Gold Standard for the Global Goals

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.

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Fraction of non-renewable biomass Version 2.0

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

Grid-connected renewables, storage and energy transition (G-RESET)

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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.

Energy Systems and Efficiency (ESE)

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

Green Hydrogen Production

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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.

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