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.

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. 

Quantifies emission reductions from activities providing first-time or expanded access to distributed renewable electricity, mechanical energy and thermal energy services beyond cooking.

This methodology is applicable to activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas (GHG)-emissions from hydrogen production by replacing fossil-fuel-intensive conventional processes with low-carbon alternatives. It applies to newly built (greenfield) or retrofitted (brownfield) industrial facilities that produce green hydrogen via water electrolysis, powered exclusively or primarily by renewable electricity.

This document provides the framework and procedures for transitioning legacy Gold Standard for the Global Goals (GS4GG) activities to Paris Agreement Aligned (PAA) methodologies. It establishes standardised validation and verification requirements, cross-cutting transition principles, and methodology-specific guidance to support alignment with evolving climate ambition, empirical safeguards, and host country decarbonization pathways.