Gold Standard

Consultation

Gold Standard for Sustainable Urban Development consultation

  • Consultation Period 02 Mar 2017 - 02 Apr 2017
  • Submission Deadline 02 Apr 2017
  • Scope Activity Climate ActionSustainable Cities and Communities

The Gold Standard for Sustainable Urban Development is intended as a pathway to certification within the Gold Standard for the Global Goals for urban projects or programmes. This standard is designed to help urban projects achieve best practice and quantify their climate and development impacts to help attract investments for low carbon development in urban areas by helping authorities and project developers to plan, design, implement, monitor, and quantify the performance of large scale urban projects.  

For this consultation, we are seeking your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions on the technical content of the Requirements for the Gold Standard for Sustainable Urban Development.

We are also holding audience-specific drop-in Question and Answer sessions about our new standard:

Have questions? We’ve provided an expanded set of Frequently Asked Questions regarding Gold Standard for the Global Goals on our website.

How to submit your consultation

The objective is to gain feedback on the technical content of the Requirements for the Gold Standard for Sustainable Urban Development. Please submit your feedback to [email protected]

Consultation documentation

  • Requirements for Gold Standard for Sustainable Urban Development

Reference documentation

  • Annex A - Stakeholder Consultation Guidelines
  • Annex B - Safeguarding Principles
  • Annex C - SDG Assessment Tool
  • Annex D - Governance and Management Systems