What’s the difference between Gold Standard and Gold Standard for the Global Goals?

Gold Standard is the commonly used name of our organisation, The Gold Standard Foundation. 

Gold Standard was originally established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and contributed to sustainable development.

Since 2003 our scope has broadened to accelerate progress toward climate security and sustainable development for all by catalysing finance and maximising its impact.

Gold Standard for the Global Goals is the name of our scheme – a set of rules and requirements which allow climate and development initiatives to quantify, certify and maximise their impacts toward climate security and sustainable development. Certification against the standard provides the confidence that these results are measured and verified, enabling credible impact reporting.