Gold Standard

We believe in a climate secure world where sustainable development brings life-changing benefits to communities everywhere. As a standards body, we work to ...

In 2003, representatives of environmental and human rights organisations convened in Brussels to discuss their concerns that carbon markets could become a ‘...

Roughly two thirds of our funding comes from the income generated by our certification activities, this pays for our core team. The remaining third comes fr...

Gold Standard's day-to-day activities are run by the Secretariat and overseen by the Governance Board who provide financial oversight and strategic gov...