Guidelines to assist project developers, partners and funders in communicating accurately and credibly about the benefits derived from Gold Standard projects. ...
Guidance for project developers, coordinating and managing entities (CMEs), and validation and verification bodies (VVBs) on extension of crediting period for land use, forestry and blue carbon activities. This document entails requirements to extend the crediting period defined at the time of design certification and the procedure to be followed for the same. Extension of crediting period shall be considered ...
Requirements, timings and procedures to transition projects from previous version of Gold Standard to Gold Standard for the Global Goals (GS4GG). ...
Requirements for designing and implementing a Programme of Activity (PoA) – an 'umbrella' certification under which multiple projects may be developed. ...
Specific requirements for micro-scale projects – those projects with less than 10,000 tCO2e in annual emissions reductions. ...
The key principles, guidelines and procedures to be followed for projects seeking deviation from the Gold Standard for the Global Goals (GS4GG) requirements and SDG Impact Quantification Methodologies and/or applicable methodologies. ...
This document provides the requirements and approval procedures for project developers/CMEs seeking permanent changes to the implementation, operation and/or monitoring of a certified project activity/PoA. This document was formally included as Annex-A (Design Change Approval Procedure) of the Gold Standard Principles and Requirements (version 1.2 published October 2019). ...
The document provides the minimum requirements and procedures for Gold Standard Validation and Verification Bodies (GS VVBs) and Certification Bodies (CBs) to validate and verify standalone projects and Programmes of Activities (PoAs) that apply Gold Standard for the Global Goals and all earlier versions of the standard. ...
Requirements for physical site visits and the requirements and procedures for conducting audits using remote audit techniques exclusively or in combination with physical site visits. Applicable to standalone projects of all scales. ...
The Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Model Guidelines provide a comprehensive methodological framework for quantifying SOC stock changes in agricultural soils through modelling. The guidelines allows application of SOC models by following a standardized procedure, applicable to a range of models, instead of prescribing a specific model. These guidelines are complementary to the SOC Framework Methodology (SOC FM), and are to ...