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23Nov

Gold Standard and Landscape Finance Lab announce collaboration to scale up finance for sustainable landscapes

 

"Gold Standard and the Landscape Finance Lab have worked together for many years to address best practice in identification, measurement, management and valuation of SDG impact,” said Felicity Spors, Head of Sustainable Finance at Gold Standard. “We look forward to working more closely together to drive investments where they are most needed to support holistic approaches to achieving SDG impact and supply chain decarbonisation in a collective way,”

18Oct

Gold Standard spin-off SustainCERT secures $10 million in series A capital

Having been the founder and major shareholder, Gold Standard is delighted that the mission-driven organisation it incubated has secured this investment that allows it to expand its efforts to create a 'race to the top' for credible impact certification. 

26May

Request for Proposals: Co-develop new methodology for efficient Nitrogen fertiliser

 
To help address the problem of N2O emissions in the land-based agriculture Gold Standard intends to develop a methodology for reduced/avoided nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the management of Nitrogen-based fertilisers in agricultural activities. The proposed scope of methodology includes the following activities:

24Aug

Sustainability standards join forces to scale climate impact

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – 25 August 2020: With increasing demand for more sustainable, climate-friendly goods and services, ISEAL member standards are collaborating with Gold Standard to define common practices to calculate carbon reductions and sequestration that companies can easily report against their Science Based Targets or other climate performance objectives.

06Apr

Supporting stakeholders through the coronavirus crisis

Our Technical Advisory Committee has approved measures that can be adopted by projects to ensure that they are not adversely impacted during the duration of this crisis, while still maintaining credibility and rigour. This guidance is based on a project’s status, commitments and on-ground circumstances and provides alternatives for:

25Mar

Preety M. Bhandari joins Gold Standard Board of Directors

Ms. Bhandari is the Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) at ADB and also serves as Chief of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management thematic group. She is responsible for providing policy and strategic direction to ADB’s initiatives on climate change and disaster risk management, including mobilizing concessional financing from multilateral funds such as the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

27Feb

Scaling carbon removals + launch of Soil Organic Carbon Framework Methodology

This expansion starts today. We are delighted to announce the launch of our Soil Organic Carbon Framework Methodology>>  for carbon credit issuance as well as a project-ready Improved Tillage Practices module>>, the first activity-specific module under its banner.

27Feb

Gold Standard is member of NDC Partnership

The NDC Partnership is a global coalition of countries and institutions collaborating to drive transformational climate action through sustainable development based Nationally Determined Contributions (or NDCs) – each country's strategy to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions and build resiliency against the negative effects of a changing climate.