Voluntary Emission Reduction (VER)

Gold Standard stands for the best that can be achieved in climate and development projects. Compared to other
standards, our projects feature:

•  Required contributions to a minimum of three Sustainable Development Goals
  
• Required local stakeholder consultation, following gender-sensitive guidelines
• Required environmental and social safeguards
• Exclusion of project types with greater risks and negative impacts (eg, large hydropower projects or fossil fuel switch)
• Greater civil society endorsement from our broad NGO Supporter network

Long-Short-Term Carbon Cycle Conversation (LSTCCC)

​It is the carbon cycle that determines the fact that global warming, climate change, and ocean acidification can never stabilize without our civilization stopping the constant industrial addition of carbon dioxide to atmosphere.

Certified (re)forresting projects requiring

• Additionality
  
• Permanence
• Monitoring and Verification
• Examination of Leakage
• Transparency and Regulations