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

Gold Standard provides clear, actionable guidance and frameworks that enable companies to drive high integrity climate action. To ensure transition from ambition to action, Gold Standard also creates verifiable sustainability impacts that provide assurance to investors, companies, governments, and civil society. We help businesses minimise their negative impacts on the environment and grow into organisations that are supporting our collective journey to global net zero and the sustainable development goals.

Driving Climate and SDG Impact

Leading frameworks, tools and guidance to ensure companies can act credibly on sustainability, free from uncertainty.

Reduce Scope 3 Emissions

Scope 3 principles and reporting guidelines that allow companies make indirect investments throughout their supply chain.

Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM)

Guidance to help companies credibly take responsibility for residual emissions and go beyond their value chain objectives.

Finance Impact at the Landscape Level

Supporting companies to work with public entities, local stakeholders and even competitors to contribute to sustainable impacts both within and beyond their value chains.

Buy Quality Carbon Credits

High quality carbon credits with verified contributions towards at least three of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Discover the Climate and SDG Impact of Projects

The SDG Impact Dashboard offers open access to discover the climate and sustainable development impacts of Gold Standard-certified projects through visualisations. Companies can use the Dashboard to find projects aligned with corporate net zero goals.

Create a Bespoke Climate + Development Investment

Purchase Carbon Credits