Gold Standard for the Global Goals is our next-generation standard, designed to accelerate progress toward climate security and sustainable development. The standard enables initiatives to quantify, certify and maximize their impacts toward climate security and the Sustainable Development Goals, while enhanced safeguards, holistic project design, management of trade-offs and local stakeholder engagement ensure Gold Standard continues to deliver the highest levels of environmental and social integrity.

The tool calculates the emission reductions of sanitation activities using SASS Version 1.0 for various scenarios: container-based sanitation, pit latrines, septic tanks, and mixed urban pathways. It can use either default emission factors or factors measured directly for the activity.

Applies to activities that introduce, upgrade or scale up safe sanitation services in communities with inadequate sanitation. It quantifies emission reductions achieved by avoiding methane emissions through the safe containment, emptying, transport, treatment and disposal of human waste. It applies to micro- and small-scale activities.

PACM Fraction of non-renewable biomass tool adopted for implementation in GS4GG projects

G-RESET is Gold Standard’s next-generation, modular renewable energy methodology for quantifying emission reductions from new energy generation, upgrades to existing plants, energy storage, captive renewable supply and virtual power plants. A supporting calculation with worked examples is also provided to support application of the methodology.