06Jun

How can companies address their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions?

06 June sarah.leugers 0 Comments

In order to keep global temperature increase to well-below 2⁰C and meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement, everyone needs to take bold action to reduce their share of emissions and do so as soon as possible. Companies are responsible for the majority of global emissions and therefore play an integral role in meeting these goals.

29May

Forests: Epicentre of natural and social capital

29 May Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

We intuitively know that forests are good. When I was a kid and I was told to go play outside, the forest was the most intriguing place to explore. Creating trails and forts, finding frogs, climbing trees. As an adult, I’ve deepened my appreciation for forests in hiking, cycling and snowshoeing through the wooded mountain terrain in my adopted home of Switzerland.

28Mar

Gold Standard announces plan to launch new company to mainstream SDG impact certification

28 March Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

With support from strong partners, Gold Standard has made sustainable development mainstream in voluntary carbon markets. To catalyse the change needed to meet the ambitions of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), impact quantification and certification must also become mainstream – from corporate sustainability to impact investing.

24Jan

Quantifying progress toward UN goal to ‘Empower all women and girls’

24 January Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

Geneva, Switzerland, 15 January 2018. Gold Standard has launched a new Gender Equality Framework within its standard ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’ to enable developers and funders of climate protection projects to quantify, certify and maximise contributions to empowering women and girls.

10Jul

New Standard Launched to Accelerate and Measure Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Targets

10 July Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

Geneva, Switzerland, 10 July 2017. Gold Standard today launches Gold Standard for the Global Goals, a new standard to quantify, certify and maximise the contributions of climate and development interventions toward the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

30May

Gold Standard Governance changes

30 May admin 0 Comments

Ana Toni, PhD

Member of the Board for Gold Standard

We are delighted to welcome Ana Toni to Gold Standard’s Board of Directors.

Ana Toni is the Executive Director of Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS) and Co-Founder of GIP (Public Interest Management).

03Apr

UN Climate Change Secretariat and Gold Standard Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals

03 April Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

BONN, Germany, 4 April 2017. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat and the Gold Standard today announced a collaboration to assist organizations, such as corporates, investors, regions, territories and cities, in setting sustainability targets and assessing the sustainable development impacts of their initiatives.

The partnership will build on the standard-setting experience of both organizations in the areas of impact evaluation of climate and sustainable development (SD) actions.

14Feb

Q&A: How Microsoft is driving impacts on the ground

14 February Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

Tamara "TJ" Dicaprio
Sr. Director, Environmental Sustainability
Microsoft Corporation

Can you give us an overview of Microsoft’s climate strategy?

12Jan

Deutsche Post DHL Group's climate protection project the first to be certified under the new Fairtrade Climate Standard

12 January Gabriel Kuettel 0 Comments

Deutsche Post DHL Group's climate protection project in Lesotho is the first initiative to meet the Fairtrade Climate Standard, an innovative scheme developed by Fairtrade, the most widely recognized ethical certification system, and Gold Standard, the leading certification standard for climate and development.

12Nov

Dairy Methodology

12 November Gabriel Kuettel

Agriculture

0 Comments

About 150 million small-scale dairy households—equivalent to 750 million people—are engaged in milk production globally. Many of these smallholder producers live in developing countries, where their activities have a direct bearing not only on the livelihoods of their own families, but also on employment, food security and nutrition for their communities.

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