policies for Sustainable Development)
Benin
Preety M. Bhandari
Senior Advisor, Global Climate Program and the Finance Center, WRI
USA
Veronica Scotti
Chairperson Public Sector Solutions
Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Advisors

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

David Shelmerdine
Deputy Chairman, ClimateWorks Australia
Scott Harder
Water Sub-Committee Chair
Daniel Wiener
Founder and President, ecos and Global Infrastructure Basel
Silke Karcher
European Climate and Energy Policy and New Market Mechanisms, BMUB
Timothy King
Head of Research, Australian Equities Core, Colonial First State

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. 

Dean Thomson
Water Sub-Committee
Kerry Constabile
Energy Sub-Committee Member
Sue Ellen Johnson
TAC LUF
Lawson Henderson
LUF Sub-Committee
Krishnan Kartick
Energy Sub-committee, South Pole
Jessica Wade-Murphy de Jimenez
Energy Sub-Committee, Atmosphere Alternative
Anu Chaudhary
Energy Sub-Committee
Dr. Neil Bird
LUF Sub-Committee
Steve Thorne
Energy Sub-Committee
Tom Owino
Energy Sub-Committee
Dr. Jacqueline Gehrig-Fasel
LUF Sub-Committee Chair & TGC Member
Shigueo Watanabe
Energy Sub-Committee
Sudha Padmanabha
Energy and LUF Sub-Committees
Dr. Tony Knowles
LUF Sub-Committee
Matt Spannagle
Energy Sub-Committee Chair & TGC Member

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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