Gold Standard works to create a climate secure world where sustainable growth brings life-changing benefits to communities everywhere. Our role as a standard body is to maximise the impact of climate and development activities.
We design the strongest processes that amplify the impact of efforts to deliver clean energy and water, responsibly manage land and forests, and transform lives of the world’s poor.
We then verify those outcomes, inspiring greater confidence that drives investment to accomplish even more.
We were established in 2003 by WWF and other NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN's CDM also delivered on their dual mandate to foster sustainable development.
