Gold Standard

Driving Climate and Sustainable Development Impact

Drive climate action + Sustainable Development impact within and beyond your value chain

Gold Standard is a world leader in climate, nature, and sustainable development action. Bringing together expertise across value chain interventions, beyond value chain interventions, carbon markets, corporate claims and multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Gold Standard develops assurable mechanisms for delivering critical climate finance and supporting companies in meeting their voluntary and regulatory targets.

 

With increased media attention and regulatory changes, its never been more important for companies to act with integrity and ensure they communicate effectively.

 

Where to start?

Our four part corporate responsibility blog series is a good place to find out:

  • how your organisational net zero goals can fit into global goals. 
  • why your scope 3 targets should evolve over time
  • how your organisation can mitigate reputational risk 

Responsibility guidance documents and frameworks

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

  • Contributing Fairly to Global Net Zero – an initial framework for organisational climate mitigation strategies. The framework details a variety of solutions to help companies meet climate targets and deliver sustainable development impact – both within and beyond value chains.

  • Nature Responsibility Framework a discussion document, designed to helpg companies cut through complexity and navigate rapidly evolving guidance under a single, credible approach. Five key responsibility areas guide users through a set of fundamental principles, actions and recommendations.

Our Contributing Fairly to Global Net Zero - Considerations for credible claims paper, provides practical guidance that enables businesses to credibly and accurately talk about their climate mitigation actions at an organisational performance level.

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