23Nov

Post-COP26 – Reflections on Article 6 Outcomes

23 November ema.cima 0 Comments

Gold Standard has, over the past few years, been preparing for the transition into the Paris Agreement, considering how we can continue to represent the very highest quality of carbon credit available, while supporting and creating new opportunities for project developers and our wider stakeholder community:

08Mar

COMMENT: Blockchain for better: Untangling tokenisation and carbon markets

08 March ema.cima 0 Comments

With the hype around web 3.0, it’s important to be mindful about which decentralised approaches to deploy in carbon markets, and – importantly – how to deploy them. Technology is agnostic toward its ultimate effect. Software can help you shop from your sofa or it can deliver malware that takes down an energy grid.

So it is with tokenisation of carbon credits.

27Aug

Scaling the voluntary carbon market? Let's think bigger.

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At Gold Standard, we are taking steps to respond to new drivers shaping the voluntary carbon market in the new context of the Paris Agreement, the need for science-based mitigation hierarchy as well as the work of the Task Force for Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Market (TSVCM). We are also looking to the longer-term, and the role of markets in helping to achieve the global balance of emissions sinks and sources needed to achieve the goals adopted in Paris.

22Jun

Climate impact claims to crowd in private sector finance

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Given the binary nature of the Kyoto Protocol, under which only developed countries took on emissions limits, a “carbon neutral” target has been a simple way for companies to set ambition and take action outside their boundaries – that is, beyond what would be included in their inventory reporting – and to unlock unique claims.

Today, the picture is more complex and dynamic:

22Jun

Open letter – Feedback by the Gold Standard Foundation to the TSVCM’s Phase II Public Consultation

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1. SCALING THE MARKET AND CURRENT LIMITATIONS IN SCOPE

The core stated aim of the TSVCM is to ‘scale an effective and efficient voluntary carbon market to help meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.’ With the assumption that effective means ‘with integrity and quality’, as stated elsewhere in this and previous documents, we highlight the following key limitations and concerns and then make recommendations regarding how to address each of them, to make these efforts credible.

07May

Corresponding Adjustments not an Unsurmountable Obstacle - Interview with Hugh Salway

07 May ema.cima 0 Comments

Q. The focus of Gold Standard’s recent consultation is how to align with the Paris Agreement. The growth and development of the voluntary market has in the past few decades been largely independent to government frameworks. Why is it important for you to align with the Paris Agreement?

07May

Claims + Credibility: Embracing Diversification to Scale Carbon Markets

07 May ema.cima 0 Comments

If total greenhouse gas emissions in new or updated country plans offer a mere 0.5% reduction, greater ambition is needed from governments to fill this gap. Can a robust voluntary carbon market play an important role in this context?

06Apr

New claims for a new era of private sector carbon finance

06 April claire.willers 0 Comments

Originally published on Carbon Pulse.

Sarah Leugers
Director of Communications, Gold Standard

We’re now in a new policy era that means that credits used to offset and claim carbon neutrality must have corresponding adjustments to give certainty that the fundamental promise of carbon offsetting – that the atmosphere is no worse off – is fulfilled.

23Feb

COMMENT: We’re still in – let’s align the voluntary carbon market with Paris rather than play by our own rules

23 February ema.cima 0 Comments

Originally published on Carbon Pulse - 19 February 2021

27Jan

Task Force to Scale the Voluntary Carbon Market Report

27 January ema.cima 0 Comments

Yet scale on it own is not the marker of success; it must go hand-in-hand with quality.

The key now is to scale voluntary carbon offsetting in the right way, not just to increase the market for its own sake.

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