Climate and Nature Strategies

Embed climate and nature responsibility within your organisation’s strategy

Gold Standard is a world leader in climate, nature, and sustainable development action. Bringing together expertise across corporate best practice - including value chain interventions; beyond value chain interventions, through Ongoing Emissions Responsibility (OER) strategies; carbon markets; corporate claims and multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Gold Standard develops mechanisms that can be independently assured, helping to deliver critical climate finance and support companies in meeting their voluntary and regulatory targets.

Organisations everywhere are under pressure to move beyond ambition and deliver real climate and nature impacts. Gold Standard can help organisations achieve this mission with the following resources.

We have two frameworks that will help guide your organisation to take effective action for climate and nature.

• Climate Responsibility Framework - Discussion paper on supporting companies to establish and take responsibility for their climate impacts. Including the 4-phase approach to climate leadership. Developed to establish what best practice looks like across all components of corporate climate strategies, it includes alignment with  the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) Corporate Net Zero Standard 2.0,  the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and other key frameworks. The latest version of the framework offers a roadmap to help organisations meet climate targets and deliver sustainable development impact – both within and beyond value chains.
• Nature Responsibility Framework.  This discussion document serves as a single, credible roadmap to help organisations cut through complex, and rapidly evolving, guidance and integrate nature-related impacts directly into sustainability strategies and core decision-making. Five key responsibility areas guide users through a set of fundamental principles with corresponding actions, recommendations and resources aligned with best practice. 

Gold Standard’s Responsible Business Practices webinar series helps organisations set and check their direction so they can act confidently, reduce uncertainty and deliver credible sustainability outcomes. Together, we navigate the evolving landscape of climate and nature action. Participants will learn from experts in the field to hear about the latest trends, case studies, and resources that show what meaningful responsibility looks like in practice.