Join us for our first Article 6 webinars of 2023 on Feb 23 ! This session will bring together experts working on pioneering ways to use and support the use of Article 6 to deliver higher levels of investment, ambition, and integrity. Register here: teams.microsoft.com/registration/a…

.Carlos Manuel Rodriguez opening the first #OneForestSummit innovative financing session highlights technical analysis of new Global Environment Facility (GEF) report & how it can help look to the future to tackle #biodiversity & #climate threats

Margaret Kim CEO Gold Standard highlighted importance of creating an enabling environment for private sector “we won’t scale until we get right balance of supply and demand” #OneForestSummit

Gold Standard's Hugh Salway was in Korea this week to attend a seminar co-organised by the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Climate Change Centre and discuss the voluntary carbon market. Read more about the Climate Change Centre here: climatechangecenter.kr/eng/

Gold Standard is #hiring! Do you have a technical background in Energy, Land use and forests (LUF), or quality assurance? Join us to put your skills into practice and have a tangible impact on sustainable development projects all over the world 🌏 goldstandard.bamboohr.com/careers

Gold Standard signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Benin! 🇧🇯 Last week, Gold Standard CEO Margaret N. Kim met with the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Benin to commemorate their collaboration. Read the highlights of the visit👇

La semaine dernière, j'ai échangé avec Margaret N. Kim, CEO de Gold Standard, sur la transformation écologique et durable de l'économie béninoise. Agissons pour dévoiler le potentiel du marché carbone dans la sous-région. 🌍🌱 #ChangementClimatique

According to the latest IPCC report, the number one solution for climate change mitigation is to retire coal plants. Today, Gold Standard released a Coal Decommissioning Methodology Concept that outlines how to efficiently and fairly face this challenge👉 goldstandard.org/blog-item/powe…

Call for consultation feedback! Last week, we launched a new methodology for the early phase-out of coal-fired thermal power plants. We are now seeking views and comments on this methodology. Closing date: 22 April Share your input here 👉 goldstandard.org/our-work/innov…

The IC-VCM Core Carbon Principles, released today, consolidate existing market standards but don’t raise the bar for ambition or quality. They could have gone further, particularly on Sustainable Development, where we should demand quantitative evidence of impact.

Gold Standard is proud to have market-leading safeguarding principles. But we never rest on our laurels. Last week, we updated our guidelines to further strengthen our safeguards for core principles. The public consultation is open until 27 April 👉 goldstandard.org/our-work/innov…

By purchasing Gold Standard-certified carbon credits through this new app, players on the ATP tour will be directly funding climate change projects that not only reduce carbon emissions, but also bring other verified benefits to communities that need it most.

The stage is set for our Grow to Zero conference! First up is our CEO Margaret N. Kim who will talk about what Gold Standard and our stakeholders have achieved and our future plans, followed by Luiz Fernando do Amaral from Science Based Targets initiative.

1/8 🧵Exciting news! The The Subnational Climate Fund has become the first-ever fund to achieve Design Certification under our Gold Standard for the Global Goals. This is a significant milestone in our mission to ensure impactful and transparent investments in sustainability.🌍

It was standing room only at our co-hosted event with ICVCM (inactive) and #ACMI at Africa Climate Summit today. Thank you to our esteemed panel and speakers who discussed the need for clarity, communities and capacity in order to scale VCMs. #ACS Margaret N. Kim

🌍 At a #AfricaCarbonMarketsInitiative Ministerial Roundtable during #AfricaClimateWeek, Gold Standard CEO Margaret N. Kim highlighted: "Of 3,000 of our projects, 41% are in Africa. And that's just gold standard alone."

To mark Africa Climate Week, Gold Standard CEO Margaret N. Kim co-authored a blog with Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. 1/7🧵

Gold Standard has submitted programme-level information to ICVCM (inactive), becoming the first major standard to do so. The ICVCM publishes the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), which set a benchmark to identify high-quality carbon credits and ensure they have a verifiable impact. 1/2🧵

Gold Standard has designated the first issued credits authorised under Article 6 for use in the voluntary carbon market, a pioneering milestone in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Join us at #COP28 to explore how sustainability standards drive climate action in forest, land, and agriculture sectors 🌍🌾 📺The event will be streamed; we'll share the link here.